The arrival of a parcel containing art supplies. This fortnight I saved up and bought myself three, yes three kolinsky brushes and some half pans and two new colours to tip the order over the free shipping threshold. Trust me, the price of postage in Australia is enough to pay for those colours. We have what I think is some of the highest shipping rates in the world and the slowest domestic post since the invention of the donkey.
No more messy tin. I now have an artists palette and real brushes.
The jewel of this little treasure is of course the half pans. Cheap though they were they make all the difference to the mess in my tin. I got some extras for mixing in as I’m still mixing about 4 times as much paint as I actually use, so at least I can move onto a clean little cup and mix another colour.
I cut my water colour sticks and put the rest in a safe place. You can see I have added Buff Titanium and Phthalo Green (I got sick of mixing 3 colour greens, it got old fast when painting botanicals). I haven’t fully tested my brushes but did do a quick little doodle with each one to test the stroke thickness and how fine a line I can get with each. Needless to say I’m astounded with how fine that line can get even with the number 5 which was the largest one I bought.
Don’t know if it psychosomatic or not but the sable just feels much nicer on the paper. With synthetic you can feel it scratching against the paper, sable not at all, it glides. Perhaps the price of the brushes is currently clouding my perception. These three babies set me back $70. By comparison the artist paints were a steal.
I bought the buff titanium partly on recommendation from many other artists and partly because I thought it would assist with creating the peach fuzz and halo of certain botanicals. Creating a haze over the top of another colour is what it does well.
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