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Playing under the covers. January 21st, 2019
PHOTO BY ME (Thecumulativedepiction)
The craft store where I used to buy my colored pencils closed down last summer. Yes, I miss Crafts 2000, even if it was 35 miles away and a trek to the store basically took half a day. Why? Well, shit, that store had EVERYTHING! But really, because these pencils were like 77¢ a piece. Walk into any art or craft store that sells them individually and they retail for $1.29 to $1.99. I used to make a yearly pilgrimage and buy like 100+ pencils.
So, now, like a schlub, the only way to get cheap pencils is to buy them in sets. Believe me, I’ve acquired like 4 different tins of Prismacolors in the last year, ranging from 12 to 150.
The problem with someone else selecting my pencils is that I don’t really need duplicates of some of these colors considering that I draw birds, flowers, trees, and woodland creatures. Colors that are insanely useful are black, white, French gray 90%, warm gray 50%, cloud blue, mineral orange, and french gray 30%. Yeah, these days I don’t get a lot of use out of yellow chartreuse or spring green.
Also, if adult coloring is what brought you to Prismacolors, let me give you some advice. I’m an illustrator, and this has been my media of choice for 20 years. It’s not your imagination, there are colors that SUCK! As in you’ve discovered that the only good pencil sharpener is made by Fiskars (it’s true, I hoard them), but there are pencils where the lead just breaks all the damned time. Yeah, some pigments when mixed with wax don’t work well. Serial lead breakage offenders are marine green, olive green, pale sage, black, blue slate, and bronze. For real though, Fiskars makes the only good sharpener. The product is see-thru colored plastic, shaped like a circle, and has a sharpener for big pencil and normal pencil. Pro tip: if your pencil keeps breaking, then sharpen it in the big pencil end very carefully. Shorter leads usually stay in place longer.
NATURAL GROWTH
March 8th, 2025
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Sol, On Polaroid (fun nights, with some drinks)
August 4th, 2025
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Beautiful Body. July 12th, 2019
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Bedtime view
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