Lamurdi's Official Blog: Stock up on ART supplies or NOT?

I have decided that it is better to buy just what I need and not to stock up on art supplies, especially if they are “perishable.”

It is hard to resist a sale. Hard to not up the online order to get free shipping. But if the ink dries out before I can use it then it was not really a savings.

I love ink in tubes. It is so easy to dispense just a little and they don’t dry out as fast as jars.

Sometimes I even cut the tubes and use every last drop.

With the speedball water based block printing ink I can cover the open end with plastic wrap and a clip and make them last even longer.

It is hard to make good prints with globby ink.

Is your studio filled with:

things that you love and use
things that inspire you
things that you might use
things that you have had for years and not used yet?

No judgement here.

When I look around my studio I realize that I have a lot of all those things. My plan is to get rid of the “might use” and “had for years” to create space for what I do.

This desire also informs my buying decisions. Because when I throw away dried up and unused supplies, if feels like I am throwing away money.