Saturday, January 12, 2008

about your art supplies


Self 01, originally uploaded by puerperil.

The people who make your paper, Canson, developed the first hot air balloon in 1783
Jack Richeson once almost beat a man to death with a T-square (he's not quite as bad as Carrivaggio. read this)
And the white paint tubes that are metal on the inside are called Glaminate tubes. They're actually metal laminated with plastic, but that's kind of obvious. But did you know that they were developed in 1980 for Liquitex?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

mkay--
i knew that il signor caravaggio (spoken with a correct Italian accent, mind you) ran someone through
but didn't know the details.
pretty cool.

and i'll go and look at him again, now that you bring him up again.