Hello everyone,
For Christmas last year I treated myself to an unusual subscription: a quarterly box of pencils. I love Blackwing pencils and I find their themes usually resonate with me. I hesitated with the subscription because their quarterly boxes come from the USA, and the postage is steep. But in the end I thought I would try it for a year and see if it’s worth it…
The first one wasn’t a surprise because it was the one I subscribed with. I already knew what was going to come in the post.
However, when the second one arrived last week, I had no idea what I would find in the box. And as it happens, it was something meaningful to me and I was both surprised and delighted with what I discovered.
When I was little, there was no daytime television, apart from Wednesday afternoons when kids were off school. Because my brothers and sister were much older than me, I was always playing on my own until I started school and made friends. And although there were no programmes on the tv, there was this colourful thing I used to call “the target”, because to me that’s what it looked like. I used to be mesmerised by all the colours. I would sit in front of the screen for hours trying to draw it with my coloured pencils. The target (and my rabbits) were my companions for years…
Now I have pencils with the target on them, which makes me very happy.
Here is the video I made of the unboxing and showing what’s in the box:
Subscribing to that box was actually a very good idea and I’m really glad I did. I can’t wait to see what the Blackwing people will come up with next!
Happy drawing!
Sandrine
Sandrine Maugy 