Editing The Pen Addict 278/transcript (section)

== Fall Inks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Pat Hannon wants to know, what inks are perfect for fall? I need to load some pens. Luckily, we have a perfect answer for you. At least I do, because Kelly, I think it's Kelly, at Mountain of Ink, she's put out two fall ink palettes so far, one called Autumn Trees and one called Fall Sunset. This is exactly where you want to go. I am fascinated with this Autumn Trees post because it's so freaking perfect, not to mention it has one of my favorite inks ever in there, which is the Papier Plume Sazerac. You know, I can't really, you know, knock anything that has a Sazerac in it, but just look at these posts, Myke. How great a job does she do?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Beautiful. Like, wonderful. Like, to pair them with the pictures and then to, like, you know, like, there's, like, this beautiful tree sunset picture here and then, like, the really, I assume, high-quality scans of what I'm assuming are coloring.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Yeah, it looks like it. Yeah, so, like, five stars all around. My gosh, yeah. Kelly's killing it at Mountain of Ink. She's already done 100 ink posts, Myke. My word. Like, she must post, like, three, four, five times a week. And they're all, like, intense. Yeah, very, very high professional.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, good job. Good job by you, Kelly.

'''Myke Hurley:''' By color, by brand. Yeah, really great job. Fantastic.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. But when I think of fall, I definitely am in that orange, yellow, brown, red palette. Every now and then, you throw in a purple. If you get the right one, I think a purple will fit into these autumn colorways. But when you look at what Kelly's done here, I mean, just go for that. Pick any of those colors. They're fantastic. All right. The next one is from Miriam. She says, So, here's my issue. I decided to join the Inktober challenge with a little twist. I draw on gray paper and use both black and white ink to create some really awesome light and shading. I use a fountain pen for the black ink, but for the white ink, I use either a Uniball Signo white gel pen or a bottle of opaque white ink that I apply with a fine brush. I like the waterproofness of the white gel pen, but I run out of ink quicker than I thought. It's frustrating having to buy gel pens in bulk while I can just refill my one fountain pen over and over. Is there a rollerball or gel pen or similar that's refillable, or is it possible to disassemble the Uniball and refill it with a syringe? So, you can get a rollerball style pen that takes what's essentially a fountain pen ink cartridge, and you can syringe fill those cartridges with your bottle of opaque white ink. So, Pilot V-Series is probably the first one I'd go to because it's the cheapest and the best. You can, gosh, I don't even know the exact name of it, but it's essentially a refillable rollerball pen designed around Pilot's ink cartridges. Now, those cartridges are proprietary, so your first batch of cartridges you have to buy from Pilot, but it ships with one, and you can just refill it, empty it out, clean it, refill it with your white ink, and use it in that pen. That's the one I would pick. Jay Herban and Kaweco both make similar type things, but they're much more expensive and do not work as well as the Pilot one. So, that's definitely the way to go if you want to keep the white ink in a rollerball pen without having to buy tons of white gel ink pens. All right, last one, Myke, and it's a picture. It's from listener Yevgeny, who, is he in the chat room today? He's usually, he's in the morning, the morning chat. Morning crew. Not pen addict nights.