I just received a box of art supplies from Blick (the great Chicago art supply stores) with a stack of empty sketchbooks and the coolest box of Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils. These draw like any colored pencil, but add water and line turns into ink wash. I envision many hours of fun. Plus they come in the most cunning little wooden box, with a sliding lid that has glossy varnish and a beautifully dished-out recessed finger pull.
I could spend hours just sliding the lid open and shut, daydreaming of Beaux Arts ink wash renderings.
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* Possibly the big-kid box of 64 new Crayola crayons. The colors! The colors!
Oh I know how it feels, I too like the stores with office supplies: all kinds of paper, pens, empty notebooks-to-fill with words....
ReplyDeleteI also like hardware stores..... although I am not much of a diy-er.
coby
Oh, yes! Crisp clean paper calling out to become novels or love letters. Or fascinating bits of hardware that you hold up, wondering what project it wants to be part of...
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