#popshelffinds

[dausy]

So I did another art challenge. I found some cheap art supplies at my local Pop Shelf which is essentially a fancier dollar store. I was really impressed that they had gouache paints and watercolor pencils..but mainly the gouache paints.

because professional gouache as it is is hard to find outside the internet. I mentioned elsewhere but I have a local custom framing store that sells art supplies to like..college kids..and this framing store holds your normal Bob Ross level professional paints. They have the oil paints and the old crusty papers and canvases. Its not your hobby shop like hobby lobby or michaels. But even they have like 5 tubes of regular gouache and they been sittin' there a while. Rust on them. Packaging looks 15 years old. You're lucky to live near a Blick and get you holbein acrylic gouache but even good luck finding just gouache gouache...so I was really curious about these cheap paints.

I mean there wasn't really a high expectation it was just curiousity..because why gouache? watercolors and acrylic I get..but..why..gouache!?!?

they did suck lmao. I did struggle quite a bit but I managed to successfully do a thing. I got as far as I could which was majority of base colors before I cheated and went back to my regular art supplies to do some last ditch smoothing and final touches. She came out cuter than expected.

Especially because this was kind of like..a reject..sketch. I didn't want to ruin something I actually liked with crap paints but I also just..didn't..like this drawing. What I wanted to actually do was something else but it would have been really monochromatic and I didn't think that was going to be a sufficient paint test. So kitty and birds I think I used almost every color.

[dausy]

I scrounged together some stuff for youtube. I feel like I'm treading between I want to talk about art stuff but also want to talk about life stuff. Sometimes I feel life stuff just isn't appropriate but there is a therapy in just talking.

As mentioned, husband volunteered us for trunkortreat and I'm kinda excited to get to participate in something related to the holiday. Obviously, Halloween just isn't the same as it was when I was a kid. My husband never got to participate when he was a kid because it wasn't a thing in his household and now he has interest but our area doesn't really do trickortreating. Last 2 years we've gotten zero trickortreaters period. So decorating a car seems smaller scale and if we like it, a potential to do something more creative next year.

I feel kind of icky this morning, which isn't at this point anything new. I had a doctors appointment the other day to talk about my misbehaving digestive system and got a new medication to try if I need it. Sometimes I'm not convinced its my stomach at all so.

and then yesterday I had a going-away-party that my coworkers planned for me. It was super super sweet and ofcourse I feel super guilty and anxious and they're coming up with creative ways to try and make me stay. So it is nice to be wanted. There are some things about this job that I really won't find anywhere else that were a nice luxury and I did try really hard to be a good team player even in my bad days.

My husband has to work this weekend so my plans are to probably run back out to popshelf and get some green brush pens. My birthday is next week and I kind of wanted to dress up but honestly have nothing to wear so idk idk idk I'm stressed about it.

I also want to play with the new turner watercolor set that I featured and I'll film that too. :)