When you accompany a friend to an art supply store so she can purchase a flesh-colored acryllic to cover up her nose ring for her upcoming med school interview (no, makeup didn't work), sometimes you end up being Inspired to Create Art. (This can especially occur when both a small canvas and a set of oil pastels are on sale for a dollar each. There's a cheap, starving artist in everyone.)Oil pastels, however, smudge quite easily. They stick to your fingers and smear all over everything when you accidentally drop the canvas and then pick it up, utilizing fingers smudged with different colors of pastels. They also leave streaks in the bathroom sink, which still has wax residue from your last cheap, time-consuming project.
The finished product might look like something created by the brightest toddler in your sister's preschool class. But it's all good! It was messy and fun and different.
Maybe Utrecht has tubes of oil paint on sale!!!!!!
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I think Barnes & Noble often has cool little starter kits for various artistic type things, and they're generally pretty inexpensive. I got my sister a neat calligraphy set - it comes with a book of instructions, several nibs, ink & probably some other stuff. I think they have ones for painting too.
I obviously don't visit enough - I love the painting! I need to get canvases so we can have a painting party already and drink housewarming wine!
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