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beware my psychic power!
While I was out tooling around yesterday, I had what I can only call a premonition -- almost like a little voice in me, saying, “If you go to HomeSense today, you will find gouache”. For those of you who don't know, HomeSense is a discount store that seems to deal in off brands, end of runs, and other odd things. Basically, what they stock is whatever they could find that day. You never know when a new item will show up, or another one will disappear. So you can't go there counting on finding anything.
But I decided to heed my inner voice, went there, and lo and behold but what did I find one lone example of?
Mont Marte is a halfway decent brand, so extra score.
Moreover than that [as one of my art profs used to say], I also found this:
Just the day before, I was reading about mixed bristle brushes. Watercolour brushes [and consequently gouache brushes, which are the same] are usually either natural (animal hairs) or synthetic (nylon fibers). Each has its own subtle strengths and weaknesses, and different people prefer different kinds. But I was reading about mixed brushes, where it said they offer a blend of the advantages of both. I thought that sounded interesting, and I was curious enough to want to try them out and see what I thought. But I didn't recall seeing them anywhere.
Until now. Yet another bonus score!
But I decided to heed my inner voice, went there, and lo and behold but what did I find one lone example of?
Mont Marte is a halfway decent brand, so extra score.
Moreover than that [as one of my art profs used to say], I also found this:
Just the day before, I was reading about mixed bristle brushes. Watercolour brushes [and consequently gouache brushes, which are the same] are usually either natural (animal hairs) or synthetic (nylon fibers). Each has its own subtle strengths and weaknesses, and different people prefer different kinds. But I was reading about mixed brushes, where it said they offer a blend of the advantages of both. I thought that sounded interesting, and I was curious enough to want to try them out and see what I thought. But I didn't recall seeing them anywhere.
Until now. Yet another bonus score!