Craft Works - Let's Get Creative!
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Great question, @Finn666, I'm happy to provide more detail, thanks for asking! The short answer is that I'm spending way way way too much money on my materials, papers, pencils, pastels, blenders, sharpeners (I will never tell what sharpener I use because they are discontinued and I have been hoarding them for years ;D) and varnishes. It's all money out of pocket, but I do it for the love of the handmade and unique. I just want to make things I think are useful. So I work clever odd jobs to keep me alive barely. Starving artists are real! Per month, it's probably half my rent, ~500, if I went full on artist-mode doing it all day everyday, it would easily be around $1000+/month.
Primarily, I use two types of colored pencils. There are exceptions, but the two I use are the Faber-Castell Polychromos, and the Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901. These two are by far the highest quality lightfast color available. The Polychromos are my workhorses at $1.75-2.50/pencil depending on if I buy In bulk or locally, and the 6901's are my finishers at $3.80-4.50/pencil. The amount of pencils I have been going through lately is staggering, but that's a good thing!!
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Here's a pic of just the pencils I've completely worn down over the last two months. These are all now too small to fit into my manual sharpener. The colorful ones are the Faber-Castell, and the ones with the cedar wood are the Caran d'Ache. I included a full size pencil for reference.
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Marvelous idea, G! This will definitely happen :-*, don't know when though 8). I think it can improve….I got some ideas...maybe call it "The Special G Pencil Version"
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That's a work of art right there. Adam, you mount them on a decent piece of card in a "random" arrangement, and I'll buy it there and then…...
This
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@adam313 really nice work.
"When there is no pebble tossed"
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"Let there be songs to fill the air!"
Thank you all so much for the kind words!
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One of my all time favorites. I get my fix now through the Professor and his Deadpod.
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This is on the same paper as The Purps (^^above), but it's five years older! Cotton paper ages like cotton jeans
This one is still going strong, but just about to retire
Earlier in its evolution:
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The last step in the process!! Ultra-high definition imaging:
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The Blue is officially retired! An IHForum exclusive one-off peace. Here's the raw, un-cropped, minimized .jpg version (the original .tif is 600MB
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Looks really great!
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new cardholder
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Saltdough -
Small update, added a few more layers:
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workin on the brown for the last studio session in Colorado. More to come in the next few weeks
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Shipping out The Blue today!! Over-engineered was my starting point to get it overseas safely. But UPS was not amused
asking just to get a hold off it, nothing less. 
