Thanks, Doug.
Bill
On Thursday, 15 September 2016, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Well, I’m with Max, here, as I can’t remember a single name from then
> (well one from later), & I sure don’t have a memory of colouring like this.
> So a kind of kindergarten ballad, perhaps….
>
> Doug
> > On Sep 14, 2016, at 6:38 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > C120 the shade of red in the basic dozen Derwents I would imagine, Max,
> and
> > yes, 11cents as I recall. Bit dearer now.
> >
> > https://accoblobstorageus.blob.core.windows.net/
> literature/ef80d8ea-aed3-46fd-86c2-82570c7eacbe.pdf
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wednesday, 14 September 2016, Max Richards <
> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Even though Derwents and Lakelands were not big
> >>
> >> with my generation in our schooldays, I do feel
> >>
> >> brought into your old coloring culture, Bill.
> >>
> >> So specific! names especially, whereas
> >>
> >> my efforts to recall class mates flounder and founder.
> >>
> >> Grade one, for heaven’s sake! Eleven cents,
> >>
> >> those were the days! (sure they weren’t pennies?)
> >>
> >> The layout in quatrains mostly convinces,
> >>
> >> despite some lines being ever so long.
> >>
> >> Your vocabulary of ‘nuance’ etc reaches a peak
> >>
> >> at ‘covenant’, a sort of benign grandfatherly retrospect.
> >>
> >> Max
> >>
> >> On Sep 13, 2016, at 15:33, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>
> >> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Peter 'Mouse' Milsom in grade one
> >>> had 36 Derwents, pencils of nuance
> >>> to which my dozen Lakelands
> >>> could hold no candle.
> >>>
> >>> John Link had a dozen Derwents
> >>> most in pretty good nick except
> >>> for one, a real fire engine red
> >>> worn down to a stubby inch or so.
> >>>
> >>> All those post boxes, phone booths
> >>> and rich red outfits to adorn
> >>> his created characters with. No
> >>> muted tones, just full lead pushdown.
> >>>
> >>> Andrew Kingsford outlined upper case
> >>> project headings in greylead before
> >>> splatting them with two or three bold
> >>> Derwents, not caring that he went over the edges.
> >>>
> >>> I'd borrow where I could so at least parts
> >>> of my drawings had lustre. But it pushed
> >>> friendships. Once I deepened an aqua sea
> >>> with a borrowed Derwent from Michael Kent
> >>>
> >>> who shook his head at the result,
> >>> seeing correctly that I had overplayed
> >>> my hand, the unwritten covenant:
> >>> shading only with a borrowed tool.
> >>>
> >>> After earning enough from a paper round,
> >>> I bought individual Derwents at 11 cents
> >>> a pop from the newsagent and slotted them
> >>> into my haggard Lakeland cardboard pack.
> >>>
> >>> But how could it be predicted what colours
> >>> would be needed for future page spreads?
> >>> And anyway, those best equipped -
> >>> some girls even moved up to 72 Derwents -
> >>>
> >>> produced the lamest art, so intent were
> >>> they on wearing down lead evenly,
> >>> retaining six shelves of possibility.
> >>> Linky's red outclassed the lot of us.
> >>>
> >>> bw
> >>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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