Yikes
Recvd a sale flyer from Dick Blick
Check the mind numbing (to me) choice of colors of
“soft pastels”
I have that problem too! I have the 50 color set of the Sennelier oil pastels and would love the 120 color set or, even better, get the 225 set of Holbein’s. 
I worked at an art supply store for a very long time. There were times early on when it seemed my pay was in the form of paint and brushes. Toward the end, though, I didn’t bother because I was always so exhausted after work I want doing any art anyway.
But, yeah soft pastels are an addiction.
Dick Blick is one of my favorite places on earth, and I can hardly ever go there for fear of bankrupting myself.
I have never been in one. I only allow myself online. I am afraid if do go I will walk in a few steps and embarrass myself by drooling and pointing and mewling softly. I like art supplies better than shoes and I really like shoes
I want some Copic markers baaaaaad. Not a whole lot. Just the warm gray blending set, and a red one, and a black outliner or two. I have it in my head that I could do cute little illustrations.
But only if I had the right Copic markers.
I can barely draw a stick figure, but my hands get twitchy around art supplies that I wouldn’t even know what to do with.
Yes! To me the possibility of attaining one’s own art perfection with the right art supply is similar to, when entering the makeup area in a large department store, the possibly of beauty through correct makeup selection.
Did someone say art supplies?
I’m a professional artist, and as long as I can remember, I’ve been totally addicted to art supplies. They’re my crack cocaine. Both of my parents were artists, and much of my childhood was spent stealing, and ruining, their supplies . . . until I got my own. 
Dick Blick is nothing, compared to the stores that used to exist.
Before I became an “internet only” shopper and many many years ago I shopped at Koenig’s a chain type of small art store. Before that I shopped at a wonderful art store in Worcester, Ma called C.C.Lowell. A version of it still exists; but no where near as good as the old one. I would go there and dream about being grown up and able to afford all the supplies I wanted.
No, no, no… you should be an “internet only except for art supplies” shopper.
You have to pull the caps off the markers and smell them and feel the silky drag as you swipe them across the sample scratch paper. And spend way too much time seeing and feeling and investigating everything while your friends have given up on you and are on their second beer at the bar down the block…
(Just got back from a trip to Chicago… specifically to go to POSH and Dick Blick)
never heard of the place but I am looking at the colored pencils…what to choose? :eek:
I bought myself a coloring book the other day. It has lovely finely detailed images of ocean life and plants, both real and imaginary. Yesterday I decided I would try it out so I went to my stuffed-to-the-rafters craft room to get my fine tip markers - no luck. I can’t find them anywhere. Tried colored pencils but I can’t get a fine enough line or the opaqueness that my mind’s eye desires. So (horror of horrors!!) I need to go to Joann’s at lunch today. I hope to get out relatively debt-free. Wish me luck.
ETA: I have a love affair with office/school/art supplies.
Good Luck getting out of there on a lunch hour. They are having some excellent sales. I am expecting an order from them of polymer clay. They had Premo for 2.09 for the older colors.
When I was in art school, there was a wonderful art supply store about eight blocks away. A sizable portion of my education-related debt was credit card charges at Art Media. I loved that place. I won’t let myself go near any art supply store now – much, much too dangerous.
Same here. I clicked on** CT_Damsel’s **link and started wondering what I could do with all those pretty colors. The answer is “NOTHING!”
I make up for it with yarn. Yarn is my weakness. I can’t go into Michael’s or Jo-Ann’s without wandering down the yarn aisle. Ooh, I don’t have anything in that color! Keep walking, you have bags of yarn in the closet already.
Hey psst you over there
I could show you some yarn links that will make you weep with desire.:eek:
I may be sorry, but please do share! 
I had kind of given up crocheting while I was in school but now that I’m done I need to keep busy during my free time. Yeah, that’s it, honest!
That’s about how I feel. I’m not artistic or even creative. I remember in college driving a friend to the art supply store so she could pick some stuff up. There was so much stuff I didn’t even recognize. It would like taking a ‘Can you fill my wiper fluid for me’ person on a tour of the back room of Autozone.
Anyways, I see there’s a Blick’s close to my house. My 9 year old is very creative and artistic (for her age, anyways). Maybe I’ll take her there and see if I can get any Christmas ideas out of her. Not that I’m going to get her a $70 set of markers, but some inspiration would be nice.