I recently got a couple of new Lamy Safari fountain pens, one Extra Fine and one Medium, to go with the Fine one that I’ve had for a while. I filled the Fine one with black carbon platinum ink, and put that in the Extra Fine one too. While on recent sketchcrawls I saw my fellow Davis sketcher Alison Kent using this nice chocolate brown ink, De Atramentis Document Brown, and I thought right, I’m going to use that too. So I got some (not cheap) and have been using it for a bit, and I love it. It’s much lighter than my regular brown-black, and draws very smoothly. Still getting used to it, and it might not be as fine as my Uni-ball Signo, and it does often depend on the side of paper I draw on, but it’s nice. So to test it out I did a sketch of some of my wife’s tiki-themed ornaments on the shelf. It’s a good colour to be drawing this with. It was a stay-indoors day. We’ve not been to Trader Sam’s yet, by the way. We have been to Three Dots and a Dash, a very cool tiki bar in Chicago, their cocktails were amazing. And of course we’ve been to the Enchanted Tiki Rooms at Disneyland, my wife loves that place. We still haven’t been to the new tiki (and pirate) themed bar in Davis though, Shipwrecked, we need to check that out. Might be a while before I sketch that one though. We did recently visit an amazing (and expensive) exhibition on Napa about all the tiki bars of northern California, there is a very interesting history with all these old themed places. Personally I loved the Tonga Rooms in San Francisco, when we visited there while staying at the Fairmont.