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Ray Frenden
Ray Frenden is a boy, has been a member since July 19, 2007, has scored 385 submissions, giving an average score of 2.22.
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  Oct 03 '09 by Ray Frenden        7 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on Kaboodle   
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I just bought a bunch of Kolinsky Sables from Rosemary & Co. A friend of mine, Kiel West, introduced me to Rosemary's brushes. She's a woman in England who hand-makes all her brushes at a fraction of the cost of other manufacturers. Manufacturers who seem to have an inverse quality to price ratio of late - I'm looking at you, Windsor & Newton.

This will be my first order. I can't recommend them from personal experience yet. She comes so highly recommended, and with prices so affordable, it's hard not to get excited. Just look at how much brush I got for so little dough:


1 x Series 22. Pure Kolinsky Designer. Size: 1 = $6.41
3 x Series 22. Pure Kolinsky Designer. Size: 2 = $20.91
3 x Series 22. Pure Kolinsky Designer. Size: 3 = $25.28
1 x Series 22. Pure Kolinsky Designer. Size: 4 = $9.80

1 x Series 33. Pure Kolinsky Sable. Size: 1 = $4.58
3 x Series 33. Pure Kolinsky Sable. Size: 2 = $14.14
3 x Series 33. Pure Kolinsky Sable. Size: 3 = $15.87
1 x Series 33. Pure Kolinsky Sable. Size: 4 = $5.82

1 x Bamboo Brush Roll. = $7.36

Sub-Total: $110.17
Shipping to the USA: $8.48
Total: $118.65


$118 for 16 Kolinsky brushes with shipping. Wowee. Unless these are the single most atypically useless Kolinsky Sable brushes ever made, that's a miniscule amount of money.

Ray Frenden
   Ray Frenden on Oct 03 '09 at 4:59pm
I can't get over it. $118! That's, like, two Windsor & Newton brushes! ;p
Steve The Great
Steve The Great on Oct 03 '09 at 5:00pm
ooooh. I know nothing about traditional art supplies and their costs. I know I can't afford film.
Ray Frenden
   Ray Frenden on Oct 03 '09 at 5:03pm
Well, I have $2000 into a Cintiq and ~$6000 into my MacPro. $8000 worth of computer equipment can't reproduce the line quality of a $7 brush! ARGH.
Steve The Great
Steve The Great on Oct 03 '09 at 5:10pm
Argh!
spacesick 2
spacesick 2 on Oct 03 '09 at 5:10pm
ray have things gotten so bad that you've resorted to working part time as a spammer to help make ends meet?

I never thought I'd see the day!
Ray Frenden
   Ray Frenden on Oct 03 '09 at 5:15pm
Heh.
Outlaw01
Outlaw01 on Oct 03 '09 at 5:32pm
I can't afford art supplies :(
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Ray Frenden is a self-taught illustrator with a penchant for monsters and the macabre.

Drawing from a childhood weaned on horror comics, detective novels, trashy films, and retro sci-fi, his brush and ink work hearkens to an older era.

That juxtaposition of old sensibilities for crafting line and a footing in current color and design trends make Ray’s work unique.