Published on 12, July, 2020
Those of you on here who have posted alongside me on here for years will know I am a opinionated fellow who can get drawn into serious debate. However I would enjoy having a thread that is not too cerebral and where we can be gentle and kind to each other.So let me cast this spell and see if it works.Veni Vidi Vici.
I think your gentle thread is bobbins
This reminds me of how much I love art shops. I am not an artist. I can't draw or anything. But I just love all the colours and neatly lined up pencils, pens, paper and paints. They are never so good when you get them home - unless you bought a lot!
Basically, I want to own an art shop. One that doesn't have customers
Mark (formerly Spikey) said:. They are never so good when you get them home - unless you bought a lot
I have the biggest ever tin of watercolour pencils, plus more and more that had such nice colours I couldn't resist them.
I may be a colour hoarder...
When you say water colour pencils do you mean like pencil crayons but they only work when you dip them in water? I had some like that when I was a child. I remember they were fun to use as less messy than paint in a tin and water and the colours came out much brighter than pencil crayons.
I didn't even know that was a thing. Old, but not obsolete. (like me, I hope)
This week I visited a museum to look at natural history objects which were new to me (e.g. I had not seen iridescent fossils before); to kick-start some inspiration in preparation for attending a doodling course via our local Recovery College this Autumn.
Following the museum visit, I called into a small and yet well-stocked independent art supplies shop.
I bought for myself a pair of Derwent pencil extender tubes (each tube in the set accommodates a different diameter watercolour pencil etc.).
This addition to my art box means I can anticipate the rediscovery of those previously well-loved pencil crayons / sketching pencils etc. (which are too short to be comfortable to use on their own now) ...to enable their enjoyment for several further projects for a while longer than I had previously feared.
I totally understand! I used to buy my wife all sorts of art supplies because she is the artistic one. She never has time though, sadly. The good news is that they are pristine!