From a run to Flax. There i met with SF-artpals, Ruth and Amy, bought brushes, palettes, and gouache — which i meant to — and then papers and gifts.
$4.50 list $9.00 Kolinsky plus brush set
three rounds 590 : 1/0, #4, #6
sienna handles with gold ends
$4.80 list $6.00 Union Art camel craft brush set
mop #6, flat #2, “fan” #5, spotter 3/0, bright #6, round #5, liner #1
pearl handles
(fibers already coming loose, but at least i’ll get to figure out what i really want to use before investing)
$1.20 list $1.50 Dr Martin 30 Well Palette
It feels very flimsy, but it will be perfect with the twenty paint set — i don’t really intend to wash the wells out. I just inscribe all the names of the paints around twenty of the wells. Learning aid.
$3.20 list $4.00 Plastic palette tray 10×13
Nice different size mixing areas. More rugged than the Dr Martin wells — this one i may end up trying with the acrylics.
$21.56 list $26.95 French School Gouache set
While the 10 ml (.33 fl oz) tubes have colors like “Blue” marked on them in a large courier-like font, in smaller print cobalt is distinguished from ultramarine, and so on.