Goulet Pen's September Ink Drop - The Maze

For the September Ink Drop from the Goulet Pen Company I decided to draw a five page maze. I drew five pages because I liked the colors so much. The following scans make up this maze.

Start on the page labeled '1' (in the bottom left hand corner) at the circle labeled 'Start'. Follow the pathways until you arrive at one of the circles labeled '2B', '3A', or '3B'. Then go to the page with the number of your circle. Look for the circle on the new page with the same number and letter as your circle. ex. If you arrived at the circle labeled '3A', go to page 3 and continue from the circle labeled '3A'. From this new circle, follow the pathways until you get to another circle, and so on. The goal is to get to the circle on page 5 which is labeled 'End'.

That's all there is to it. Simple. Well, okay, it is a little bit more difficult than the August Ink Drop maze.

So here are the pages.

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page4

Page 5

If you succeeded in solving this maze, you might want a bigger challenge. Maybe the 90 page maze and contest posted here will fit the bill. There is still time to enter.

That it for this month.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's September 2011 Ink Drop - Part 6

For the fifth and final page of my September Ink Drop I paired Private Reserve Sherwood Green and Waterman Florida Blue. This was another great combination. The colors look very good together, so the maze looks pretty cool. Here is what it looks like:

As I said in the previous post, the Sherwood Green surprised me because it turned out to behave very well. In the past I had used it in a cheap notebook and it performed worst than any ink I have ever used. On the Clairefontaine paper that I draw the ink drop mazes on it worked great. So make sure you use a good fountain pen friendly paper for this ink. I really like the bright green color.

The Waterman Florida Blue is a new ink to me. I used it in my Ducati Limited and I found that the line it produced was inconsistent. The line varies from a fairly pale blue to a good medium blue. I always use a Fine nib and so I don't really see a lot of shading with most inks. With the Florida Blue I think a broader nib would show quite a bit of shading. The ink dries quickly though. I had no smearing or smudging. There are so many blue inks on the market that there are herds of medium blues that are as good or better, in my opinion.

Here is what the maze looks like laid out in one place.

I will be posting the scanned pages in a couple of days so that you can take a crack at solving it. I'm quite pleased that after I put the node labels in at random, it turned out to produce an interesting maze right off. I didn't need to make any edits.

That's it for today.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's September 2011 Ink Drop - Part 5

For the fourth page of the September Ink Drop maze I paired Noodler's North African Violet with Private Reserve Sherwood Green. This was a great combination. I really like the way the two colors go together. I talked about the North African Violet in my last post. In short, it is a very good ink and color which dries quickly.

In the past I had a bad experience with Private Reserve Sherwood Green and I wasn't looking forward to using it. My previous experience with it was with cheap notebook paper. The paper just soaked up the ink like a sponge and the line was uncontrollable. I did an page of my third maze with it and it turned out terrible. On the Clairefontaine paper Sherwood Green was a totally different ink. True, it still took a longer time to dry than any of the other inks, but the line was crisp. The color is a good bright green, like the Oakland A's green. My opinion of this ink has changed 180 degrees. The paper makes the difference.

Here is a picture of the fourth page of the maze with the two Lamy Safari pens I used. There is a subtle difference to this page. It is drawn counter clockwise unlike most of my mazes. You might find that you get dizzier than usual. I know I did.

That's it for today.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's September 2011 Ink Drop - Part 4

I liked the Diamine Monaco Red and the Noodler's North African Violet well enough that I used them to draw the third page of this month's maze. Both ink worked very well and gave no problems. Here is a picture of the resulting page of the maze. The pens I used are alongside it.

Yesterday I finished my fifth big maze. I took an hour break , but I felt lost and confused without a big project in progress. Now things are back to normal because I started my sixth maze.

Anyway, that's it for today.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's September 2011 Ink Drop - Part 3

The samples in Goulet Pen Company's September Ink Drop all have a travel destination in their name. For the second page of this month's test maze I paired the Caran d'Ache Grand Canyon with Noodler's North African Violet. As I mentioned in my last post I was recently at the Grand Canyon, but I've never actually been in North Africa. I've seen a very small part of it while passing through the Strait of Gibraltar. It was pretty cool to see two continents at the same time.

As I said before the Caran d'Ache is a great ink. I really like the color because it is a neutral brown. It shows off other colors very well. It is a very well behaved ink that dries quickly. Can you tell that I like it?

The Noodler's North African Violet is also a well behaved ink. It also dries quickly. I experienced no smudging or smearing on the two pages I used it on. It is a bright purplish ink, not really as reddish as I would have expected. It worked very well in the Lamy Safari with an Extra Fine nib. The shading wasn't really noticeably with such a fine nib.

Here is a picture of the second page of the maze. The Pilot Vanishing Point and the Lamy Safari that I used are there beside the maze.

By the way, I've done all of the line work for this month's maze, but I haven't put in the node numbers or solved it yet. I'll get on that soon. It is a five page maze. I think it will be fun.

That's it for today.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's September 2011 Ink Drop - Part 2

All five of the ink samples in Goulet Pen Company's September Ink Drop have a travel destination in their name. For the first page of this month's test maze I decided to pair up Diamine Monaco Red and Caran d' Ache Grand Canyon Brown. While Monaco is a place I'm very unlikely to every make it to (unless I get very rich from selling mazes for thousands of dollars per page), I actually visited the Grand Canyon last summer.

The Monaco Red is a good red. When I think Monaco I think of the Formula One race there, and when I think of Formula One, I think of Ferrari. The Diamine Monaco Red is not Ferrari red. It leans a bit too much to the pink instead of the passionate scarlet red of Ferrari. Still it is a very good ink. It dries quickly. I didn't have any smudging or smearing.

The Caran d'Ache Grand Canyon Brown is also very good. I like this brown because it is a neutral brown. I used it in two pages of this month's maze and in both cases it really works well with the color it was paired with. It also dries very quickly and is easy to work with. It is the color of wet sand, or the color of fair skin under a sun hat. It would make a handy brown for art work. But maybe not for signing legal paperwork.

Here is a picture of the first page of the maze along with the two Pilot Vanishing Points I used to draw it.

Here is a picture of me at the Grand Canyon last year. I really didn't have a chance to look at the view, because I was working on my fourth maze. I heard that it was impressive though.

Here is a picture of the actual canyon. Wow, it is big! I'll have to go back and take a look at it.  The Caran d'Ache Grand Canyon would work great to sketch this.

That's it for today.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's September 2011 Ink Drop - Part 1

There was a time, and some of you out there are old enough to remember it, that a student had to do a rough draft of an essay, with a pen or pencil on paper, before typing up a final draft to turn in. There were no word processing programs that checked our grammar and spelling. If we made a mistake on our final draft, we had to use correction fluid, line up the paper and try to type over the mistake. It was brutal, but it toughened the student up to face the real world. It is difficult to imagine those days now.

It is also difficult to imagine a world without Goulet Pen Company's Ink Drop Club. Until last year around this time members had nothing to look forward to. The future was a blank, barren and desolate. Now members can look forward to receiving samples of cool inks to try out every month without fail, regular as clockwork. It provides joy and purpose in life.

Therefore it is fitting that Brian and Rachel Goulet celebrate the one year anniversary of the Ink Drop Club with a great package. Along with the samples, they have included a small, but handy Clairefontaine notebook perfect for jotting down brilliant ideas or tedious to do lists. The Clairefontaine paper is perfect for use with fountain pens and ink. It is a nice bonus, but as usual the ink samples are the real treat.

The theme for the month is “Inkiversary Travels”. All of the samples have in their name a travel destination. Here they are:

Caran d'Ache Grand Canyon

Diamine Monaco Red

Noodler's North African Violet

Private Reserve Sherwood Green

Waterman Florida Blue

It looks like a great selection of colors to me. I'm getting off to a late start this month because it took so long to run the ink from last month out of my pens. Besides the Ink Drop maze, I managed to draw twenty pages of my fifth maze with the August inks. The Lamy pens are long range pens!

Here is a picture of the September Ink Drop.

You can join the Ink Drop Club here.

That's it for today!

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's August 2011 Ink Drop - Finale

The Noodler's Blue Nose Bear ink that was one of the samples in the August Ink Drop from Goulet Pen Company is suppose to react to UV light. The card that came with the samples says to use it on ivory paper for the best effect. Unfortunately I don't use anything except bright white paper because I want to see the colors of the inks and I think white paper does shows them best.

But I do have a notebook that has some off white paper. It is the one I use for my flight log. I'm not a pilot, but I play one in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Here is what the log book looks like. I write kind of small.

So I drew a very simple one page page to test the Noodler's Blue Nose Bear. With the paper in this notebook I did notice some feathering and a little bleeding of the ink. This is to be expected with paper not designed for fountain pens. Yous can see the blue halo effect where the word 'Start” is in this picture.

Now here is the page under UV light. The picture is not the best. In real life you can make out a little reaction, but not much. It seems to be mainly the light blue halo part of the light that reacts. The scotch tape reacts more than the ink. I'm guessing that the effect would be more pronounced using a Board nib instead of a Fine one.

For those of you who want a simple maze, here is the scanned and lightly edited version.

Now I'm ready for next month's Ink Drop. If you are interested in recieving sample ink you can join the Ink Drop here.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's August 2011 Ink Drop - The Maze

For the August Ink Drop from the Goulet Pen Company I decided to draw a four page maze. The following scans make up this maze. Start on the page labeled '1' (in the bottom left hand corner) at the circle labeled 'Start'. Follow the pathways until you arrive at one of the circles labeled '2A', '3A', or '2C'. Then go to the page with the number of your circle. Look for the circle on the new page with the same number and letter as your circle. From this new circle, follow the pathways until you get to another circle, and so on. The goal is to get to the circle on page 4 which is labeled 'End'.

That's all there is to it. Simple.

So here are the pages.

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

I hope that you enjoy the journey!

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's August 2011 Ink Drop - Part 5

Sailor Jentle Epinard was the last ink to be tested from the August Ink Drop. I loaded it into a Pilot Vanishing Point, the same one that I used for the Noodler's Blue Nose Bear. I paired it with Waterman Havana Brown for the maze, which I have already talked about.

Epinard is French for spinach (you know the French have a different word for everything). You would expect this ink to be very deep green and so it is. I don't know if it is as dark as spinach. I don't eat as much spinach as I use to when I was younger. They tell me that when I was 1 year old I went through a stage where spinach was the only thing I ate. So it was probably spinach that I was eating that afternoon while sitting in my high chair in the kitchen and the clothes washing machine attacked me. Well it tried to attack me. It had become off balance enough that it was rocking from side to side so much that it was swaggering menacingly towards me. Yes it was frightening and I avoid doing laundry as much as possible even to this day.

Nevertheless, the Sailor Jentle Epinard was a pleasant ink to use. It took a little longer to dry than the other inks in this month's sample. I had a couple small smears while drawing the test maze, but none on the two other pages I used it on. It seems to me that there is an olive tint to this green. It is a perfectly good ink, especially for those times that you are coloring in a Popeye cartoon. And there are probably several other times a good green ink will come in handy.

So I hope this quick review will be helpful. It is unlikely, but you never know. Here is a picture of the last page of this month's maze along with the pens I used.

I've been even more lazy than usual, so I still haven't scanned in the maze yet. I'll post the whole thing in a few days though.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's August 2011 Ink Drop - Part 4

Next up for testing from the August Ink Drop is Waterman Havana Brown. This is a very fine brown a little to the red side. I put it in one of my new Lamy Safaris which has an Extra Fine nib on it. This combination worked very well. The ink flows smoothly and is a bit wet, but it dries quick enough that even clumsy as I am, I had no smearing or smudging. This ink reminds be of the “Mud Slinging” Ink Drop from way back in December which was all browns. Just where on the brown scale this ink fits, I can't say. It became clear that it is reddish  when I saw the Montegrappa Bordeaux alongside it.

The ink that I paired with the Waterman was Montegrappa Bordeaux. I talked about this ink in the previous Ink Drop post. Before starting to draw with this ink I imagined that there would be a definite difference between these two inks. As you can see in the picture there is not much difference at all. I was surprised. It is true that the Bordeaux brings out the red in the Havana Brown and the Brown brings out the brown in the Bordeaux. You must peer very closely to see where one ink ends and the other begins. No doubt if I was using broader nibs the difference would be more prononced.

In the picture the Waterman Havana Brown forms the entry nodes labeled 3A, 3B and 3C and the paths immediately surrounding them. The Montegrappa Bordeaux was used for the outer layers. The two pens that I used are there as well.

This page is not a maze by itself. It is but one page of a four page maze. You need all four pages for it to make sense. I will be posting the entire maze in about a week.

That's it for today.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's August 2011 Ink Drop - Part 3

For the second page of my test maze that I'm drawing for the August Ink Drop I paired Noodler's Blue Nose Bear with Montegrappa Bordeaux. The Blue Nose Bear was already in one of my Pilot Vanishing Point pens, but the Montegrappa I decided to use in my Ducati Limited. An Italian ink in an Italian pen.

I already talked about the Blue Nose Bear in a previous post, but I will restate that used in a Fine nib on good fountain pen paper I had zero problems with bleeding or feathering. According to what I have read in reviews this can be an issue with larger nibs and different paper. This was actually one of Noodler's better behaved inks for my pens and paper because it dried quickly. Paired with the Bordeaux the Blue Nose Bear looks very much greener than it did with the Aurora Black.

The Montegrappa Bordeaux is a deep rose color. At first it seemed slightly wet and watery to me, but that feeling went away as I used it. There was definite shading even with a Fine nib and I would imagine that it would look great with a Broad nib. This ink took a little longer to dry than the Blue Nose Bear and as a result I had a couple smudges on the drawing. It is not a problem really, you just have to be careful where you rest you hand.

Montegrappa makes some amazing limited edition pens that cost an arm and leg to buy. Here is their site so that you can take a peek. I'm sure they are worth it, as long as they don't take my right arm. Even the production models are on the pricey side. Maybe someday I will win the Lottery and buy one of each. Until then I will have to be satisfied with the ink which is in my price range. With the Ink Drop discount I get for being a member of the club it is quite reasonable.

Anyway, here is what this page of the maze looks like with the pens I used beside it.

I will post a scanned and edited version of it after I finish constructing the entire maze.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's August 2011 Ink Drop - Part 2

The August Ink Drop from Goulet Pen Company is entitled “New Kids on the Block” and features inks that are either new to the market or new to the Goulet Pen inventory. They are all new to me, so I've been having a great deal of fun trying them out.

For my first test maze I paired Noodler's Blue Nose Bear with Aurora Black, both in Pilot Vanishing Point pens. These inks are very different in the quality of line they put down. From the sound of that you might think that one ink produced a “better” line than the other, but that is not what I mean.

The Aurora Black is a true black ink. It is the blackest ink that I have ever used. On the Clairefontaine paper it was a true matter of Black and White. It very crisp. It would be a great ink to use for pen and ink sketching. Or inking in a comic strip. It dried very quick and I only had one small smudge on the three pages of maze that I have used it on. It is defintely a serious ink. If you are writing a letter to the editor or to your congress person and are not the type to use a canyon, you couldn't do better than this ink.

The Noodler's Blue Nose Bear is the latest ink in the “Black Swan” series that Nathan at Noodler's is creating. The series inks are concocted to have pronounced shading. Since I almost always use pens with Fine or Extra Fine nibs I don't take advantages of this shading feature. The Blue Nose Bear does produce a very soft line. This is what I mean by saying it is a different quality line. While the Aurora Black produces a snappy crisp line, the Blue Nose Bear has a soft nostalgic look. This softness may be caused by a design feature of the ink that produces a “Halo Effect”. On the Clairefontaine paper I didn't see the feathering I have read about online. Of course that is using fountain pen paper and a Fine nib pen.

Actually I was much happier with Blue Nose Bear than with Black Swan in English Roses. This is because the English Roses took forever to dry. It was a mess to use in drawing my mazes. The Blue Nose Bear behaves beautifully. It has not smudged or smeared at all in the five pages of maze I have used it on. The color is a bit odd and maybe not the best for a romantic epistle. For a letter full of nostalgic reminisces the soft focus line would work great.

Here is the first page of a planned four page maze.

Here it is again alongside one of the pages of my current big maze that uses the same inks.

That's it for today.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's August 2011 Ink Drop - Part 1

The theme for the August Ink Drop is “New Kids on the Block”. As the name implies the inks featured are ones that are new in one way or another. Some are new to the market and some are new to the Goulet Pen Company. For me personally, these inks are all new. Three of the brands are ones I have never tried. So I am looking forward to learning a lot about them.

The inks in the August Ink Drop are:

Aurora Black

Montegrappa Bordeaux

Noolder's Blue Nose Bear

Sailor Jentle Epinard

Waterman Havana Brown

Here are the samples lined up and ready for action. As usual Brian and Rachel Goulet have put together an interesting package.

For my tests I thought I'd do another multiple page maze. It will probably end up being four pages long, but I might get carried away by the color combinations this Ink Drop makes possible.

Anyway, that's it for now.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's July 2011 Ink Drop - Part 4

For my last test maze of the July Ink Drop samples from the Goulet Pen Company I paired up two of the inks I have used in the previous mazes. These are Noodler's Dragon Catfish Green and Noodler's Firefly. I have been having great fun with these inks because they react under UV light. They can be used for their designed purpose of highlighting I suppose. That is if you are the kind of person that does that sort of thing. The main thing is that all of the inks in this month's ink drop are great inks. They dry quickly and work well in all of my pens.

Here is a picture of the maze with the Ducati Limited pen and the Noodler's fountain pen I used with these two inks.

Here is what it looks like in Blacklight. This was drawn on bright white paper from Clairefontaine. Such bright white paper really reacts to the UV light too, so I guess I should have tried an off-white paper.

Here is a scanned and edited version for solving.

My hat is off to Brian and Rachel Goulet for a very fun Ink Drop.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's July 2011 Ink Drop - Part 3

For my second test maze for the July Ink Drop I used Noodler's Dragon Catfish Pink in a Noodler's fountain pen and paired it with the Noodler's Firefly in another Noodler's fountain. Here is a picture of the resulting maze.

Both of these inks were very well behaved. They dry very quickly so I had no smudging or smearing problems. Both inks are highlighter inks so they are suppose to be relatively faint on the page. After all, they are not suppose to block out a printed passage, just highlight it. The Firefly looks very intense as it comes out of the ink. It looks as if you are drawing a line with pure fire or something. After is dries it is less intense and is very faint. It may not really show up enough to be a good at highlighting. It is however very reactive to UV light. It is very bright under blacklight.

I found a better blacklight at Spenser's Gifts at the Valley Fair Mall. They were 19.95 each and buy one get another for half price. It is a good place to go for your party lighting needs and also if you are into toilet humor. Anyway, here is the maze under UV light.

Here is the scanned and edited version of the same maze. These inks work much better than I thought they would for maze drawing. I'm totally grooving on the sixties vibe they give.

Until next time.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's July 2011 Ink Drop - Part 2

The July Ink Drop from Goulet Pen Company is one that features inks used in highlighter pens. The remarkable thing about these particular inks made by Noodler's Inks is that they react to UV light. Just like the blacklight posters those of us of a certain age remember, or don't remember depending on the amount of smoke you consumed, these inks glow in the darkness of UV light.

The ink drop came with a very cool UV flashlight which can be used to produce this effect with the ink samples, but I wanted to get a bigger light so that I could sit back a contemplate the groovy glow. So I took a short trip to a local Head Shop. This shop is a relic of the seventies which is across the street from a very good Art Supply store called University Arts. I can't recall the name of the Head Shop. It sells all things needed to partake of that culture characterized by the phrase, “Hey man.” Sometimes this phrase is shortened to. “Dude.” This can be used as a response to any conceivable utterance.

Anyway, I looked around at the posters, Tie-died T-shirts, beads, pipes, inscent sticks and burners, buttons, patches, and sandals in the dimly lit shop. Finally I resorted to asking the dude at the counter if they sold blacklights. He wandered through a maze of counters, racks and more counters to the other side of the shop and took up a small box from a pile of other small boxes. It was a 75 watt black light bulb. Perfect I thought. Actually, not so perfect. For when I got it home and screwed it into one of my desk lamps it was a dud. “Dude”, I said, “It's a dud.”

So the photo posted here was taken with the light from the ink drop flashlight. This is the test maze glowing in its light.

Here is the test maze in normal light.

It was drawn using the Dragon Catfish Green and the Dragon Catfish Pink. These Noodler's inks behaved very well. They dried quite quickly as they should for their designed purpose of highlighting. The maze turned out better than I thought it would. Both of these inks contrast enough with the white paper to be easily seen. For the maze I used the inks in a Noodler's Fountain pen and a Ducati Limited. The pens worked well in both of these pens.

Here is the scanned and lightly edited version of the maze.

I'll have another test maze later.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's July 2011 Ink Drop - Part 1

For their July Ink Drop Brian and Rachel Goulet came up with an unusual theme. It is “Flashlight Tag”. The ink samples in this drop share the property of reacting to Ultra Violet light. All of the samples are made by Noodler's. They are highlighter inks, well at least three of the four are. I'm not sure what the Blue Ghost ink is used for except for black light poster making, unless you happen to be a spy and need to write secret messages with an invisible ink . For our fun and enjoyment they included a refillable highlighter pen and a blub to use in refilling it. These are very cool. And most cool of all, a mini UV flashlight so that you can light up your inks. Hence, the name Flashlight Fun. This Ink Drop is absolutely brilliant!!!

The ink samples are:

Noodler's Blue Ghost

Noodler's Dragon Catfish Green

Noodler's Dragon Catfish Pink

Noodler's Firefly

So this is what it looks like. You can see the four ink samples, a highlighter pen, a blub for refilling and a little flashlight.

Now I will confess that I was at a loss as to what to do with these inks at first. Then I realized that I could at least use them for their designed propose of highlighting. Soon I will begin posting my second maze which I needed to check to make sure that the solution was correct. So I spent more hours than I want to tell you tracing out the solution path of this 90 page maze. It is a good thing I checked, because I had made a mistake when I put it together last year. It was fairly easy to correct, but I had spent quite a long time on the wrong path.

Here is sample page of this maze where I used Noodler's Dragon Catfish Green in the included pen to trace out my path. Is this part of the solution? Or part of the wrong detour? I'm not telling!

Last year when I was editing and solving I used a colored pencil to do the work and the same page of this maze looked like this.

Anyway this is the rather pedestrian use of these highlighter inks and it is rather boring. Maybe not as boring as highlighting important passages in your economics textbook, but pretty close. The highlighter ink works better than the colored pencil, but of course it is ink, so you need to look ahead before you draw. Next I want grow my hair long and let my beard grow, put on some ELP or Pink Floyd and see what my mazes look in black light.

Until next time!

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's June 2011 Ink Drop - Finale

The last sample to test from the June Ink Drop was the Pilot Iroshizuku Asa-gao. I saved this ink for last because it is the priciest of the bunch. The thought of trying this ink in one of Noodler's 14 dollar fountain pens intrigued me even though I would normally use it in one of my Pilot Vanishing Point pens. So I inked up one of my Noodler's pens with this upscale ink and used it to draw my final June test maze.

I paired the Asa-gao with the Noodler's Nightshade in my other Noodler's pen. Here is the real life version of the resulting maze.

As you can see there was plenty of smudging, smears and messes to screw up the work. The biggest blotch happened on the left hand side of the maze when the pen spilled out a huge drop of the Asa-gao. Up to that point the pen and ink had done fairly well. Let's be frank. The Noodler's pens have problems and are not ideally suited for precise work. The nib is relatively large and nail-like which makes it difficult to pick up a line for a continuation. The line varies in width quite a bit which can be a plus, but not for the mazes. But they are inexpensive and adequate for normal writing. Ink evaporates from the pen quite quickly, though this can be slowed by taping over the hole in the side of the cap.

Still it was surprising and disappointing to see a blob of ink spill from the pen. The cause, I believe, was an accidental twist of the knob on the end of the pen which forced too much ink to the nib. It was probably my fault.

The Pilot Iroshizuku is a great ink though. The color is a bold bright blue reminding me a bit of the Bay State Blue. It is better behaved than that blue. It shades a little even with this smallish nib. It dries quickly as well which I like. If I were a rich man, I'd buy it and all of the Pilot Iroshizuku colors. Sadly … that will have to wait.

Here is the scanned and edited version for solving.

Well, that do it for the June Ink Drop. I have a couple of days before the July Ink Drop drops in.

Jonathan

Goulet Pen's June 2011 Ink Drop - Part 4

The third test maze for the June Ink Drop paired the same Sailor Jentle Sky High with the Private Reserve Midnight Blues. The Sky High was still in my Ducati pen and I put the Midnight Blues in one of my Noodler's Fountain pens. Again I did a checkboard sort of pattern with the colors. There is just enough difference between the two inks for it to show up.

I have already discussed the Sky High which I like very much. The Midnight Blues is a rich blue. This sample is a Fast Dry version of the regular Midnight Blues. That said, it still takes a little while to dry. Long enough that I managed to smudge it in a few place, but I have a natural talent for doing that sort of thing anyway.

Here is what the maze looks like in real life with the pens beside it.

Here is the scanned and edited version for solving.

That's it for the day.

Jonathan