Ghost ink, a blacker shimmer!

Sterling Silver, which is a brighter shimmer.

I am not usually a shimmer gurl, but I’ve found one that is soon
to have its own pen!  I love Robert Oster Signature’s shimmer, GHOST!
It has a silver-black shimmer, then goes grey leaning into
purple-grey, and then into turquoise blue when touched with water, shown right.

I compare it above to Sterling Silver, which is a clear bright silver shimmer.

In the meantime, I used a bent-nibbed
dip pen, the Sailor 12-0138-710
Fountain Pen Nib Pen Hocoro.

I had to draw an image of its
namesake, a sceeeery ghost, right?
(Shown left, actually.)

Remember that others review these inks just for writing; I am also interested in how they are used for ink-painting!

Properties of Robert Oster’s Ghost:

This ink is well-behaved, and
doesn’t feather on any of the papers
I normally use, even Post-its.
It is not water resistant.
No smearing using a calligraphy dip pen. When hit with water it moves easily
with no resistance or ghosting.
I consider it a medium ink,
neither wet nor dry, and in normal
writing it evaporates quickly.

In the large amounts where I painted
with it, shown right, it went on as if it were completely black!  I was concerned I had not turned it upside down enough to disperse
the sparkling bits.  Nope, look at the shimmer it had after it dried!

On smooth Hahnemühle Nostalgie
paper I created a fast sketch of
row houses in Portland, above.

Below, showing Ghost next to several  Robert Oster greys for comparison.

Other Robert Oster Inks reviewed in this manner to date can be seen here.

RO is experimenting and testing lightfast properties… MOST water soluble ink companies do not yet pay attention to these properties because most artists who use ink are making prints of their work.

His non-toxic inks come in 50ml plastic bottles that are environmentally friendly, using recycled plastic. They can be tippy, so I usually put them in a more solid container to decant. The ink bottle mouth is wide, and all my pens fit easily into the bottle opening to fill.

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