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Yes that’s right I have gotten way deep into [mechanical, drafting, drawing, art] pencils and pens as I build out the studio more for our family.
Luckily we have a shop right down the street “DIN SOR” (which means pencil in Thai) which carries a lot of good quality stuff and I’m surprised at times to see what they have.
They also see that I do purchase quite a bit of stuff and anything high and they have I will definitely buy.
My hope is that I can start placing orders there and receiving some more specialized stuff regularly such as gouache And different types of paper and it would be great if they carry oil paints but that might be asking too much.
One thing I realize is that I got involved in oil painting way too early without having any exposure to a lot of the smaller and easier to manage mediums with which I could explore various themes, media, materials, surfaces, techniques and subject matter.
But each time I add something into the studio and streamline it and get it set up so my daughter can use it with us minimum impact as possible in terms of cleanup or general disorder that poor planning triggers I see that once I observe and reorganize things she can just come in and experience a new medium like pastels and area remains in good shape and orderly, so I have just been building up from there.
The most surprising thing that she did was a super impressive replication of a SpongeBob SquarePants character and it was so perfect a copy that it was hard to believe that she had done it (we thought for s second maybe her older sister) but Mom was right, she has a ‘certain line’, -sure enough it was her work.
And she did this off of just watching videos and a lot of times she does not even pause the video when she is looking for the shapes to copy.
So her success sort of fuels me keeping the studio going while I try to build up my own bodies of work which tend to go a lot more slowly due to the air more elaborate scale.
The effect of working with her in the studio is that I’m sort of meeting her halfway with all of these different media and then checking them out myself or vice versa I discover something and realize this would be great for her to work with as the SpongeBob cartoon replica was a result of just handing her a 0.38 gauge ink pen that had excellent control and she went up creating a master work from it just sitting there testing it out for the first time.
This is basically leading us through all of the illustration tools and now I am starting to understand which pens the various artists use and being exposed to a lot of new artist that I had never even known about before because I’m looking in different media now as opposed to just the world of oil painting.
Here’s KIM JUNG GI and the PENTEL ARTS Portable Pocket Brush Pen he uses below:
KIM JUNG GI PENTEL ARTS PORTABLE POCKET BRUSH PEN
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