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Inky T O D - When Was The Last Time You Used A Crayon?


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Okay, so this seems a little un-inky, but it isn't....

 

 

When I asked about how we each found the long and inky road that lead to FPN's door, many of us found the gateway drug of choice to be crayons and office supplies.

 

Now we are grown ups, still searching for the perfect blue.

 

Alas, when was the last time you picked up a crayon?

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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And for what reason? Hopefully, not addressing sympathy cards.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The thick crayons all made of wax - I never used them other than for utilitarian purposes (marking lumber boards and such). Pencils on the other hand....

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Somewhere in the 50s.

At that time we switched (in school) to the use of pens using the age-old beloved Skrip inkwell bottles.

 

YAY

Life is too short to drink bad wine (Goethe)

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Saturday, coloring with my grand-daughter (6).

 

 

+1..

 

 

Not only that.. I picked a box of pre-school crayons (fat little things)... but refuse to buy the "Baby-Crayons" (looks like an easter egg).. I can't imagine holding an egg will teach her proper pen holding :huh:

 

 

Let me find a pic.... Oh here...

 

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I honestly can't remember the last time I used a crayon. It's been years and years. Colored pencils however, are another story - I use them pretty regularly to draw.

 

(I love office and art supplies. :wub: )

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Chinagraph on glass and acetate, in about 1979.

The Good Captain

"Meddler's 'Salamander' - almost as good as the real thing!"

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Can you imagine that Crayons melt when left in the car, and that crayon DOES NOT come out of seat belts?

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oil pastels, a couple of weeks ago on a "Welcome Home" sign. Crayola crayons, I'm not sure -- sometime this spring or summer I think. My wife and I periodically decorate the house with signs and banners for various occasions.

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About a month ago, while waiting in a restaurant, playing tic-tac-toe with a great-niece. Somehow, she won a lot of games.

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Back when I painted watercolors, sometimes I used watercolor crayons in making the work. While watercolor, they had an opacity that was useful for fixing things. And when used dry, they could make colored textured areas.

 

btw, I don't search for the perfect blue as all blues are as perfect as they can be. :D

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Crayons- not sure.

 

Colored pencils? Today. I grabbed a box of Staedtler colored pencils about a year ago, have been using yellow and red to do some underlining in a book I am reading right now. I have used prismacolor in the past - and the yellow works very nice.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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Today!

I used it at a restaurant with my daughter.

Drawing things on the paper mat while waiting for food.

 

I'll let her draw with my fountain pen too (as long as I hold the pen with her)

She actually knows that she is not allowed to touch my fountain pens without supervision/assistance. She's 3 but she's knows.

 

 

Keiji

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This past weekend... I have grandchildren living in town, ages 10 and 5, and this past weekend the 9 y.o. was in town, too.

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