A list of Cyberscribes' Favorite Ink | |
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Walnut ink - the crystals that you can buy from Brenda at Paper and Ink. When I want ink for color, I use Ziller. Makes me happy 9 times out of 10 Kate McKulla _____________ Ink? Zillers for acrylics. Ground stick ink is wonderful. Best Ink. Gouache is wonderful, as is watercolor. Karen Ter Haar _____________ My big green plastic Chinese ink bottle gives me nice dense shiny black letters. Peggy Robinson, Calgary ______________ Best Bottle Ink! Debi Zeinert and Cindy Yount ______________ Ziller inks, having resisted them for so long as I didn't like the idea of my nibs being clogged up by waterproof ink. But they're so easy to clean, and the ink writes like a dream, and the colours are great! Lesley, England ______________ I like sumi a lot. Vermillion works better than black but is not as versatile. Sharon Kennedy ______________ Favorite "Inks": I love the Schminke gold and silver watercolor pans, and the Schminke (I love to say that name) Calligraphy Gouache in gold pearl. And just got some Turner Design gold orange from Paper and Ink. Gorgeous goldy orange with color variations like silk fabric. As to a black, I like the Best Bottle Ink. For white, Dr. Martin's Bleed Proof white is fantastic on colored papers and flows well through broad edged or pointy nibs. Nancy Grossenbacher, Portland ______________ Sumi ink named Best Ink in the brown bottle. Ruth Stern Warzecha, Toronto ______________ Best Bottle ink is good and also the walnut ink. Phyllis Wallace, Minnesota ______________ Walnut ink (made from German crystals, from Paper&Ink Arts) Carol DuBosch, Portland ______________ Walnut Ink Katherine Malmsten ______________ Chinese bottled ink, and Wendy Russell's "heritage ink" for my copperplate work. I also love "pearl-ex" powder for lending glister to my lettering. Max Broadway, Oz ______________ walnut ink and Iron Gall Ink from Blott's Bonnie Noehr, California ______________ Home made walnut ink from walnut hulls, Brian Walkers copperplate ink and the old formula of Zillers glossy black Angela Welch ______________ Best Bottle Ink for black Carol, NYC ______________ Inks etc: I like the walnut ink that Brenda sells, but most of all I love all the Spectralite airbrush colors. When spectralite doesn't have the color I'm looking for, I'll turn to the old reliable WN gouache. I also love the Pearl-X pigments, especially on dark paper. Donna Whitman, Vermont ______________ Sumi stick or bottled, Dr. Martin's Bleedproof white, walnut ink from crystals Victoria Kibildis, Florida ______________ I love working with the Pearlescent inks and the Calli inks,( by Daler Rowney) Margaret of Venice ______________ sumi ink Jill Bell ______________ walnut, oak gall, stick ink (ground by me) and Quink Black Fountain pen ink, more of that anon. Viva Lloyd, Surrey ______________ my favorite sumi ink stick that came from Japan via a Japanese student and has no English identifying info on it. Elissa Barr ______________ Best Bottle Victoria Pittman ______________ Japanese Sumi ink - usually from an Asian supply store I find when travelling. NOT the stuff in the green bottle! For fine work I use Chinese stick ink. Jacqueline Sullivan ______________ Chinese stick, black, and my bottled walnut ink. I need to try the crystals of the later, though, as they sound especially good for travel. Katy in Seattle | |