Mystery Inks #48, #49, and #50 !!

[LizEF]

#48 on Tomoe River Paper with a fude.
Funny how the ink darkened in the feed but with a bit of priming the colour returned to normal...

I found the same thing - today when I started writing with the review pen, the ink seemed a lot darker and browner, but quickly thinned back out - I think it wasn't evaporation so much as feed saturation that quickly got used up since the ink is so dry...

[countrydirt]

Wow! I have ONE piece of purchased artwork in my house - A pen and ink drawing of Don Quixote tilting at windmills - and I must confess that the purchase of the drawing caused me to purchase the book and I am still reading and re-reading it. Perhaps one of the best stories ever! I thought the ink had a very "vintage" feel, but with this backstory, I really dig the vintage appearance. Glad I have it in a miserly, yet wet, Lamy 2000. I'll get a few more pages out of it.

But what this little foray into the mystery inks has done for me is it has helped me to get re-acquainted with some pens I have neglected and I have written more in my journals over the past few weeks than I have in months!

Thank you for allowing me to play along! This has been so fun for me!

[Yazeh]

@countrydirt, did the colour of your artwork correspond in anyway to the ink?

@junglejim, how did you find the Don Quixote ink? Was it a happy discovery, or not so?

[junglejim]

@countrydirt, did the colour of your artwork correspond in anyway to the ink?

@junglejim, how did you find the Don Quixote ink? Was it a happy discovery, or not so?

I vaguely remember seeing about Wearingeul Inks in one of the email blurbs Dromgooles sends out. It was about the new Author Series (Bram Stoker, Shakespeare, etc.) and was about 2/3 of the way down in the email, along with lots of pens I wasn't interested in or couldn't afford. [ Now NEWER, BIGGER, PRETTIER and with a cap you can chew on that tastes like gummibears (Patent Pending).]

[mreeveshp]

Thank you junglejim for the opportunity to try these very interesting inks and as always for your gracious generosity in hosting these mystery inks.

And now I have another book added to my list to read. MI 48 probably would have been my favorite if it wasn't quite as light, I can deal with a slightly drier ink but just wish it was more saturated but I got to try Wearingeuls which I had only heard about in a couple blogs. Then just a few weeks ago I saw a blog post about R&K sepia but seeing it in person was way off what I would have expected from the swabs on that post, either way a very interesting ink where at least for me I saw grey to brown to almost black.

Thank you again junglejim

Thanks
mreeveshp

[Sailor Kenshin]

Probably the most intriguing MI ever. Thanks, junglejim!

[countrydirt]

@countrydirt, did the colour of your artwork correspond in anyway to the ink?

@junglejim, how did you find the Don Quixote ink? Was it a happy discovery, or not so?

Not at all.




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[LizEF]

Almost forgot that I meant to add all of my review except the story part to this thread. Here it is:

The review:



The zoom:



The absorbent paper (puzzle paper on top, copy paper on bottom):

[Yazeh]

What happened to our preview of latest adventures of the fellowship of ink? (QME)?

[LizEF]

What happened to our preview of latest adventures of the fellowship of ink? (QME)?

I did say I was leaving that out. You'll just have to wait until 18 April and read that part of the story when we get to it!

[DrPenfection]

Thank you all for your fantastic evaluations of these three inks. I have enjoyed this thread immensely. Being a lifelong Cervantes fan, I enjoyed your critique of the Wearingui ink.

And thank you, junglejim, for hosting this great thread!

ps: let me know if you need more vials. I have over 100 of new ones that I have used and likely won't use anytime in the near future.

[junglejim]

Thank-you for the very kind offer DrPenfection, but I now have another 10 packets of new sample vials from a different pen store.

All the Best.