My Watercolor Pencils

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My mother gave my daughter a box of watercolor pencils when she was around 10 years old i.e: about 10 years ago. The other day, I took them out of their box to draw and paint.
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Those pencils carry the label of "aquarellable". Their color will dissolve in water. Unfortunately, it did not. I tried several types of papers, with the 12 pencils, butt felt like I was using with my wooden crayons. And they did not react to water at all. How frustrating. 

Since I'm a lucky genXer with a job, I went to my favorite art store and bought a black and a white aquarellable pencils. Those ones were real and new watercolor ones! Unlike the old, I discovered that my daughter's 10 year-old birthday gift was done filling it's purpose. Not in a literal way because I can still use them to only. color. and. draw. Only. 

I expected to use them in my new found passion : watercolor arts. 

Morale of The Story: USE BEFORE IT DRIES! 

With time, our art material gets rotten or dry.  Pigments lose their qualities, some substrates too, like paper turns yellow with time and color dims under years of old sunny shop window.



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