EGYPTAIN CIGARETTE TIN WATERCOLOR SET

I am always on the lookout for a vintage watercolor set or an old watercolor tin. I recently ran across this old tin Egyptian Cigarette box in an antique store. While not a watercolor tin, I like the way it looked with it's old faded colors and nice patina. I decided to buy it and turn it into my personal watercolor set. I added  the Windsor-Newton / Cotman watercolors, some of my personal ivory handles for brush ferrules and a couple of handmade dip pens for scroll work on the fraktur that I paint. I hope that you enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoyed putting it together and painting with it. Let me know what you think about it.

  

Closed M. Melachrino & Co. cigarette tin

Another view of the tin

Inside of the tin showing it's contents.

Ivory handles for the brush ferrules, 
handmade dip pens, 
a water siphon and a tin of china white.

OLD POUCH FRIDAY WILL BE MOVING TO MY NEW BLOG SITE!!!

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In the near future, Old pouch Friday will be moving from this blog to my new pouch blog. I have developed this new and separate blog just to post my pouches on it. I will continue to retain the American frontier art blog for my paintings and other visual artwork.

Soldier and Fort Fraktur

Soldier and Fort Fraktur

Ink, Watercolor and Pencil

on an antiqued book cover.

Approx. 9" x12".

SOLD

Most Regal of Beasts

MOST REGAL OF BEASTS

Ink and Watercolor Fraktur painting

on an antiqued book cover.

SOLD!

An Artist Perspective on his work.

From time to time, I've featured artists who have impressed me with their work. Fritz Scholder(1937-2005) is one of the most significant artist of our time. When he began painting Native Americans, he challenged tribal stereotypes and offered a post-modern interpretation of the American Indian experience. Scholder, himself part-Native, rejected the label of “Indian artist,” instead describing himself as “a non-Indian Indian.” If your interested in his thoughts on the subject, just click on the video link provided below.

The video link.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnoU8IG5Nps

Fritz Scholder: On life.

"This is a record of your time. This is your movie. Live out your dreams and fantasies. Sit for hours at sidewalk cafes and drink with your heroes. Look up and down. Believe in the unknown, for it is there. Live in many places. Live with flowers and music and books and painting and sculpture. Learn to write well. Learn to listen and talk well. Know your country, know the world, know your history, know yourself. Take care of yourself physically and mentally. You owe it to yourself. Be good to those around you. And do all of these things with passion, Give all you can. Remember, life is short is and death is long".