ニューヨーク市立で５店舗もある画材屋さんに行ってきました！！！ デザイン学校や美術学校がたくさんあるので、需要は高い。広い店内に筆、絵具、キャンバス、スケッチブック、ペンなどなどがたくさん、久しぶりにわくわく感を味わいました！ 面白かったのは、重ねて盛り上げて使う絵具？というか材料…というか。立体的なものになる。青い鳥綺麗だった、壁に飾りたい。
コピックスケッチもあったーー！ しかも色が大充実。さすが。しかし…、一本8ドルという値段にビビりました。6本以上買えば6.6ドル、12本以上買えば5.24ドルとか書いてあるけど…それにしても。コピック6色セットは37ドルでした。6色じゃ何もできないし。どんな人が買っていくんだろう…学生は無理だと思う。それでも日本に来るよりは全然安いんだけど。
ピグママイクロンペンは、予想に反して2.7ドルとお買い得でしたー。しかも色と太さがたくさんあり、試し描きもできる。髪がうまく描けるペンがほしかったので試し描きしまくりました。楽しい～～ ロイヤルブルーもなかなかいい色。しかし、やはりセピアが一番…。セピアは売り切れでどの太さも全くなかった。残念。しかしセピアの良さが証明されているともいえる。黒の筆ペンがなくて残念。ピグママイクロン、黒の0.20 mm を買いました。0.20ミリと0.25ミリの違いは大きい。ピグマの細いのは、先がつぶれていたり折れていたりするのが何本かあった。力入れすぎ！ もう商品価値がない…。ペン先に力をかけないで、という掲示はなかった気がする。大丈夫だろうか。絵を描く人でさえ、扱いに注意を要するミリペン。
その他いろいろありましたがまあ高い。スケッチブックなんて、10ドルは下らない。紙製品は本当に高いなあ。質は良いんでしょうけれど。って値段の話ばかり。日本の優秀な文房具がほんと恋しい。
ファーバーカステル社のポリクロモス色鉛筆がばら売りしていたので試し塗ができたのが嬉しかった。プロ御用達、色鉛筆の最高峰と聞いていたのでわくわく！ ところが、一層目はきれいでスムーズで良いのだが…二層目以降が塗りにくい。ワックス分が多くてつるつるになっている気がする。重ね塗りしてもあまりきれいにならなかった…のが意外だった。技術が足りないせいでしょうか？ 使いこなせる人は使いこなせるのかも。試し描きの紙のため？ その紙は、表は普通だけど裏はにじまないようにワックスでコーティングしてあった。けどよくわからない…。ともかくも、期待していたような塗り心地ではなかったのが残念。色辞典の方が私には合っているのかもしれない。ともかくもいろいろ見れて良かった。楽しかった！！ 人が少なくてゆっくり見れたのも◎。
There are so many design and art schools in downtown - and so are art supply stores. It was exciting to visit one of the major art store in NYC. I went to Blick Art Materials, where there were canvas, paints, pens, sketch books, brushes, sprays... many kinds of art materials. One interesting material I found was a kind of paint that stacks up and makes a 3D-kind of art. The blue birds looked really lively, which will be a good decorative item on the wall. It's interesting.
I was pleasantly surprised by the rich assortment of Copic Sketch lineup. BUT one costs $7.99!! If you buy 6, it will be $6.60 each, if 12, $5.24 each. But still.. it will cost a fortune if you want to buy a decent number of markers to be able to color your drawing. It's super expensive!!! I don't know how many people or how often people buy those markers.. 6-marker sets were also displayed, and they were $37.39. Just SIX markers! You can't really do anything with just 6 markers. It's a luxurious item.
However, pigma micron pens were reasonable, $2.79, better than my nearby hobby market. There were many colors and sizes as well, although sepia was all sold out. I tried black, brown and blue. Brush pends were also nice. If a black brush was available, I would have bought one. Sepia is the best color in my opinion, and it was no surprise that all sepia was sold out. Oh well.. I'm happy to get a 0.2 mm pen! I can draw fine lines like hair with this pen now! As I was trying many pigma pens, a few had a damaged tip and not usable. Apparently someone applied too much pressure on that. Those pens are super delicate to even a dexterous and careful artists.. I need to be very careful not to pick those damaged pens to buy.
Generally, everything was expensive. Sketchbooks and notebooks are more than $10 at least. It costs a lot to be an artist. Again, I miss Japanese stationery that are reasonably priced and of high quality.
I also found Faber-Castel Polychromos color pencils, the most prestigious, high-end version of them. I was happy to try them as I've read and heard many good things about them. However... I thought it was kind of oily.. True that it is easy to do the first layer. It goes very smoothly on the paper, but the second layer and onwards, it gets slippery and coated with oil, and the colors do not mix very well, well not as well as I thought they would. Hmm.. is this really what the artist like to use? I wasn't sure. Maybe I don't have the technique to fully utilize them. Or maybe the paper I used wasn't the best. It was a piece of paper to try pens with a normal touch on the drawing side, but it had a wax coating on the back. It shouldn't have made too much of a difference, but I have no way to check. I prefer irojiten to do more layers, which are critical in any coloring, needless to say. So, it's decided that I'm going to get irojiten in June!!! Glad to try Polychromos beforehand. Happy with my visit overall.
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