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[Alan]

Who remembers those enamelled pressed steel paint-boxes we used to get as Christmas presents as kids? All those little paint tablets of water-colours with exotically named colours such as carmine, emerald green, umber, burnt summat or other, primrose yellow, jonquill, cobalt blue, aquamarine and so on. No matter what we did, they got contaminated with other colours and all came out as slightly tinted shades of grey

[eddiedunc]

burnt sienna

[brunty]

i was in southport yesterday and there is a couple of shops on lord st which sell em i was gonna get one for g daughterbut changed my mind and bought books instead,we only got em at christmas alan and a compendium of games.

bruntyed, on Sep 15 2007, 09:19 PM, said:

i was in southport yesterday and there is a couple of shops on lord st which sell em i was gonna get one for g daughterbut changed my mind and bought books instead,we only got em at christmas alan and a compendium of games.

tell you what eddie you dont look well.

[splus]

Crimson Lake, Yellow Ochre. Mine were never contaminated. I used to clean each block of paint with a barely damp cloth after using them. I loves painting and drawing and really valued my paintboxes.

[brunty]

them brushes didnt last long did they splus.

[splus]

I used to experiment. Sometimes I used a brush, other times a small blob of cotton wool or a feather, even a matchstick. I was quite artistic and liked to try different textures and effects.

[Bonneylass]

I remember them, I've still got one and some art shops still sell them.

[jill]

I've got one, but it's in a plastic box

[Griffin]

Doesn't count. Has to be tin.

[splus]

I think you can get them from The Works in town. At least you could up until last year, when I bought one for a present.