I won £50 on a local lottery recently and spent the lot on paper. It's not that much paper as it happens, not when the paper is hot pressed Fabriano. Whenever I make an order from +Jackson's Art Supplies I add on a few coloured pencils (to make the postage worthwhile). Most of my art stuff is gathered along the way. I buy sketchbooks at The Cube, pencils and brushes from the shop in Folkestone's Old High Street, a feather from the garden, a magnifying glass from Specsavers.
We have a new lady in class. She arrives and sets up a very posh big magnifying glass on a stand. It has a row of LED lights. Then she stacks up her black zipped cases of pencils and brushes. There are four of them, identical and pristine. She has a plastic storage box - not a rejected tupperware job like mine, but a proper affair with trays and drawers. She comes and goes with a small suitcase on wheels to carry all her gear. At home she has a workshop in which to artisticate. I have a small table squeezed between the spare bed and the window, and a daylight lamp from Amazon. No wonder the bed is strewn with materials and work in progress.
I think I shall start referring to the spare room as 'my studio'.
Working on three pictures in my 'True Facts From Nature' series (see +Rory McEwen ). One is from our garden, one from Monk's House, Rodmell - home of Virginia Woolf - and the third is from Toby and Zenah's garden. Also on the go - 'Seed shells' in ink. Wish I had more time though. The dark evenings are a struggle even with my daylight lamp.
