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.
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Mikaella Theofanopoulou
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.
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.
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)
Daler Rowney Acrylic Paint Marker, Black
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)
Frisk Newsprint Paper Pad, 43gsm, 100 Sheets
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)
ScrawlrBox ScrawlrBlanks Pencil
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 crayons are surprisingly high quality, they don't crumble and are packed well. Newsprint paper is also an interesting choice of surface. I bought these on sale for 5 pounds, but I'm not sure I would be too stoked to get this had I paid the full price.
Fun to try out, but don't think I would get more of these.
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Sarah Berger
Brilliant kit
Terrific collection of things to play and experiment with. Great fun and good value
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Eve
Boxes of Joy
I really enjoy these boxes of joy. For me, I get to try new mediums, experiment with different papers and try new ways of making art. I am late to thinking that I am any good at art and so, to be able to try things without it costing a fortune is so good.
