#eversong

about a month ago i bought two half pans of cyan and magenta paint from paul rubens, which is the brand of paint i use. i got a shipping notification about a week later, and a week after that my order got cancelled and i got a message from a customer service rep saying saying the shade of magenta i wanted didn’t exist and i needed to pick a different one

the color i wanted was listed in the booklet that came with my palette and i showed a picture of it to the person but they still said it didn’t exist. so i did some snooping and found that it Was a color, but it was only available in tubes and not pans.

so after a lot of back and forth i finally got my order finalized, and the representative said the order wouldn’t ship until after chinese new year, i said that was okay and wished them a happy new year

and then the whole corona virus thing happened, shay and i thought it would be fun to do an art collab and she drew this tarot card of her d&d character and her twin sister that i knew needed that extremely specific shade of cyan bc of aracelli’s spellplague backstory and that being the color associated with the spellplague

so after a couple days of deliberating if i’d wait for my aliexpress order or just get something else in the meantime and the chinese new year break being extended indefinitely, i decided i’d just get a replacement bc i don’t want to wait a month or more to start painting

so i looked for a comparable shade at every craft store in the area, and no one had a decent quality watercolor in the right shade

but jerry’s artarama, which is about 40 minutes away, had the winsor & newton cobalt teal light on their website so there was a chance they’d have it in-store so i went to go see

and they had exactly One tube left

so that’s why there is a lot more cyan in this picture than originally intended