Oh man you did it. I remember. . . You know that Bestine oil can thing was one of my most valuable tools. Cleaned up the wax.
Hey! I still use those tech pens but, in a post -modernist style. Great old tools!
Now wait a minute, I?m only 30 and I know what everything is AND I?ve used it all at one time or another. Am I a fuddy-duddy?
There is a lot of craft being lost as these tools go ?out of fashion?. That?s not to say that there aren?t huge benefits and additional capabilities that are inherent in the digital tools we add to the arsenal.
Oh, and don?t forget Ruby Lith transfer sheets.
oh baby, what I used to imagine I would do to be able afford both sets of DrPhMartin colors back in art school?
I used that same pencil sharpener last night, and much of that other stuff I use fairly often. I love well made things, tools, art supplies, home items.
David, You?re not a fuddy-duddy, unless I am. I?m only 25 and I know all of them. Traditional mediums are so much fun ? I don?t think I will ever fully convert to digital.
LOL!!
Surely people still use these tools?!! I do, though the refillable technical pen deserves to be forgotten. Mine were hurled against the wall at every outing.
This was my best friend back in the day.
http://www.forgottenartsupplies.com/?what=artifacts&image_id=64&cat=52
Charley?
Thanks from the bottom of my Best-Test Cement-clogged heart for featuring the Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies! Much appreciated. And thanks to all of you who commented. The Museum seems to hit a nerve in many of us, regardless of age. I had not much in mind when I started it as a little side gallery when I was blogging on Drawger.com. But as it kept gaining speed, I realized that beyond just art supplies, the Museum seems to represent some sort of threshold where technology transformed us all.
Please feel free to drop by the joint as often as you like, day or night? there?s always something new to see!
Yours Lou-ly,
Lou Brooks
Museum Founder, Curator & Night Watchman
I?ve used everyone of these. Some of them still. I think all students should learn to do things by ?hand? in case the power goes off when there is a critical deadline :-)
Yeh, and Cow Gum, who could forget it !!
Actually, the issue with the traditional media, for me, was quickly
disappearing supplies, and a reduction in quality. I was an airbrush illustrator for some twenty five years, but I had an increasingly difficult time obtaining high quality smooth board, and parts for a range of airbrush. Many suppliers were faced with having to commit to two container loads, which, in New Zealand would be almost impossible to sell !
With initial reluctance, I bought a Mac, plus the relevant software, and have not looked back ? but this post has certainly jogged a few warm memories
Letraset ? I still have a draw full :)
Almost ALL.OF.THEM. In my studio. I still use them, but for that rubber cement. I?ve never used it.
I am so jealous of Brian ? all that letraset ? I still have the huge 1980?s catalogue with its beautiful spiral bound bright yellow cover (and lots of little asterisk dotted throughout on favourite alphabets) ? but alas no letraset.
That?s funny ? I still use everything shown here except the Letraset and rapidograph nibs, and I still have those! Damn, am I that antiquated?
And, my Dr. Martin bottles (additions to that set shown) still have the price stickers on them ? $1.17 for #14A black from Pearl Paint on Canal Street, and $1.79 for 28b Sepia, from Utrecht. What are they now, around $6 or $7, right?
I still have or have had all but 1 from the pics here.
I still use the ellipse guides every so often, same with the ink pen nibs and the set with the ruling pen.
Had a rapidograph pen used it once didn?t clean it out good enough?
great memories
I always hated technical pens anyway. You?re missing a haberule to do your type spec. ; )
Yeh,
I got one of those ! In Fact my steel Type Rule, 5, 6,8,10 and 12 Point size on it is one of my prized possessions, although I used it solely for painting curves with a brush !
Mentioning brushes, the best brushes I always used were Windsor and Newton Series 3a, elegant long fine sables that kept their point until they just wore out ! A sad day when I could no longer buy them !
I went looking in the back of one of my drawers and sure enough ? found a huge package of unopened Letraset alphabets. I still have a lot of those items and use them. But you?ve left off one item ? the hot wax heater. When I was in the business back in the 60?s, we laid down type and images with wax. I still get nostalgic for the ?smell? of it as it represents the newspaper business as it used to be. Fabulous post which I shared on FB
You?ll find waxers and glues here: http://www.forgottenartsupplies.com/?what=artifacts&cat=53
Source: http://www.linesandcolors.com/2012/02/17/the-museum-of-forgotten-art-supplies/
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