tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post4374709864609821107..comments2024-03-18T07:23:32.809-04:00Comments on Gurney Journey: The Old Drawing TableJames Gurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-77524952911574819532011-09-12T16:25:25.685-04:002011-09-12T16:25:25.685-04:00I really love your drafting table. The style of yo...I really love your drafting table. The style of your space has a really antique and retro feel that never goes out of style. Looks like an awesome place to inspire and drive creativity.OfficeAnythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16893924658572069270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-16372719231132134632010-04-01T10:59:26.373-04:002010-04-01T10:59:26.373-04:00I got my first drafting table when I was 10 for my...I got my first drafting table when I was 10 for my birthday, and kept it up through college. I gave it to my little sister when I graduated Art Center though, at the age of 25. <br /><br />Other than that, the thing I hold onto is my first copy (now unreadable due to broken spine) of "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way," which I was given at the age of 8 by my dad's former girlfriend, Nancy. <br /><br /><br />--frankFrankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13673368747513621239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-70092888672620513362010-03-30T21:09:45.214-04:002010-03-30T21:09:45.214-04:00Ah, I have a big old wooden drawing board that my ...Ah, I have a big old wooden drawing board that my parents gave me when I graduated college. It's had all kinds of damage done to it, but I still use it.<br /><br />But my oldest item is my painting pallet that belonged to my great aunt. She gave it to me when I was twelve and it really is in bad shape. That's the item that I keep telling myself I'm going to retire but I just never seem to replace it...Ben Hatkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13128090224957401149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-81927157582673414402010-03-30T12:59:12.926-04:002010-03-30T12:59:12.926-04:00Hi James! I too hold onto an old no-name brand dr...Hi James! I too hold onto an old no-name brand drafting/craft table. I saved up money from mowing the neighbor's lawn when I was 13 and got it right before entering High School... I'm now graduating College with an art degree. It's been on two cross country road trips (taking up my entire car), and seen probably a million art projects; is covered in paint, x-acto blade marks, gesso and glue, but I'll never get rid of it. <br /><br />I also hold onto a piece of cardboard that I did my first acrylic painting on. It holds a lot of memories as well... I did a portrait of my now husband on that cardboard... and it to has traveled the country.... It's splattered in many different color palettes of paint from many different projects!Manda Tarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17998865412422101103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-71296198078477894502010-03-29T15:58:44.750-04:002010-03-29T15:58:44.750-04:00Thanks, everyone, for all these wonderful recollec...Thanks, everyone, for all these wonderful recollections. And sorry I forgot to put "drawing table" and "easel" in the poll list. They probably would have gotten high marks.James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-11583200586333186072010-03-29T12:05:05.332-04:002010-03-29T12:05:05.332-04:00I missed the poll but it looks like artists tend t...I missed the poll but it looks like artists tend to be slightly attached to their aged supplies. I have an old drawing board that I bought in high school that is still with me. The clips have long broken off and there are marks and paint in all the corners. It's probably, dare I say, 40 years old. Have a copy of Loomis's Fun with a Pencil that I was given 50+ years ago. Both will go in my coffin.The Art of Kim Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11725289404334038843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-13050614343610739272010-03-29T00:25:07.214-04:002010-03-29T00:25:07.214-04:00I have a sketch box of cake watercolors that has b...I have a sketch box of cake watercolors that has been with me for 12 odd years... along with it a pair of compact kolinsky sable brushes. The brushes still get a lot of use, the sketch box, not quite as much... It's run out of a few pigments, and I need to devote some time to letting some tube colors dry in the wells! My wife got them for me as a gift.frostfyrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12218411416247566367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-60889106655551203092010-03-28T02:40:25.503-04:002010-03-28T02:40:25.503-04:00I was 18 and visiting my High School Art Teacher, ...I was 18 and visiting my High School Art Teacher, just one year after I'd graduated. I noticed that an Easel was missing and asked her what had happened to the one that I'd painted, the one with the purple box. <br /><br />The screws were stripped and it had been thrown into the dumpster by a few muscular kids who had volunteered. I used a crescent wrench to take it apart and fit it into the hatchback of my 1987 Nissan 200sx.<br /><br />http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-YU6voFH9vc/S4JP363BDAI/AAAAAAAAAXA/AhXX0Xsmvrk/s1600-h/DSCN6342-2.jpg<br /><br />It still works great, and I've routinely got a painting on it. It's been with me ten years.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15459196797883540514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-37117258118363504462010-03-26T22:14:43.327-04:002010-03-26T22:14:43.327-04:00My dad, an artist, died in 1978. I used his drawin...My dad, an artist, died in 1978. I used his drawing table for several years. It, too, was splattered in paint and ink and full of pinholes, and its surface had been scored by many an X-acto blade... but it got lost in the shuffle somewhere along the way. It is one of my greatest regrets. I wish I still had it.Allison Steinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17767783548571442607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-36453018111003867422010-03-26T14:29:15.128-04:002010-03-26T14:29:15.128-04:00Hi James Gurney! I totally agree with you! If you ...Hi James Gurney! I totally agree with you! If you live very much time with something, you cannot just throw it.<br /><br />P.S. James! if you want you can found yourself in my last post! :)Eugen Caitazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13159056555310099138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-88042127700614366652010-03-26T13:46:48.538-04:002010-03-26T13:46:48.538-04:00ooooooo and there is the box my dad made to hold a...ooooooo and there is the box my dad made to hold a palette and paints, and brushes and such for me when I went off to school.<br /><br />I will stop now because if I keep remembering, I will keep adding more......but those are the basics.....and will always be there for meTracy Flynn Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12593665068576018101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-85129105597342157262010-03-26T13:42:42.572-04:002010-03-26T13:42:42.572-04:00oh yeah.......I also have two very old stemware gl...oh yeah.......I also have two very old stemware glasses that I have been using to hold the water for my inks and watercolours. One my mom got out of a laundery soap box, don't know the year, but the stem is slightly bent, and the other I have no idea where I got it just that it seems to have always been there by my side.Tracy Flynn Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12593665068576018101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-11697252377382617972010-03-26T13:36:51.364-04:002010-03-26T13:36:51.364-04:00I have the drawing table my folks gave me for Chri...I have the drawing table my folks gave me for Christmas one year, I believe I was around 15 or so, and have kept that as well as an old desk lamp that was my moms. It doesn't work now, but is still screwed to the top of my table, along with its replacement, one from the 30's or 40's maybe, hers was from I believe the 50's. <br /><br />If I could find more of those lamps I would buy them up.....they are the best.Tracy Flynn Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12593665068576018101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-7104476923644568492010-03-26T12:26:36.827-04:002010-03-26T12:26:36.827-04:00I love how we artists fixate on a certain thing. F...I love how we artists fixate on a certain thing. For me, I've got a drafting table that was left behind by a coal mine that was on my dad's land but went bankrupt when I was twelve. I painted over some of the old grease and coal stains about ten years ago.Joe Hoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06749914594900452516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-84166919681302933802010-03-26T11:43:12.475-04:002010-03-26T11:43:12.475-04:00I have a pencil case that I have had since I was i...I have a pencil case that I have had since I was in elementary school. It's got holes in it, the zipper is barely holding on for dear life and there are faded words scrawled on the side of it from when I was a kid saying things like "hands off!" and "don't touch!"<br /><br />I still kind of feel that way...Grayhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108328909189478669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-54265834500996782792010-03-26T10:00:49.333-04:002010-03-26T10:00:49.333-04:00Oops. My watercolor paper studio item doesn't...Oops. My <i>watercolor paper</i> studio item doesn't fit the original question, because, even though it's old and sits around as a constant reminder, it's not "being used". :/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10525815488895838293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-1364337028617575802010-03-26T09:48:52.750-04:002010-03-26T09:48:52.750-04:00mMy ruler. It's not just a ruler ... it's...mMy <b>ruler</b>. It's not <i>just</i> a ruler ... it's my ruler with the original 10 layers of masking tape on the back from 25 yrs. ago, to lift the edge off the paper for drawing ink lines, etc.<br /><br />Then there's my <b>enamel butchers tray</b> (the kind that warps in the middle for the "blood" to flow to the outside edge of the pan). I was my palette for watercolors, gouache, etc. Would be hard to find a replacement now-a-days. Love it.<br /><br />There are other things that will never leave the studio. The <b>wooden posable figure</b> handed down to me, that most artists have but no one <i>really</i> uses except to put funny costumes on and pose in silly positions on the desk.<br /><br />Certain treasured <b>ceramic mugs</b> that, after 30 yrs. aren't going anywhere (Coop Artist Materials/Atlanta Airbrush mug, American Artist Magazine mug, etc.)! They hold my brushes and sort my color pencils.<br /><br />Confession time folks! Am I the only one who, as a starving art student went out and bought the best, fanciest watercolor paper money could by ..... and now, (25 yrs. later) am still waiting for just the right project to use it for! It will still be sitting in the drawer 25 yrs. from now for a project worthy of it that won't be a flop! ;-)<br /><br />[sigh] I really do need to clean up my studio. ;-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10525815488895838293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-14806505513041105652010-03-26T09:28:07.668-04:002010-03-26T09:28:07.668-04:00Several years ago I worked a lot with metal, mainl...Several years ago I worked a lot with metal, mainly old arms and armour-related things. It is very hard to get good hammers for this, because they need often very special forms. One of my very best hammers was a big hammer with a bowl on the one side. It was originally from the tool set of an american tank from which my grandfather "lent" it shortly after WWII. Sadly I had during the last years nearly no more time for forging.Markus Bühlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06516990754952015532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-50125238007680535952010-03-26T02:33:56.739-04:002010-03-26T02:33:56.739-04:00This drawing table I build myself, before I was 18...This <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1036472&l=ff6963fc7c&id=1499451922" rel="nofollow">drawing table</a> I build myself, before I was 18.<br />It's at barstool's high, as that is the kind of chair I use when drawing/painting.Erik Bongershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02409523352634066030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-72801305986696439772010-03-26T00:04:59.221-04:002010-03-26T00:04:59.221-04:00All my grandmas old calligraphy pens and nibs. I t...All my grandmas old calligraphy pens and nibs. I think I have to live a few decades before my handwriting is as graceful as hers though. Thankfully most of the nibs are still in good condition, just a few have gotten so dinged up I just hang them on sketchbooks as charms.<br /><br />(You all make me wish I had a drawing desk to grow with!)Shannon Crisseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05357627280160224432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-14286706500039231732010-03-25T23:57:23.631-04:002010-03-25T23:57:23.631-04:00I actually have this awesome drawing table from my...I actually have this awesome drawing table from my parents; not sure whose exactly it was, but we've had it since I can remember. I guess one of my parents must've had it when THEY went to art school. So useful. <br /><br />Old for me in memory, but fairly new in use (well, proper drawing use, anyway).China Blue Rocketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17228175541697262462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-70759166337317845542010-03-25T23:50:51.793-04:002010-03-25T23:50:51.793-04:00I could never draw even as I admired those who cou...I could never draw even as I admired those who could, so never had a drawing table.<br /><br />My writing table since I was maybe seven years old is still there. It's more than just a table now.Anil Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02422187314611747278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-7515552899729730642010-03-25T23:36:36.130-04:002010-03-25T23:36:36.130-04:00I inherited my grandmother's oil paint set. I ...I inherited my grandmother's oil paint set. I still have a few tubes from that collection like a tube of Grumbacher's Finest Cobalt Violet oil paint (not the Pre-Tested). A little off topic but the carryover from this is the odor of the paint. That still takes me back.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05600856944731745751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-87941264938049863302010-03-25T23:21:29.322-04:002010-03-25T23:21:29.322-04:00I have the same table as yours in photo,(same base...I have the same table as yours in photo,(same base slightly different top) my first one. And my Dad's old wobbly wood table. Can't part with them either. I have various drafting tools from the 50's, including some sweeps(monkey tails and such) that my Dad made from scratch. Also, I have my Moms old art box that was originally a piece of luggage meant for cosmetics I think. When my Mom gave it to me it still had some charcoal, brushes and oil paints in it. I still have a tube or two of the oil paints. I have vowed for years to toss out that ugly "art Box" but it always wins... maybe Antiques Roadshow some day.David Teterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747334525619423349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-13618625209649258262010-03-25T23:16:48.493-04:002010-03-25T23:16:48.493-04:00Let me amend that last part:
ALL of these were fu...Let me amend that last part:<br /><br />ALL of these were fun to read, some touching, some funny but all insightful.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing.Tyler Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07171434906811033069noreply@blogger.com