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In Which Our Heroine Visits Places Loosely Viewed As "Artists' Supplies"

Apr 12, 2012 00:57

Today in my excitement of Going Forth and Doing Things, I did not realize the irony of my art supply purchases consisting of (1) my favorite make of mechanical pencil and (2) a pencil sharpener. In fact, it really only just stuck me about two minutes ago. I think I must have been caught up in the context of the store's bewildering array of ( Read more... )

gallivants, art on a stick, expect the unexpected

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lrodell April 12 2012, 06:34:51 UTC

...that is *amazing*! Why in the world did they only show how they make the WHITE ones on "How It's Made" years ago?! THIS I would have loved to see! Rows of every color you can think of...I would need more houses to justify those...and the renters would have to agree to decorate AROUND THE UNSPEAKABLE BEAUTY OF THEIR COMMODES!!!<333
Maybe they'd order it for you, if you give them a few brand names to play with? Or, well, I frequent Dick Blick Art Supply online a *lot*^^ Or Joe's Art Stuff? (though I remember those catalogs as being rather watercolor/oil painting supply-heavy?)

chronographia April 16 2012, 06:13:54 UTC

From what I can tell from home improvement shows, is that there was a point in the mid-1960s to mid-1970s where someone thought that color-coordinated ceramics in bathrooms was the final word in decor. And apparently many of these bathrooms (sans bathtubs, sans 4x4" tiled everything) have been gutted out of their mid-1960s to mid-1970s era homes and have ended up in a salvage warehouse.

I've talked to the director of the printmaking program and she has agreed with me that we need a bottle of liquid hard ground. (There was an . . . INCIDENT when I tried using the melt-on-with-a-hot-plate solid hard ground.) A bottle will be on its way within the week!

hannah_nutwood April 13 2012, 00:05:36 UTC

I think tin is the best ceiling covering ever created. If I owned my own place I would deck my ceilings with the stuff extravagantly. I very much enjoyed your photos of it.

And, my goodness, your friend's astute observation on the colour palette of those toilets is spot on!

chronographia April 16 2012, 06:16:30 UTC

I've been a-scheming about the things I could do with patina'd tin ceilings from salvage, mostly centering around booth display for my conventions and events. HMMMMM.

Kris has a genius for knowing just the right contemporary art reference to use.
(Apparently Kinkade just passed away, like within the past two weeks? Or so Wikipedia tells me?)