Pinata Calabza Orange Alcohol Ink That by Jacquard, Professional and Versatile Ink That Produces Color-Saturated and Acid-Free Results, 4 Fluid Ounces, Made in The USA

Best alcohol ink I've found for dropping down into resin.

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It’s one of the best white alcohol inks I’ve tried so I keep coming back for it. (Note: No spillage for me. So I assume I got lucky)

This would be 5 stars with the addition of a flip top squirt cap. This cap allows for dripping, otherwise this is a great product with a beautiful gold color. I will probably swap the cap out for a different one. Shake well before use, as it does settle, but there are metal balls in the bottle to help with distribution.

I do love this ink, and I almost feel guilty giving it only 4 stars. First, the great things about it: I love the consistency, the opacity and the “slip” of this ink. It is phenomenal for applications when I want to to slide over resin colors that are already laid down, and laces beautifully with just a short blast of a heat gun. I love the way that it glides over my layers. Also, the price is very reasonable, considering the size of the bottle.Now for the problems. I had to repurchase after using less than 1/4 oz of my 4 oz bottle. I screwed the cap on fairly tight, but when I picked it up to use it the next day, nearly all the ink had leaked out of the top of the still tightly capped bottle. Granted, it had tipped over and was lying horizontal, but that is what caps are for. I was not happy, but I guess it is a testament to its worth that I repurchased it. I have learned to decant it into other containers after first use. If the bottle had been designed to be more squatty, (proportional to their smaller size bottles), wider on the bottom, and not so tall and narrow, it would not tip over so easily. I own other colors in the 4 oz bottles, and this leaking problem seems to be peculiar to the white, or at least the manufacture of that batch. Then there’s the curdling problem. It took me a while to realize that although it IS termed an alcohol ink, if I introduce any other alcohol (I routinely use 91% or 99%) the entire swath of white that I just added to the painting morphs into something resembling cottage cheese; it lifts itself off the other paint and generally ruins my work. I mention the strength of the alcohol, lest anyone assume that I was causing my own problems by using alcohol with too much water in it. I am puzzled by the ink/alcohol reaction, but I have learned how to work around its characteristics. The curdling does not happen with any of the other Pinata inks, which makes it all the more mysterious. As previously mentioned, I am using it with resin, so I assume that some sort of reaction occurs because of that. I can only hypothesize that the other colors are made with dyes, which is the norm for alcohol inks, but the opacity needed to make white requires the addition of pigments, and for some reason, the pigment in this white hates alcohol?

I use this brand of metallic alcohol ink because it is the most intense. Flows great with colored inks.

My honest review is that I’m happy with working with the product after transferring it into a new squirt-tip container. However, the product did arrive nasty and sticky and gunky, with a taped top with blue/green contents that I was not convinced had come out of the product itself, until I watched the mixture settle inside the bottle as well turn into the same weird green liquid, while the brass settled to the bottom. My fingers were sticky for 2 days just from opening the product, but I’d never write a negative review solely on how a product’s condition was upon arrival, unless it seriously effected the purpose or performance—just a note. The product works great for me and my ink artwork. Additionally, I’m not convinced either way on wether the contents that make up this mixture aren’t just a messy concoction, or conversely, a bad batch/poor imitation.

Great value. Especially if you’re like me and use the black inks a lot.

Great ink, works well. Perfect black. Excellent quality

This is a superior product that gives great effects to alcohol ink projects

Timely & good delivery.

Love it. Its endless possibilities with this resin pigment. Thank you so much

Product arrived before time. This metallic adds zing to alcohol ink art. Highly recommended