Inga Buividavice sees watercolor as a means of calming ourselves, of slowing down. We are big believers in loving our gear, and these two kits are as loveable as can be. Once you finish your Viviva Colorsheets, you will likely start thinking about this Case for Making set. The color is superb, rich, and lasts a long time. The metal box is beautiful, small, with a dozen colors that Case for Making pulled together just for MDK. Same as above, except the watercolor set is extraordinary.Ĭase for Making is the source of these handmade, highly pigmented watercolors. If you leave this set out on a kitchen counter when staying at a fiber festival with friends, it is delightful to see what happens. This is such an easy way to begin your experiments. lets you sketch an idea before you paint. The paintbrush has a reservoir for water that means you can set up anywhere.Īnd a Modern Daily Knitting pencil from Tennessee’s Musgrave Pencil Co. The Khadi Papers sketchbook is the same one that Dee Hardwicke uses. Divider pages keep the colors from touching each other. Sixteen surprisingly bright colors-a little goes a long way with these rich pigments. We’d never heard of watercolors in a booklet, so these Viviva Colorsheets really caught our imagination. We’ve put these kits in simple muslin bags for ease in toting. (All thanks to DG Strong, our resident serious watercolorist, for pointing us toward fine materials.) So that’s why we have not one but two sets of watercolors available to you in our MDK Shop: a very simple set and a very fine set. An object loaded with a painter’s imagination. Filled with Dee’s watercolor sketches of flowers, patterns, color ideas. It was exquisite: a chunky book with deckle edges, thick paper, a stitched binding. Working with watercolors is something that is available to us all-it’s meditative, unpredictable, and it allows us to explore color in a way that is totally different from knitting.įor me, the watercolor thing started the minute Dee Hardwicke held up one of her notebooks during a meeting when we were planning our Field Guide with her. Why are we all of a sudden offering watercolor kits?įriends, it’s so good.
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