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michael

Michael Edwards

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I thought it might be interesting to post items which we as artists have adopted, used, made etc which find invaluable. So I thought I'd start off with something which I wouldn't be without - an antique brass door stop. 'What' I hear you ask 'could you be doing with a door stop?' Well I have long thought that one of the defects in human anatomy is that we only have two arms and two hands. This makes it difficult to do many tasks especially boxing up and wrapping. I present many of my paintings mounted but unframed and wrapped in celophane and this is where the door stop comes in so useful - I use it to keep the wrapping while I tear off selotape and seal it in place. It also comes in useful for wrapping presents - and its quite decorative in the studio. In the background to the photo of it below you will also see my own version of a brush rest made from two brass hooks on a piece of wood - something else I wouldn't be without and which I have been using for many years now. Has anyone else something unusual which they wouldn't be without?

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And forgive me for spelling ehemera incorrectly and also inappropriately as they might be items which have endured ! Why can you only edit content of postings and not correct titles?

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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

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Enjoyed that, Syd.... sarcastic little devil on the quiet, aren't you...? I've pressed many things into service, but not anything really as unusual as Michael's - a length of plastic window framing (well, I think it is: it's an offcut of something or other when we had new doors and windows fitted) which holds brushes but doesn't actually separate them; it does keep the painty points from fouling each other, though; I have a length of dowelling, with a bit of foam rubber wrapped in old pyjama fabric and tied with shoelace for my Mahl stick; I store my brushes in the long tins or reinforced boxes used to house whisky bottles; but I have nothing to compare with a nice bit of brass or Michael's superior brush-rest, which looks as if it was made for the job. Then there's my old Cadbury's Smash tin (I'll never know where that came from: I would never eat reconstituted mashed potato) containing a smaller tin (which held salmon: I'd certainly eat that..) with a perforated bottom, turned upside down and the big tin full of white spirit - for washing out my oil painting brushes. You can buy all of these things of course, and I'm sure they'd look better than my motley collection of impedimenta - but you grow attached even to the tat, because you had the idea of converting it into something useful.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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By the way, Syd, I think I can see your tootsies.....
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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No lemons? No, no, not that.....! How would I flavour my gin and tonic? Speaking of which............... time for my Sunday drinkypoo....