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Just recently, Craig Young made me a customised tray to go inside the paintbox he made me a few years ago. Instead of putting the tube paint straight into the enamelled full pan wells, I wanted to use the empty plastic half pans you can get from Ken Bromley and fit two in each well. The wells in the tray that came with the paintbox would only fit plastic full pans and I wanted to add a lot more colours to my box, so being able to fit two half pans in each well is brilliant.
As you can see, I am not really an exponent of the 'limited palette' - more the 'unlimited palette'!! My new tray lets me indulge myself on this score.
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There is a great box of art materials called "art and parcel" that is also a monthly subscription thing. It has new materials in it so should keep most artists up to date!!
Also has a minimum saving of 40% on the RRP
have a look below..
http://www.hblythco.com/art-and-parcel
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Don't know about "must haves", much of the above reads as "really, really wanted to have, so I bought it!". And why on earth not - we're only here once, so far as I know, and there are so many worse ways of spending money.
I'm entirely relaxed about people having a massive palette of colours if they want them - I like to mix colour and my palette is fairly limited: but now and then something different appeals to me, and I buy it: my horizons in watercolour were expanded by Alan Owen, who sent me a parcel of colours, including perylene green, Turner's Yellow, and Transparent Turquoise (he does that sort of thing!): I'd never have thought of using any of them but I do now.
My must have, which I'd intended to buy for a long time but never got round to until a few weeks ago, is a Staedtler clutch pencil, with its own sharpener: it's a marvellous drawing instrument - easily sharpened to a needle point, and sits beautifully in the hand. And the other investment was my Dux brass pencil sharpener, with spare blades and its own leather case - as brought to my attention by Sylvia and TB - I can now get a fine point even on my Mars Lumograph 8B pencil (also by Staedtler, and just about the best soft pencil there is).
I'm currently saving up for a carton of Michael Harding's Cremnitz White - it's around £55, depending on where you buy it, but having looked at the price of Thea's Craig Young paintbox (even though they're worth every single penny, as one can easily see) I feel a bit less guilty about the cost.
And it's still less than a case of wine from Laithwaite's.......