3.4.11
Will you look at my amazing Craig's List finds we got yesterday?? :) My husband had taken the day off work yesterday and we'd been planning on going for a drive to explore a bit. So we got our family drive in and picked up some great art supplies I found on Craig's List the day before. :)
At a garage sale (advertised on Craig's List), I got this huge canvas for just five bucks! If you haven't been buying art supplies lately, you have *no* idea what an amazing deal that is... a 16" x 20" canvas usually goes for that price and this one is at least 2 feet by 3 feet!
Here it is, below the print it's about to replace. :) Look at this next pic to see what's even cooler about this canvas... |
Look at that edge! |
That unique edge adds even more value to this canvas.... the lady we bought it from said it was worth $90. I know that sounds like boasting, but I think she may have been right. (Not that I would have paid that much for it!)
Now I just have to decide *what* I'm going to paint on this great canvas. :) M just told me a couple ideas he had, so we'll see what we come up with...
Now I just have to decide *what* I'm going to paint on this great canvas. :) M just told me a couple ideas he had, so we'll see what we come up with...
A man posted an ad on Craig's List selling these nine canvases and the easel in the pic below. He said just to make an offer because they had to go. |
Fifty dollars popped into my head when I saw the ad, so that's what I offered the guy, telling him he might be able to get more. Well, he took my offer, and I got this amazing studio easel, too! |
You may think I'm crazy to have two easels, but lately I've been thinking it would be handy to have two so I can work on two paintings at once. I always seem to need a break after a little work on one painting, and if I have a second going I can just go back & forth.
Plus this new easel is huge and will work great with large paintings, and the other is more light & portable so I can take it places if I want to. :)
And after all the art supply hunting & gathering yesterday, I just had to paint for a couple minutes right before I headed up to bed. (I had to try out my new paintbrush I got for fifty cents at the garage sale, along with some odds & ends of acrylic paints.)
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