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]> wrote:
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> 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]>
> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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,
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>> 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:;>> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>
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