Hi all,

I'd like to briefly introduce myself since I am new here. I'm MeKenzie, an artist, with over 15 years of experiences with digital medium and recently expanded my field in traditional mediums, oil painting in particular. I like to experiment with everything so you'll see me jumping all over the places with different mediums.

This is my very first post on steemit. To be honest, I have been struggling with what to start as my first post here, then decided to start with ink review with some art I did. I can always improvise from there (please feel free to help me with that).

Before I go ahead, I want to give you a head up so you know what to expect, my main focus is to make high-quality art-related posts so it'll definitely be quality over quantity here. I'm not really a wordy-type person to start with so expect a lot of images. 😉

Here we go ----

Private Reserve Ink Sepia Review

A fantastic yellow-orange-brown ink with high shading capability for fountain pen use. I'm so in love with its high shading!

I did a review sheet on a print paper to show you what it can do:

Keep this in mind-

This ink is super dry by default. I had to tweak it just to get it to work with my Noodler's Creaper pen by adding 1-2 drops of dish soap and some water. Why water? Well, I tried to just use dish soap in my first round, it helped to make it wetter, but it kept on clogging my pen because of how sticky the ink was - water seems to help eliminate it, not 100%, but it definitely made it a lot more bearable. Using distilled water is recommended, I didn't have that around.

Of course, this ink will react differently on different types of papers. I did a doodle on a thin paper. I had to make it somewhat drier for it not to feather badly:

It behaves well on my moleskin watercolor pocket-sized sketchbook - great for washes too.

And to finish it off, here's my final art I did for my friend - "Eiffel Tower" done on an unknown paper I had in my larger sketchbook (I got it as a gift so that's why I don't know) - it seems to accept ink very well.

The conclusion: would I recommend this ink?

For its high shading capability, yes!

For the rest, no. It's causing me a lot of headaches trying to "tame" it enough to work with my pen - my other two inks are much easier - you can just refill it up and start using it right away. Much more straightforward. However, if you like to tweak, give it a try just for its shading! 💛

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