The Colors of I've Been Framed, or: Roy G. Biv is a Friend of Mine

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I've babbled about this before, but only a fraction of the pleasure of going to an art supply store, especially IBF, is just looking at all the pretty art supplies, and by pretty I mean all the colors.

All the colors.

I'm not sure which is prettier, that spectrum of the ends of the Caran d'Ache watercolor pencils with all its order and nuance, or that spangly, speckly, adorably random chaos of the pencil 'lead' ends in the box immediately left of that.

You know, of course, you don't have to choose. You can say yes to both.

These encaustic color sticks are vibrant, but still muted somehow. 

Encaustic painting, in case you didn't know, is painting with pigmented wax. Those sticks seen there are small blocks of exceptionally high-quality wax with the pigment within. It's an interesting mode, but not one that's particularly for me ... but the colors? Wouldn't miss that for the world.

Roy G. Biv? Yeah. He's a friend of mine.