Two Inks: My Winter Colors

I picked up a few new pens while traveling. One was a chisel nib with a lovely gliding feeling - I used it for sketching in Singapore quite a bit, thinking that it was water-proof - but when I tested it home I realized that it is water-resistant at best. Still - it's a joy if you like a quick and quirky line! I am thinking about refilling it with waterproof ink as a test :)

There were two fountain pens, both no-names but custom-adjusted by the owner of the famous Straits Art Store in Singapore. Andrew Tan (Drewscape - who has new Skillshare classes out by the way!) brought me there and introduced me to the store owners and we had a lovely conversation about art materials and urban sketching. I filled these pens only upon my return home because of all the travel and picked brown and blue-gray inks from my collection. One is De Atramentis Document Brown and another one is an old bottle of blue-gray, from an ink company that I cannot recommend but have some leftovers and will finish up before getting new ones. 

And these two colors became my signature winter colors! No matter what I draw (unless it is a crazy "on the go" situation like while moving my parents from one apartment to another when a ballpoint or a dry sharpie from marking boxes is all I have) my hand goes to one of these pens and other colors that I lean into are being curated by this pair. They work with each other, work with other materials but they also fly solo quite well - not boring but more austere. They give me a feeling of profound wintering.