Month: November 2023

Guess who went crazy on Black Friday and bought a bunch of Roman Szmal and Micheal Harding watercolors?

That’s right…

I also got some of everything 31 purplefish had to offer.

And the best part? So I placed the large Jackson’s order on Friday… And on Sunday I found that I had a set of 12 full pans from like the art snacks inktober box like… last year? Or was it the year before? I didn’t order this year because the shipping was ridiculous and I was too lazy to do the whole ezbuy mail forwarding thing. Yeah it was last year. Just checked my account. But clearly with the paper mess and all… I didn’t have time to use any of the stuff inside. And I wasn’t really into watercolors then and barely knew any professional brands… So I looked at the pack of 12 Roman Szmal paints with suspicion… And like everything else I didn’t have time for, they stayed in the clear bubble pouch it came in and went…. Well it just laid around somewhere in the room until I cleared out a cupboard for some art stuff and it went in there and never saw the light of day again until this week.

I was NOT expecting them to be wrapped in foil paper like this, literally looking like chocolates. In a cardboard box and a plastic tray too. The bad news is I don’t have space in my palette for these… Oh wait, I could open a new palette and put them there in the mean time… But for now they are still in that cardboard box. I will now have some repeats thanks to this… >< I also have no idea how to store them all when they come.. Yeah… I bought too many… Went to taobao and got some ideas but haven’t made the purchase yet. I should buy them asap, otherwise I will have plenty of paints and no way to store them!

That’s what I am… Or what my bank account is. Zero. Kosong. 零.

Why?

I fell in love with granulating watercolors.

And also love trying out all sorts of different brands of professional grade watercolors…

And different brands of handmade watercolors.

And those granulating watercolors especially.

Oh so beautiful….

In love….

Bank account is not loving it though.

Gosh. I so very much want a whole lot of Daniel Smith Primatek watercolors. Oh so very beautiful!

And MashasWatercolors? I WANT THEM ALL!

And I also want to try beam paints and oceanpaper… All while I’m waiting for my order from 31purplefish to arrive AND I still want to get more during her black friday drop…

Yeah… I’m a little bit crazy I know….

I’ve been on a watercolor roll lately. Lots and lots of watercolors.

Both in terms of the buying and spending, and the actual doing.

Been just painting a lot of stuff lately. Like 8 or 10 watercolors paintings each day over the weekend… Loose florals, some landscapes… Just having some fun.

And as for the purchases… I have a palette full of Holbein watercolors now. Like 44 watercolors, according to my google sheet.

I’ve got a bunch of winsor and newtons as well… And a whole lot of daniel smiths… Both their extra fine watercolors and their luminance series of fun watercolors. Found that just adding a bit of shiny stuff here and there makes the painting really interesting and so… Yeah I just ended up buying a whole bunch. Visited Straits Art twice and ordered online once… Yeah. I’m deep down the rabbit hole for sure.

Also just paid like 70 bucks in gst and handling fees for a lot of schminke watercolors from jackson art… Not too sure if it was worth it compared to just buying from straits art but… Yeah… Just… felt like I’ve been there a bit too much in just like… two weeks or something so… Yeah. THEN afterwards I got very tempted by michelle harding watercolors, also sold on jackson art… Added a whole lot of them to my cart already. But for now I’m just holding my horses and putting that purchase on hold. Maybe after the renovation. Maybe never. I don’t know. I have so much professional watercolors and they will already last me years and years. I want more of course, but obviously I don’t need more.

And on top of that I ordered a whole lot of handmade watercolors… Including a whole year of watercolor preorders from boulder colors… So… Yeah. I do actually have more than enough for a long long time to come.

Now my daniel smiths are in the same pan as the holbein, and that’s just the regular watercolors. The shiny ones have been upgraded to the palette for up to 24 colors. Neither are filled yet, allowing for some bit of expansion. But not that much. I want an interference green for the D.S…. Not sure if they just didn’t have it in stock or something…

Kinda want some more holbeins too… I want colors more similar to an olive green. And I want like a proper primary red.

Hmmm… Yeah. I’m at a conference now so I’m actually in novena. Which is fairly close to orchard road. Well. Very close. I’m wondering if I should drop by later or something… But that’s also making it hard for me to concentrate on my blog post writing… So I guess I shall end it here…

But so far I’m really loving the DS and Holbein paints… W&N is good too. QOR, haven’t liked them that much so far. Got two tubes of schimnke and I loved them too… So yeah…