Art Supply Finds

I'm hoping to "FIND" all my supplies again. After the first move not everything got "put out", now I'm moving again. I'm to have a studio--about 10 x 10 that I hope is roomy enough for all my stuff... Then, I hope to get some gouache and maybe some oil pencils.
 
My local Hobby Lobby store is doing a bit of display rearranging..They had a few of their paper display racks for sale for $15 each. I bought one to store all my art boards on. Its the same rack they were in when I bought them from the store on clearance. I've always wanted a rack to keep them on. It's six ft. high.
 
The other day I purchased a cradled 30x30 Claybord for $35. It had a couple rubs on the corners and no packaging.
 
The two Hobby Lobbys that are within about 30+ miles of me are both clearancing their Master Touch linen stretched canvases. Yes, a cheaper storebrand, but I've used these before, and they are pretty decent. They're even more decent at 75% plus off. Sometimes I prepare the canvases for pastel painting.. I was able to pick up 22 of them between the two stores. I chose 11x14s for $3.25 each and 8x10s for $2.50 each. I'll put most away for Christmas gifts for my younger neice. A decent bargain...
 
Hi all. I have too much art stuff and no longer the health to use most of it. I loathe to part with it as it represents me. But I have to get rid of so much to move to one level living/smaller space at 49 yrs old, and some products make me very ill now.
So I am getting rid of many things. Just sold my oil painting supplies. A big box, Winsor Newton with a few other good brands. Many were the largest tubes you can buy, and many smaller, all mostly full. Many not opened. All my mediums, odourless solvents, etc too, unopened, for $70. And a large next-to-new easel for $60 to a local art student in university. She couldn’t find an easel anywhere during the pandemic. I felt good it was going to her. She definitely got hundreds of dollars worth in paints and supplies! It was the right decision, my hands and feet were burning just touching the tubes and I had very serious asthma all afternoon and night I couldn’t get out of with meds.
I have so much more good stuff- all mediums, papers, pens, inks, tools, paints, pencils, pastels, sprays, additives, etc. It is like a store. And beautiful huge professional canvases. Well, canvases of all sizes! I don’t think I will be able to paint them. So at some point someone is going to get a GREAT deal. But it makes me sad.
 
I'm very sorry to hear this, though it was nice to of you to give a great deal to artists who needed it. Can you switch to watercolor?
 
I'm sorry to hear of your state if health. Perhaps after eliminating some "triggers--the oils etc" maybe you'll soon feel better. I hope you can find a good place without carpet or new vinyl. Tile or wood is better for people with MCS. Best wishes to you.
 
The real McCoy. You used to be able to find these at flea markets. I have three, one smaller than this, and a huge base probably made by Union, not Gerstner. All are black-pebbled leather. None are in current use, they still have my woodworking tooks inside.

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Thank you Arty and NTL. I am seeing rare specialists as the severe E- asthma is not responding to treatment and is part of severe multiple sensitivity. I recently found out it is actually more serious. Mast Cell Activation Syndrome which is a body wide anaphylaxis, an over-reaction to everything including needed medicines. It’s a very severe immune problem and can be seen in the cells of a bone marrow test. Mast cells are everywhere so when they get triggered you get ill in correspondence to those organs. So, that and the toxic reactions of meds I do ‘tolerate’ leaves me too weak to hold a book, dress myself at times and even in heart failure. I hope to draw or use watercolour if I can muster the energy some day. The heavy prednisone is destroying my bones ( teeth, broken ribs/ soft bones, and crushing the spine), but I must use it to get any kind of breathing relief. It’s unbelievable and deadly without it. It is also causing the severe edema, and heart failure. Diuretics don’t work on me to treat that, or I have allergic responses to them. So I am really disabled now. But not quite ready to give up all my art supplies yet. It’s been life changing and humbling to be this chronically ill. Now I need a wheelchair. I still have my large blank canvases in my living room. I stare at them with a lot of plans and longing. I know you will understand that. Lol It’s the artist in me! Just not ready to cry uncle yet. And although close, I hope I don’t have to. It represents hope for me. That is a positive thing.
I hope you both are well-go out there and keep creating for me!
Musket, that is a beautiful piece.👍🏻🙂
 
It sounds as if your MDs understand the MCS as well as the rest of your situation. Yours is pretty extreme. I hope you have a friends/ family support system as well as all that's available through various agencies. Often people just do not understand the needs of MCSers. You're right, long-term. heavy prednisone use causes a lot of problems while it's helping... (I'm finally off it, myself, after numerous years, now using trelogy which is inhaled pred. plus 2 other drugs.) I'm just so sorry you're situation is so severe. I think there may be some relief after the oils are gone, and if you can find a safe place to live, it may be even a bit better. Best wishes with this. Know you're not alone, I will keep you in my thoughts, many of us will. Keep in touch as you can.
Sending gentle hugs to you. {{{{{ }}}}}
 
PaintBoss, I'm very sorry for all this, even on my part wish you all the best. you are a wonderful person and an exceptional artist, I have no words to describe the strength and intense emotion that arouses thinking of images such as your avatar, your art, there is a beauty (something transcendental and enormous that illuminates) that keeps you its unaltered strength, indeed, increases more and more, and the same strength that is in you. (so sorry that such an exceptional artist should feel this, melancholy for his art or supplies and not what he deserves, such as the joy or emotion that his works bring) wish and that he may soon get better.
 
I had no idea that you were going through such hell. I am so so sorry to hear about all this. I hope there is a way (perhaps through loved ones) that you can stay positive and persevere through the hardest parts of this until you find medications that your body will respond well to. I am thinking about you and wish I could hug you too! Maybe small sketches until you can get back to your bigger plans. I find looking at others' art brings me a lot of joy, just as much as making it at times. I'm glad the internet brings us that option. Hang in there. ♥️ 🤗
 
Humbling. It makes my Essential Tremors a trivial side show. It also makes me I ask myself "What's the big deal about not being able to draw a curved line without squiggles." Chicken shit size problem by comparison.

all the best.
 
Claude, I have a bad tremor myself (goes with all my other neurological crap I have) and I've come to like the imperfect squiggly lines I make with an unsteady hand. I think it adds a certain character to the work, like when Charles Schultz began having to draw Snoopy all shaky. I found it endearing. ;)
 
I bought a giant usps canvas rolling binful of art supplies at an auction for $1 years ago. A lot of frames from Gimbels Art department from the 60s, I think, all wood and quality corners. Several dozen full and half used paper pads of good quality and lots of watercolor paper. I actually framed and sold some of the drawings. Straight edges, t-squares, brushes, and other miscellaneous studio things that I use to this day.

Also from an auction, a huge set of Rembrandt pastels in their original wooden box for $5. I don't use them, so gifted them to another artist in my fam.

I've also been to auctions where the bidding was so high, it was more than retail, especially with student grade paints. So it just depends on who is there at that auction and what they know.
 
Claude, I have a bad tremor myself (goes with all my other neurological crap I have) and I've come to like the imperfect squiggly lines I make with an unsteady hand. I think it adds a certain character to the work, like when Charles Schultz began having to draw Snoopy all shaky. I found it endearing.

One of the ways of differentiating the legitimate art of children from that of adults employing elements of children's art is the clarity of the line. An adult imitating the look of the art of children may employ the same simplified and stylized forms... but there is a quirkiness to children's art that results from the fact that in simply drawing an oval to begin drawing a face, a child will often spend minutes "carefully" attempting to get that oval just right... and the result is a quivering line that is quite expressive. A skilled professional artist will complete that oval in one fell swoop. Every year the school district had a major student art exhibition. I could always tell which works had been polished up by the teachers.
 
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