My mommy person bought me these awhile ago:

She bought them because you can use them on fabric, then seal them in. Her quilting art list folk love them.

I figured I’d start with testing them out on paper. But I don’t even like wasting my cheaper colored pencils. And I’m such an art n00b that I’m trying to decide what to do with them. Another cartoon’y girl… or try to practice and branch out into something new. In the mean time, they’re sitting in their pretty tin staring me in the face like “Hi, gonna use us yet?”. Argh. Need inspiration.

A care package arrived from my mommy person today, included was stuff I could post here!

A Watercolour sketch kit:

And some scratchart stuff:

Along with some non art related stuff like angels (sadly a snowglobe shattered in transit), some f00d, Superman and Batman pens (they each fly around the top of their pen), etc. Mom rocks. Though ask me if she still rocks when Brian gets his stuff — which make noise.

So for the first time in awhile we went to Dick Blick = good.

We got there right before they closed = bad.

I did manage to grab a  Staedtler Mars Plastic Eraser , a pad of Borden & Riley Paris Bleedproof Paper For Pens, an Itoya Art Profolio, and Prismacolor Art Stix (err imagine a pastel stick but made out of colour pencil).

And then bad = closing time. I wanted to get some new pens and stuff, but I’ll just have to order those online.

DickBlick is having a big clearance sale. They’re mean. They’re making me drool

Prismacolor Colored Pencil Sets Special Offer
If I could think of anyway to justify $80 on my credit card right now, I’d click buy. I’m soooo tempted. I have crappy crappy coloured pencils… so… tempted… stop me… want… to… click…now… 120 colour pencils + 12 piece sketch set + verithin colour pencils = *drool*

Seriously come break my fingers, I’m very very tempted. Ok no! Don’t come break my fingers, my three day headache is enough pain so I won’t… Argh bad bad bad them tempting me! If I hadn’t already used my PayPal money to buy *gasp* an art book, I’d so justify this much easier. But I had to get the book!

They also some good deals on papers and some paints and framing stuff, etc for my artistic friends with money! The clearance section on their site: Dick Blick Art Materials
is EVIL. Most of their site is, but especially clearance *nods*

Almost didn’t sleep at all today, brain aliens so bad. Did *cough* nap from 4-9 (when Brian woke me up). Well I was in bed all day and my laptop is sort of used as a desktop machine so it’s not practical to move it around. That meant I couldn’t work on Misi’s painting. But I had to attempt to redeem myself for the bad video ArtLog Or at least sketch to keep myself busy, here is the result:

She's Super - Sketch

This is the sketched version. But I didn’t stop there… Oh… no… Continue reading »