Me go shoppin!

I cannot tell you all I bought with some earned money but I started with a lot of art material.
There is a small but long canvas for a planned jellyfish picture in the very left. As you can see lots of DVDs, finally Ponyo! And a part of the cremaster 3. I thought it might be the whole film part three at last but no. I saw 3 -5 in cinema and there seems no chance to ever get all of them on DVD. Well it is art not just movies :( (And Gilmore Girls for the enjoyment).
The interview with the vampire audio book is only a short version (there exists a longer version though). A watercolor postcard pad to fill and a long staple gun because I started making my own sketching books. Metallic colors and some grandiose pens in my favourite color from Faber Castell,
Light kobalt turquoise. A paper blanks shimmering small book, as my take always with me miniature book is almost filled (started in January).
Pentel color brush always a good choice, you should try it!
And there in the front is this remarkable ballpoint pen with five light colors and a mechanical pencil. That one was a gift.
Shopping places were Berlin and Göttingen.

Last but not least I got the german version of "The bird king" by Shaun Tan! I recommend it for everyone who likes strange drawings and pictures. It is not a story but rather a peek into the personal sketchbooks of the master genius (which he probably would deny).

Beste wishes, Nathalie

Oh, I forgot the encre phosphorescente a french ink that glows in the dark, by J. Herbin

I have yet to run some test if I find a nib to use it with.

Watercolors - artist, book, material

Might it be you know Stephanie Pui-Mun Law?
A great watercolor artist and ongoing inspiration for me.
I wish I could afford one of her elaborated watercolor pictures.
At least I got one of her books for working in a book-store and recommend it
to you as her technique is explained very good and easy to follow.
I have this one: Dreamscapes 1 and followed very close one of the basic tutorials on page 153 (Starry sky at dusk) and gifted it to my aunt :)

The paper she uses is Strathmore Illustration board, that I was finally able to afford. It would be lovely to never use any other "paper" again. On the starry sky I still used Torchon watercolor paper.
In the next pic you can see my workplace right now and some small pics I work(ed) on.

A sleeping baby in the moss (inspired by James Browne`s ACEOs), yet to be finished, a character - my first pic on illustration board, and the flow on it is great! A lady with red hair, sending death rays through her eyes. I used my new red antique ink from Rohrer and some colored pencils. The big white paper already has a sketch on it, hardly to see now. I use the light blue lead pencils Pilot Color Eno for sketching most of the time.

Sound like some advertisement here:) I am a art material fetishist and buy some new stuff when I can.
And mostly quality materials. If you ever would like to support me, you can ask if one of these pictures is available. They are not too costly for sure.