What's That?
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| Pen Jam |
Weird thing to keep in a jar right? :)
I decided poor neglected pretties needed
a much needed bath so I had to leave them like this for a while to get that
dried ink out. As soon as the water clears I'll assemble them again and they
will be ready to draw. Again. Finally! (I can just hear them say that)
I treated myself some more and ordered
Winston&Newton Cotman Studio 45 Half Pan Set of watercolors. I’ve
been admiring them for quite a while and I couldn’t resist the price when I saw
it. I’m testing a new way of getting things from UK because not all the Amazon
sellers ship here. There seems to be a bit of a hiccup with this already but I’m
confident we’ll sort things out and they will arrive here quickly. I also ordered
two of Winston&Newton sketchbooks (with 170gr paper) so that I really won’t
have any excuses left not to draw ;)
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| ready for Canada |
Now I really have to spill the beans about a very cool art project I’m doing with 6 of my on-line
friends: Suzi from
Australia, Soni
Raj and Sandy
from Canada, Yvonne and Esther from
Netherlands and Pavinee
from Thailand. We decided to make an accordion sketchbook and fill it up with
our arts. The sketchbooks will do quite some traveling before they reach all of us but it’s so exciting to read about their current location and what is going on
there. I don’t have any of them at the moment but it was really fun and
challenging to make mine and think about what to put in it. I’m quite pleased
with how it turned out but I shall not share any sneak peeks with you just yet.
I should go and do some seeding now. I bought a couple of packages of poppy seeds when I was in Netherlands because poppies are one of my favourite flowers and I hope to have them on my balcony this year. I bought the huge ones and the small ones - I wonder which of them will grow first.
sweet ♥
ReplyDeleteEven the pen jam looks like an interesting art-project the way you photographed it. ;-)
ReplyDeleteDo draw in the new sketchbooks and show us please :-).
:) Thank you Esther, it's a lot of fun to play around with photos digitally.
DeleteI sure will - I just hope I'll get them soon.
Wooooo, hooray for new supplies! And your international project sounds so cool! I look forward to photos of the poppies eventually!
ReplyDeleteoooh yes, the photos of the poppies when they bloom! I hope they will
DeleteOh, I'm looking forward to your watercolour paintings! :) I would like to buy a proper set myself someday, but I want to wait until I get better with watercolours first.
ReplyDeleteThat art project with your friends is really great! ♥ And poppy seeds, too! :D
Well, I'm no expert at watercolors but I have this huge adoration for them ever since I can remember and I decided I needed my third set asap ;)
DeletePoppies are currently not doing well at all. None of the little seeds sprout :/
The accordion sketchbook idea is awesome! I can't wait to see the art you guys produce. I just know it will be wonderful. What a treasure!
ReplyDeleteYay Jodi, I'm really glad you think so! :) I can't wait to see any of the sketchbooks.... I'll be getting them quite far away in the process.
DeleteWhy, oh why, didn't I comment here?? I KNOW I read this post... Never mind, I'm back here now, although a million years late ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat sort of pens are those? And are they happy and working again by now? Did you get your watercolours yet, and have you given them a work-out?? :) Haha, I know what you're saying about adoring watercolour sets ;) I've got 3 proper sets, and a box of new and scrumptious liquid watercolours :D I LOVE colourful displays - sets of coloured pencils (yours is still the most impressive :D), crayons, paints... If I can figure out a good (enough, to me, at least ;)) reason, I buy, too ;)
xx!
I love your photographic 'evidence', it shows what you're up to in typical Nini-style :D LOVE :) xx
Awww, don't worry my dear, any comment anytime is always appreciated!
ReplyDeleteThe pens are from Rotring and are called Art Pens - they use little cartridges and yes, two of them are happily working again - one of them was even with me in Rhodes.
I did get my watercolors but haven't tried them out yet. I think I will in the 20 drawings/paintings thingie that will happen in August. I'd loooove to have as many colors as possible but unfortunately there seems to be a limit at 120 - at least in colored pencils. But they do look so nice together. It's really hard to resist them (but I did resist buying a set of tubed watercolors in one of the odd local supermarkets in Rhodes but I'm still miserable about it - they were so cheap and good looking but I TOTALLY don't need them as I have a brand new set and I haven't even tried it yet :D ) ... Hi, my name is nini and I'm a color addict :D
I'm still kind of experimenting with the photos for my layout but the ones with rounded borders usually take way too many actions to get so I'm kind of switching to "ordinary" ones - but it's hard. So it's nice to read I do have some sort of recognizable style. I'd love to hear what it gives it away if you feel like telling me please. So that I'll stick with it :)