Recipe for choclote brown ink?

[Night Owl]

Hi everyone,

 

Unfortunately the supply of available inks here is very limited...

 

I have Waterman Florida Blue, Lamy Green, Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown and Waterman Black available...

 

Can anyone suggest a recipe using these inks that would give a rich chocolate brown?

 

The Pelikan is too reddish for my taste, and a bottle of Sheaffer Skrip Brown is almost identical to the Pelikan.

 

Thanks,

Les

[Etymology in Motion]

To mix brown you need 1/3 yellow, 2/3 red, and a drop of blue, or 2/3 orange and a drop of dark blue. White, gray, and black will lighten/darken the tone. The only premix brown I've found that isn't problematic is Rubinato's Inchiostro Liquirizia. Good luck.

[OldGriz]

Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Very Dark Gourmet Chocolate..

Recipes differ by desire...

[ZeissIkon]

If you have a commercial brown that's too red for your taste, adding a very small amount of green or cyan will darken the overall color and reduce the red character. Subject to the usual caveats for cross-brand mixing (let the mix stand 48 hours before inking in a pen, in case of coagulation or sedimentation), I'd suggest taking off a (known volume) vial of either brown and adding Lamy green, drop by drop (count the drops, so you can reproduce the mix) until you get a color you like (test on paper with a dip pen or dipped fountain pen, don't just look at the color in the container). You might like the result better with a little of the blue added as well; equal drop counts of green and blue will give something close to a cyan, which will dull the red more toward gray or black where green only will go more toward a sepia tone.

[robbyruby]

I made a great chocolate brown ink with Waterman Red and Noodler's Black. Based on what you have, try adding some of the WM Black to the Pelikan Brown you have described as too red. Mix a small amount & see what happens.

[jpr]

Open computer

go online

slowly ease out credit card

buy PR chocolat from online store

 

This recipe usually works for people like me

who are utterly useless in chemistry.

[DanF]

Best bet is to add a little green to the brown. Next best, add a little Blue. As has been suggested, very small quantities to start.

 

Dan

[BerneseMtDogEatsArco]

Sweet! My Havana brown is too red. I'll to the experiment with the MB racing green and the Aurora blue I have.

[DanF]

Sweet! My Havana brown is too red. I'll to the experiment with the MB racing green and the Aurora blue I have.

 

Careful, the Racing Green, being a pretty muted color to begin with, is liable to yield a muddy mix --- start with just about ten drops of brown, add your green one drop at a time, test after each drop. That way if the results are not pleasing, you are not out very much. Blue should darken it, more like bittersweet than milk chocolate.

[Carlitoes]

Ok so I tried this with a PR Copper Burst that I found too red. I mixed 15 drops of Copper Burst with 5 drops of PR Foam Green (also sitting unused since I didn't find the color too inspiring). The result was very close to J. Herbin Cafe des Iles, what I consider to be the ideal brown.

 

Now I can run out my faux-Cafe des Iles using my unused PR inks! Thanks for the tip!

[Chris]

When I was at school, I found that the more colours I mixed, the browner the paint got

 

Seriously, I have added some black to Pelikan brown for the same reason - too orange - but it just got darker. It seems as though a drop of green would have been helpful, but I'm not going to buy some green to save some brown that I rarely use anyway....

 

Buy Diamine Chocolate to use now and file the others for a rainy day when you can mix to your heart's content.

 

Chris

 

[richardandtracy]

My recipe?

 

100% Diamine Saddle Brown. Same colour as my 'Mars' Bar.

 

Regards,

 

Richard.