What’s in a line? This months box gave you the chance to find out! Explore an ever changing line with a continuous flow, as inspired by our featured artist Mikaella Theofanopoulou.
In this box you will find a pack of 4 unique Boya Crayons, a Daler Rowney Acrylic Paint Marker in Black- perfect for those thick lines!- A ScrawlrBox ScrawlrBlanks Pencil in 2B and the surface for this month was a bumper pad of 100 sheets of Frisk Newsprint Paper.
Mikaella is an Athens (Greece) based independent artist & designer, born in Tokyo (Japan). After receiving her Master in Applied Design in Architecture from Oxford School of Architecture, she engaged with interior design, drawing inspiration from the traditional Japanese aesthetics of the wabi-sabi philosophy. Her obsessive admiration for the clean lines & organic forms of interiors of unobtrusive beauty, stimulated her to shift her perspective towards the creation of artworks that reveal this kind of authenticity.
Drawing her inspiration from minimalism to expressionism, she communicates her abstract ideas with a refined single line visual language, perceived universally but subject to multiple interpretations. Her art is all about exploring genuineness in existing imperfection through the simplicity of a single line, rejecting everything superfluous. Her works invite you to discover that the most intricate sentiment can emerge even from a smooth, subtle line.
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No new line is ever the same. This months box is to challenge yourself to work with a continuous flow as inspired by our featured artist. Add your own twist and turns and fill between the lines. Over lap and connect your marks to form new shapes, try shifting your perspective to transform what seem like simple lines into something more spectacular.
Our Top 3 Scrawlrs:
- @artbyeszterkatona
- @gewalton_art
- @deathbearghost
Boya is a brand from Croatia, a creative vision of Zagreb based designer Maja Mesić. A wax crayon but not as you now them! Boya is a soft wax pastel for drawing, colouring and painting. Boya crayons are designed differently, their shape is formed of edges, tips and round sides which allows you to draw with lines as well as colour surfaces or shade– main elements of every drawing and painting. Stain proof. Produced and made in Croatia. (RRP £12.99)
This marker contains a soft body, water based, fast drying and juicy fluid acrylic paint that can be used straight from the pen – simply shake and pump the nib to activate. Featuring a 2-3mm medium point spongy nib. They can be used on a variety of surfaces including canvas as well as wood, card, glass and ceramics. Made in the UK. (RRP £1.99)
Recycled lightweight paper ideal for drawing, sketching and doodling. The lightweight, soft and smooth nature of this paper makes it ideal for all sorts of dry mediums such as crayons pencils charcoal and pastels… take your pick! It’s off-white colour gives a lovely mid tone to start your sketches from. Made in Britain. (RRP £3.99)
A trusty pencil, this one is our own kind! The ScrawlrBlanks 2B pencil is a trusty graphite pencil you can sketch, plan and draw out all of your ideas until you are happy and ready to go in with your more permanent mediums in this box. Complete with an eraser on the end too. (RRP £1.79)
The supplies are actually really nice and the art is experimental. But the paper is absolutely not suited for the supplies. It tears if you use the paint pen, if you erase too much it starts to get ripped and the crayons tear the paper. The supplies are great, but wouldn't suggest buying if you don't do experimental art or aren't interested in crayons as the paper doesn't make up for a supply you might not like. Got this on sale so I don't feel too let down, but I can see how it would be very disappointing for people who pay full price.
The paper was of poor quality.
The crayons colours different to advert
The acrylic pen was good quality and I will use it
The pencil did not state the lead quality
The chewy bar was very nice
Absolutely loved this box - looks so unassuming and is so satisfying - I've got this box twice now!
Had not used these crayons before,l like them very much,all the quality of the items in the box very good, like the paper,like everything about this box.have like all the boxes i have received none have been disappointing
While I'm pretty much incapable of doing anything too artsy with these materials, with the quantity of paper you get, and the seemingly low stakes that come from using these weird crayons on it, this box ends up being pretty chill.
For me, it's became a box about doodling for doodling's sake, and sometimes that's all I want or need.
The paper is a bit surprising in the sense that it feels ultra thin and weak, but it works astonishingly good with the paint marker you get... Yes it buckles a bit, and if you're too rough you'll rip or overwork it, but like, it works better than you'd think! You also get a lot of sheets, as I mentioned before, so it's not so sad if you do end up ruining one or two.
I've also used other paint markers on the paper and they work just as well on it as the included one. If anything the riskier thing to use on the paper is the pencil, so don't be too heavy handed with it.
The crayons look super fancy in their little carry case, and the selection of colors is nice (though I would've certainly loved to get a few more of them!). In terms of actually using them... I found it somewhat difficult to be precise with my coloring. Eventually I simply stopped trying to be clean with them.
