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Your Art Kit

Tell us about Your Art Kit or Art Box as the case may be... what do you have in it? Is it neatly organized with everything put away or is it a mass of confusion?

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My entire apartment is my art box. I'm just now relocating to a two story loft in Manhattan, and I've decided to forgo the pages of Traditional Home Magazine for one big artistic mess.

I've got Prismacolor pencils, a Prismacolor sketch kit, Faber-Castell watercolor pencils, a selection of random brands of oil and acrylic paints, lots of papers...Usually anything advertised as "bright white" paper. I absolutely can't stand that faded ivory watercolor paper...Ick! I've got Prismacolor markers - can you tell I'm a Prismacolor addict? Canvas...Usually 30x30 is the minimum size I'll buy...Because I paint with my hands, I'm not very good with super-fine details. I'm going to invest in some brushes..You know, the uber-beautiful ones?..More so because I plan on inviting people over to "Ooh" and "Ahhh" at my space, and I don't like to let in on the fact that I don't use a brush when I work...

I've also cluttered my space up with a lot of "furniture." Drawing tables, drafting tables (my father wanted me to be an architect!) light boxes and light tables, easels, and now (yay!) a kiln and a pottery wheel.

Oh, I'm rambling. I've got stuff, that's for sure!

Amy

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Wow, Amy! I am impressed. It would be so much fun to have my own wheel and kiln! Not that I can do much with clay, but it would still be fun

My "art kit" is a fabric pencil case with charcoal pencils, sketching pencils, an X-acto knife, erasers, etc. I usually keep that in my portfolio bag, which also has a large drawing clip board, chamois, a few random nupastels, ruler, etc. It's not particularly organized, in my pencil case there's charcoal and pencil shavings everywhere that's driving me crazy. I think I need to get a plastic one. I would also LOVE to have my own easel. Someday...when I'm not quite so poor maybe.

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Thanks. But really, it's nothing.

I may own the items, but trust me. My friends still have to come to my lovely home and step between leaning paintings and a white sheet splattered with cadmium. (I'm not the neatest girl in the world.)

I'm 5'2, maybe, and for the me, the bigger the canvas is, the better!

"Amy, where are you?"
"I'm here!"
"Amy!"
"Behind the canvas!"
"AMY!"
"The really big canvas!"

You get my point.

I'm much more impressed with artists that really get messy with their work. So you don't have an easel? Tell me about how you sat outside on the grass all day, slaving over your current masterpiece. I much prefer this, because then I actually have something to talk about the next time someone comes over for dinner!

"Look at that beautiful painting. And you're not going to believe how she did the entire thing..."

Oh, well. Much luck finding an inexpensive easel!
Amy