Artists have a problem: they are addicted to art supplies. It’s like a drug. Paints, brushes, papers, books, pencils, sharpeners, pastels, pens. Pens. Pens. Markers.
It’s crazy. Two things happen with them:
You’re really excited and immediately make whatever new thing into your primary stable of tools.
Then, everything else lies fallow.
Paints dry out. Papers get stained. Markers get forgotten.
Tonight, we’re initiating a new ceremony. Starting with the pens and markers we’re going to dump then ALL into one big bin and watch an old movie while we got through them and TEST each one as for it’s keep-worthiness. We’ll separate them into three categories.
1. KEEP KEEP KEEP. this thing is amaze amaze amaze.
2. Eh, it’s okay, but I’m never going to use it, will you? GIVE IT AWAY!! Our loss is your gain! Well, someones. We’ll probably give them to kids so they can draw on their parent’s wall’s with a $20 Molotow 15mm marker instead of the 4¢ they usually use.
3. Trash: dry junk, unrecoverable.
Think it will be a fun ritual and I’ll do away with carrying around 30-40 markers that I rarely or never use.
