Well, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be.

[silverthorne]

So I did two things today in relation to my resolutions. The first was to go and get two new sketchbooks to replace the ones I had. Although it's wasteful, the ones I still had were old, musty, and quite frankly, were gifts from the ex and never had much in them to start with.

I'd already trashed my older ones before I moved, saving just the pages that had some little merit to them. I'd kept these at first because, well, wasting paper is not good.

And promptly ignored them. Sure, I sketched a few things in them. Nothing I wanted to keep, and I was uncomfortable with them in my lap. I dunno. Maybe another artist or mucisian would get it; trying to create anything with tools you don;t feel right in handling? Just doesn't help. I dunno, maybe that's just a mental block on my part. Whatever the reason though, they're gone. There was actually surprisingly little I wanted to keep--just a few clothing designs that I'm likely going to re-sketch in the new books before trashing what I tore out of the old ones. At least now, though, I'm happy with my tools. Even looking forward to a little work this afternoon. And I don't feel weird touching them, either.

Of course, the bad news is that I found out that Micheals is all of three miles away--almost walking distance. This could be bad for my pocket book. Especialyl since I found both a portable drafting table and a floor lamp that I am positively drooling for (and will cost me a sweet 500 after tax and the like. Yikes. XD. Yeah, I think those'll be on the 'not yet, dear' list.)

Anyhow, getting that part settled, came home and went through my art supplies to see what died in the five-plus years that I hadn't used any of it.

I was surpised to find out that only five of my markers, three of my india inks, and one of my inking pens had died horribly. Which means instead of the few to several hundred dollars I might have been looking at to replace stuff, I'm only going to be out roughly 50-100. Which is very good. Of course, if I decide to add acrylics and oils back into it, that'll become a few hundred. BUt I think that'll be a bit in the future yet--I need to reacquaint myself with my chosen mediums first. :) Although...there will be 70 going towards a nice pastel pencil set. *cough*

And just a note; both Higgins and Windsor & Newton inks hold up nicely. Just in case anyone cared. Likewise the Prismacolor markers and pencils. :)

Any, step one done. And now I'm gonna go play with the water color pencil set and see if I remember how in hell to use them. *g*

Comments

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Eh, the markers were seven years old and pretty much dead. As in--the cores themselves were dry-rattling around inside the casing. They were also the colors I used most often back then, so it makes sense they were pretty much out anyway. I don't think the alchohol trick would have worked on them. ;)

I've never even seen that brand, but I'll keep an eye out. Thank you. :)

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

http://www.jerrysartarama.com/discount-art-supplies/online/692/art-supplies/4

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Oooh, nifty! Thank you!

(Oh, look, something else to blow my credit card on *squee!*...er...^^;)