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Traditional Art Supply Question
5 months ago
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***** PLEASE, PLEASE GO CHECK MY SCRAPS! *****
It is for all my WORKS IN PROGRESS, GIFTS, and stuff I am just banging off as practice, as well as photos, and art from others.
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~ BEGIN ~ Did Prismacolor suddenly get the plague or something?
For a while now, they have been hard to track down, and now my usual suppliers have all stopped selling Prisma for their own cheep house brand which is not worth even the $1 they are trying to sell it for.
I would completely switch to Copics, but those are $12 each on a good day, plus I have become quiet used to how Prisma works.
The Prismacolor (i keep wanting to put a U in the Colour part) website still shows them selling stuff directly if I don't mind spending a small fortune on colours i don't want to just get the few I do need.
I could try digitally colouring more, and probably will have to in the coming years, but my digitial set up is old, small, and still runs on windows 7... Either way I feel sort of screwed. Or I just go back to pencil crayons.
Any constructive advice welcomed
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For a while now, they have been hard to track down, and now my usual suppliers have all stopped selling Prisma for their own cheep house brand which is not worth even the $1 they are trying to sell it for.
I would completely switch to Copics, but those are $12 each on a good day, plus I have become quiet used to how Prisma works.
The Prismacolor (i keep wanting to put a U in the Colour part) website still shows them selling stuff directly if I don't mind spending a small fortune on colours i don't want to just get the few I do need.
I could try digitally colouring more, and probably will have to in the coming years, but my digitial set up is old, small, and still runs on windows 7... Either way I feel sort of screwed. Or I just go back to pencil crayons.
Any constructive advice welcomed
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<Elected person's name redacted> may have something to do with it being hard to find them. However, maybe https://www.dickblick.com/products/.....lored-pencils/ could help out?
I hit my local art supply chain and got a new brain I will try out. About the same price as Prismacolors, but not quiet the same tips.
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I did find some on Amazon by checking their official site https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003178XM.....=ATVPDKIKX0DER
But seems to be sold in packs now
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Right now I am trying Winsor & Newton which is a UK brand. I just bought them and will use them on the next commission.
Thanks for the info, I will check out that brand as well.
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I don’t use prismacolor markers other than having an old set my mum gave me so I can’t say what’s happening to them otherwise, but there’s lots of other good brands out there to try! I think Promarkers have a similar feel
I did not see Ohuhu here, but I am trying this UK brand instead, Winsor & Newton.. I am told they are very Prisma-esque.
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I talked to the art supply store, and they told me there, that PrismaColor is still being sold, but they have completely pulled out of Canada it seem, and started doing this about 3 years ago. I can still find their pencil crayons at least, which I love.
I am trying the British Brand now, Winsor & Newton.
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