Tiny Daler-Rowney watercolor box
Some people can't live without Louboutins. I can't live with out paintboxes. I'm a 'pan' person not a paint tube person. The formula is different. Paint comes up on your brush more easily from a pan than from dried tube paint. Plus Europe is more pan-oriented so I came to the right place. Not just because of the Victorians took paintboxes with them as they crossed the Sahara. In the US art stores can't be bothered with tiny pans. Tubes are an easier sell. But enough paintbox trivia.
Someone sent me this book thinking I'd be interested, but its the cover that enthralled me.
This what my Kremer Pigment box looked like when it was new.
Ooopla! The before and after...
If you love watercolor paintboxes you start seeing them everywhere...like stacked Popsicles in a store window...
Or brilliantly colored dragée...
L'Eclair de Genie is pure watercolor beauty. Miam miam.
Fun matching icing colors with paintbox colors. More yum.
It must be what drives me nuts about macarons - the round disks of pure color look like they popped out of a kid's paintbox...
L'Occitane's sign is out in the street at Opera. If they just sold a product with this on it I'd buy it in a flash, but they don't. Dommage ;((
What's not to love? Slabs of color by Fabrice Moireau in his Giverny book. Drool-worthy definitely.
*Here's a hot watercolor tip! All new boxes come 'unseasoned'. When you try to mix colors they'll instantly bead up in a most unsatisfactory way. The cure? Put a strong dark color like ultramarine blue or a dark Umber brown coating on the tin and leave it. Then wash off and do again several times. NEVER take Brillo or scouring powder to your box. You'll ruin the finish pronto.
At the SIMP salon of miniatures show on Sunday this dreamy set of paintboxes make any addict's heart beat faster...
Darling N. wants to fix me up with a nice Frenchman. But she's too late! Walking round her neighborhood I fell deeply, madly for this little one. What Frenchman stands a chance against this?
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