This morning I saw a bright red van promising "the most fun kids can have" and as I was taking a photo of it I happened to also get a yellow house and a blue car in the picture too... three primaries converging... it felt like a good start to the day that I was expecting my encaustic paints to arrive!
When I got home a delivery van was just leaving... but that turned out to have been bringing Teasel's next 5 month supply of kibble!
I had to wait a little longer for my parcel....
I'd been taking ages to decide on what to order or indeed whether to order at all... but a few things helped me make up my mind...
- I discovered that the current prices on the R&F website were, when changed into £s, now much the same as the current prices from Jacksons.... that I would also be likely to be charged 20% Import VAT, plus postage, plus maybe another £10 to the carrier for the pleasure of having them collect customs duty from me!(Thanks Ros for warning me about that £10).
- From Jacksons Facebook page I knew that their prices were very likely to be going up as soon as their new catalogue comes out soon...
- And finally in my fantasy ordering at one point I accidentally put in two of one colour and got a message that they didn't have enough in stock to meet the whole order... whereas with just the one it had been okay... when it said "low stock" it really meant it...
I also ordered a couple of R&F pigment sticks to see what they are like - here are the Hakes and few of my new goodies:
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Darn - what a roller-coaster ride. Love the 3 primary colours (have you read the ... michael wilcox? ... book about that being a crock of ...?
Yay - encaustics and nice brushes - what more could a girl ask for? (other than chocolate, vodka, sleep ... oh,hang on, that's me!)
You realise there are now high expectations of you producing excellent art with these products, don't you?
hugs
sue:)
Sue - did you notice that at the visual intersection there was a green object... its a green rubbish bin... :)
I have to undo my own high over-expectations before I play too...
Hi Caroline - what are the RF sticks I see there - are these colors? I always LOVE new supplies!
Hi Cathy
The R&F sticks are more like oil sticks... http://www.rfpaints.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=80
I regret to say I've had a bit of a lurgy since they arrived so have yet to get to grips with them...
Love the primary colors - and the touch of green really does make it all 'pop.'
New art supplies certainly seem like 'the most fun kids can have'(at least to my inner child ;). Hope you are having lots of fun with them!
p.s. Copying and pasting to take your advice about posting twice, to see if it will make commenting work - so please forgive me, if you get a duplicate!
Thanks for taking the time to post Tinker... and glad it worked too! (I did get both but have only published one of them)
The weather has been too cold here for me to play with my new toys... so I'm waiting impatiently for milder weather to come.
I saw a demo at a show once with encaustics and a travel iron, looked like good fun...I shall look forward to coming to see what you have done with them....sorry I have been away from your blog for a while, I've missed reading blogs and writing mine, going to try to do a bit more of both!
Hope it warms up for you soon, so you can go out and play!
(Testing to see if I can comment again. Despite the debugging by my SIL, it appears I'm still having some commenting problems...)
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