Organics Studio - Edgar Allan Poe

**tannie** · September 12th, 2013, 08:02 AM

I recently received my bottle of Edgar Allan Poe ink, the one with the more fitting colour (bleh, green, bleh!)

It has good flow and looks best in a wetter nib. I put it in my TWSBi mini with F nib, and that looked fairly pink-ish. I already thought the mini wrote dry so I took the opportunity to make it a bit wetter, which worked out great. I don't have a pen inked with Diamine Oxblood at the moment, and you can't really tell much difference between the two from the photo, unfortunately. Oxblood does look more like blood (more brown / black) and Edgar leans more towards red wine (a friend said 'barolo'). Diamine Syrah on the other hands looks more pinkish, so I guess Edgar sits somewhere in between the two. I only now remember my sample of Diamine Merlot, I should have used that one too (maybe I will compare later...)

I like this colour a lot! It doesn't burn my eyes and writes well. It dries fast (not superfast, just fast) on my rhodia dotpad. It also scrubbed of my fingers easily, yay!
Very pleased with this ink!

**tandaina** · September 12th, 2013, 08:18 AM

Ooo, I like it!

**Feardorcha** · September 12th, 2013, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by tannie

It also scrubbed of my fingers easily, yay!
Very pleased with this ink!

Ink strains should be permanent, like a badge of honour.

Love the colour. Reminds me of the MB Burgundy but darker tones.

**jacksterp** · September 12th, 2013, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by tandaina

Ooo, I like it!

Couldn't have said it any better.

In fact, those were my exact words. (prior to seeing your post)

**earthdawn** · September 12th, 2013, 08:13 PM

Almost like a burgundy/black... I like that !

Nice review and thanks for sharing it with us.

**tannie** · September 14th, 2013, 02:21 PM

I did a water-test. I wrote one a small Rhodia pad (lined, 80gsm afaik, usually use it for shoppinglists) and then put it in the sink with the tap running on full for about 20 seconds (didn't time it exactly).

As you can see it didn't do very well, but not very bad either! Most of the colour washed away but you can still read it. Similar wash-out happened with the Elderberries and the Plum, also not disappointed with those. Trying to move away from strict waterproof inks