I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, but I rarely throw anything away. My collection of drawing inks is a really good example, in that photo above only two bottles were bought last year – the rest I’ve had since I was 18. That’s over twelve years, and they weren’t new when I got them either (they were given to me by my art teacher when I was in sixth form). I did actually have a bit of a cull this time last year and threw out the ones which had completely dried up, or that I couldn’t open, but the rest are still here.
On Sunday I went to the art shop and my fella treated me to a new set of inks, and oh my they are lovely.
Let’s have a closer look at them shall we?
They’re Winsor & Newton so they’re good quality inks, and as an added bonues the boxes are gorgeous! (The labels on the bottles themselves are also lovely).
Last year I did treat myself to another Winsor & Newton set, which contained (amongst other things) four bottles of ink.
I have to admit I’d forgotten about those when I was checking my ink supplies. Oops. Anyway it does mean that my ink collection now looks like this:
Is it really bad that I take an obscene amount of pleasure in just staring at the pretty boxes? Still, as pretty as they are they’re made to be used, so use them I will. I had a bit of a play and did a quick (and very bad) sketch of Tanah Lot, and I think I’ll have a bash at some other views later this week.
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