Newbie
This toon goes out to Squiddie, Kinan.
I remember so fondly of first year art students coming to the store and not being able to pronounce sanguine, crow quill or chamois.
This toon goes out to Squiddie, Kinan.
I remember so fondly of first year art students coming to the store and not being able to pronounce sanguine, crow quill or chamois.
“I’ve got a little list.
They’ve all of them, been missed.”
(With apollogies to G&S!)
Isn’t it “India ink?” At least that’s the way I’ve always taken it, in the, well, almost fifty years since I last used any…don’t remember what it said on the bottle…
India Ink, it is, indeed! I remember loading it into my rapidographs (and I also remember paying the price of failing to clean out the nibs until the next time I need it weeks later!)
In a somewhat rambling commentary—I remember the song, “Love Potion Number Nine,” in its “original” version, by the Clovers, I think, I think they said “India ink.” But in the somewhat better-known version by the Searchers, they said “Indian ink.” But I also got to wondering what the Searchers, a British Liverpudlian group who were competitors of the Beatles, would call it, or even if they would know what it was…
It’s both India ink and Indian ink.
It was invented in China.
People who say “Indian ink” probably also say “Canadian geese.”
Leo… Did you write them down? check ’em off to avoid the frown.
Robert… As Mary says, it’s both…. but I’ve mostly seen it India Ink… which is why “newbie” says it.
Rich… I am so glad the Microns came along. Rapidiographs frustrate anyone using them… except for Bill Watterson who added a spot of dish detergent to his ink to keep it flowing in the tube, so to speak.
Robert… Robert… I will have to go and have a listen to the song (it’s in my archive… in Halloween music…)…
Mary… wiki says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_ink
Yat…. I always refer to Canada as “Canadia… ” thus making Canadian geese correct.
You can tell he’s a first year student based on his horny leering at Randie. Hey, I went through the same phase.
By the way, the newbie is Fan of the show, Kinan!
Dada… wha? wha? You did what? and no no… not listening… la la la…
Yet he pronouced Conté correctly. How curious …
I remember those days. Being an art student isn’t cheap.
Crow … I don’t think there is any other way of saying it… con-tee maybe.
Jack… I cannot imagine what art supplies would cost a beginner art student today… prices of art supplies NEVER go DOWN… always up.
Ah, the inexperienced eye and tongue of the inexperienced student. I have many not so fond memories of screwing up all sorts of phrases and names for things in any number of courses I signed up in. Heck, take a basic class in medical sciences and prepare to sound like a goof trying to puzzle out some organ names!
….. so it isn’t Canadian geese? Ahhhh, dangit. Well, live and learn, isn’t that the idea?
One of the art supply stores near my alma mater used to get the supply lists from the art professors and put together kits that students could request depending on their class. I remember thinking that was the neatest thing.