Minor Ink Traumas
Nov. 11th, 2012 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiAdmittedly, if it's minor how much of a trauma could it be?
I was doing a bit of sorting and reorganizing of my ink collection this morning while breakfast was cooking and discovered that the Noodler's bottles are too tall to put in the box I wanted to move my bottles to. I went ahead and put all the other bottles in the new box and left the two Noodler's in the old one, but now I'm fussed because not all my bottles are in the same box. This despite the fact that the two inks in question--Lexington Gray and Turquoise--have been in continuous use since I got them and I will never ever forget that I own them.
In the process I discovered that my bottle of Organics Studio Mercury had gone bad. There's dried-on gunk on the outside of the jar-top, and when it's opened up the ink is sludgy-looking. This made me sad, as I had been looking forward to trying it. This just shows how far gone I've gone into inkphilia, because OS Mercury is a red ink and I already have a bottle of De Altramentis' Dante Alighieri, which means I have a red which is pleasant to look at, well behaved, and enough to last me for most of my natural life. But I wanted to see what Mercury was like!
I've decided to cheer myself up by inking the Serwex MB today; this will mean deciding on a color. What I should do is examine what colors I already have inked, decide on what color family needs some representation, sort through my samples to find members of that family, and then make a choice. What I'll probably really do is randomly paw through my boxes until I find a color/ink name that makes me go, "OOH, PRETTY" and use that. I'm fairly predictable that way.
I was doing a bit of sorting and reorganizing of my ink collection this morning while breakfast was cooking and discovered that the Noodler's bottles are too tall to put in the box I wanted to move my bottles to. I went ahead and put all the other bottles in the new box and left the two Noodler's in the old one, but now I'm fussed because not all my bottles are in the same box. This despite the fact that the two inks in question--Lexington Gray and Turquoise--have been in continuous use since I got them and I will never ever forget that I own them.
In the process I discovered that my bottle of Organics Studio Mercury had gone bad. There's dried-on gunk on the outside of the jar-top, and when it's opened up the ink is sludgy-looking. This made me sad, as I had been looking forward to trying it. This just shows how far gone I've gone into inkphilia, because OS Mercury is a red ink and I already have a bottle of De Altramentis' Dante Alighieri, which means I have a red which is pleasant to look at, well behaved, and enough to last me for most of my natural life. But I wanted to see what Mercury was like!
I've decided to cheer myself up by inking the Serwex MB today; this will mean deciding on a color. What I should do is examine what colors I already have inked, decide on what color family needs some representation, sort through my samples to find members of that family, and then make a choice. What I'll probably really do is randomly paw through my boxes until I find a color/ink name that makes me go, "OOH, PRETTY" and use that. I'm fairly predictable that way.
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Date: 2012-11-11 05:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-11 05:45 pm (UTC)(By the way, have you tried the Dante ink? Would you like a sample? I suspect it's not bloody enough to be your kind of red, and I don't think it's waterproof, but you might enjoy playing with it.)
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Date: 2012-11-11 07:50 pm (UTC)