Periwinkle ink?

[ribbit]

Hi. Does anyone know of a periwinkle ink? I know J. Herbin has an ink sometimes translated as periwinkle but haven't seen it IRL. I'm looking for a color somewhere in this range:

 

Fiestaware Periwinkle:

 

http://tinyurl.com/2rp7l4

 

This diaper pail line (scroll down):

 

http://www.wahmies.com/pages/liners.php

 

 

Actually, I'd really love two inks: one that matches the fiestaware and one that matches the diaper. I'm guesses ink mixing is in my future. Any ideas from you ink mixing gurus?

 

Cornflower blue ink would be nice as well

 

Thanks!

[skipwilliams]

A couple of ideas that come to mind below. Most inks will be too dark, IME, than the ones you describe.

 

PR Daphne Blue - one of the pastel colors along with Purple Haze and Foam Green

Noodlers Dostoevsky - A new Russian Eternal ink available at Pendemonium

 

Even those two might be too bright for you and require "modification".

 

Skip

 

[Zarble44]

The Dostoevsky is very definitely in the turquoise group. I'm not sure if you could "mix" out the turquoise-y part.

I always thought periwinkle was more a sort of light blue / lavender range.

 

Good luck

[OboeJuan]

Hi. I wonder if this would be a good use of the new Noodlers "Whiteness of the Whale" ink? I thought I had read that it would be good for lightening inks. Maybe someone who has bought it could chime in here.

 

Also, I accidentally watered down some Dupont Royal Blue and came up with what I think was very close to the periwinkle. I'll see if I can find the page I wrote with it for a scan.

 

Kath

[OldGriz]

Hi. I wonder if this would be a good use of the new Noodlers "Whiteness of the Whale" ink? I thought I had read that it would be good for lightening inks. Maybe someone who has bought it could chime in here.

 

Also, I accidentally watered down some Dupont Royal Blue and came up with what I think was very close to the periwinkle. I'll see if I can find the page I wrote with it for a scan.

 

Kath

 

I have to agree about the possibility of the new Noodlers "Whiteness of the Whale". Possibly mixed with Noodler Navajo Turquoise (which has no green that I can see) or maybe Waterman South Seas Blue....

I don't think it would take much of the new ink to turn either of the blues to a periwinkle...

[encephalartos]

Hi. I wonder if this would be a good use of the new Noodlers "Whiteness of the Whale" ink? I thought I had read that it would be good for lightening inks. Maybe someone who has bought it could chime in here.

 

Also, I accidentally watered down some Dupont Royal Blue and came up with what I think was very close to the periwinkle. I'll see if I can find the page I wrote with it for a scan.

 

Kath

 

I have to agree about the possibility of the new Noodlers "Whiteness of the Whale". Possibly mixed with Noodler Navajo Turquoise (which has no green that I can see) or maybe Waterman South Seas Blue....

I don't think it would take much of the new ink to turn either of the blues to a periwinkle...

 

I think the diaper pail sample, at least on the monitor I looked at, was a lot like Noodlers

Pasternak, not Dostoevsky. The Pasternak is bluish on the lavender side, which is

more like Periwinkle. The color Dostoevsky has green in it and is like darker version

of Diamine Steel Blue to me. You might be looking for a lighter version of Diamine

Sapphire, which is a reddish blue (or you could say it has purple in it.)

 

If you started mixing with the Dostoevsky, then you'd first have to counteract the

green by adding something reddish, which would grey the color, too. On the Fiesta

Ware sample, the color looked more greyed to me, but that could be reproduction

or monitor issues.

[pengoddess]

Nathan and I have worked off and on on trying to come up with a periwinkle ink. Actually Nathan worked on it and I critqued since periwinkle is a strange color! A mix of blue, lavender and grey and really hard to replicate so it looks good on paper. It's a popular color for wedding invitations these days and trying to find a match to the printing ink used just isn't happening in the the FP ink world right now! Herbin Bleu Myosotis does so-so on envelopes to match because the writing isn't right next to the printing, but it's still not really periwinkle.

 

Sam

[jbb]

I think you could get a good periwinkle color using Whiteness of the Whale. I've been testing it in several mixtures. My concern is that three of the four pens I'm trying it in seem to be clogging since I added it to the mix. I have to keep rinsing their nibs to start them back up. Is anyone else experiencing that?

[jbb]

Here's some light blue ink I made by adding Whiteness of the Whale to an old blue ink cartridge.

[ribbit]

Thanks for the replies.

 

PR Daphne Blue is a pastel?!? It looks...vivid...on all the swatches I've seen. I really wish there was somewhere to see inks IRL near me.

 

 

If Nathan can't come up with a good periwinkle, I doubt that I can. I think I'll have to content myself with mixing Whiteness of the the Whale with various blue-purples to make my own light blue and maybe try J. herbin bleu myosotis on its own.

[ribbit]

Here's some light blue ink I made by adding Whiteness of the Whale to an old blue ink cartridge.

 

Pretty!

[Anne-Sophie]

Periwinkle suggestion.

 

Herbin violette pensee + gris nuage + a dash of waterman florida blue or lamy blue or pelikan blue

 

I would think starting with violette pensee and add gris nuage little by little to make it more mauve then one or maybe two drop of blue ink to get periwinkle.

 

But Bleu Pervenche translates as Periwinkle but I think it a nice blue but not grey enough and

using it as a base, adding a dash of violette pensee and gris nuage to it would make it perfect

Edited August 23, 2007 by Anne-Sophie

[J English Smith]

After a flush, I was just restarting one of my Parker Sonnets with PR Tanzanite (blue) ink. As it comes back from a water flush of the nib, the color as diluted is very much a periwinkle blue. I wonder if you could dilute it and get the color you are looking for...?