Today is an exciting day for me. This shows how boring my life it. :-) Yesterday at 4 pm Fedex came to my door with a delivery of Dixon Markette Markers. 36 beautiful black markers. Love them. Why am i excited about them? Well, they are the preferred markers of caricature artists all over this great land. That's it? No, they are hard to find. In fact, there is only one place in the USA you can buy them. An art store in florida. I have called them a few times. They didn't have them and were not expecting to get them for a while. So, i found a place in Canada that had them. Yes i ordered them from another country. Today i will spend time getting to know the marker. Learning to use it, love it and hopefully become an expert. I did work a little last night with it. Did a few caricatures, that i gave away, but today is the day i will get close to it. Here is a picture from last night. The color is very black, they are non toxic and i believe they last and last and last. I hope. Anyhow, this is a silly post, but i felt inspired to do it.
Enjoy
6 comments:
So where did you buy them? I have to have some of those too, but can't find them anywhere!!
hey rick, i'd like to know where you purchased the markers from. I've purchased the markettes from canada before as well, but they were badly manufactured and came out kinda dry. i ordered from a second canadian company and the same results: really dry, non-juicy ink flow. I'm use to the old school Design Art Markers that were always juicy and super smooth.
I got ahold of a supervisor at kamans' art shoppes (a national caricature outsourcing company for a lot of theme parks) and he confirmed that dixon is having issues with manufacturing the dixon markette. This of course was about a year ago and now i'm wondering if they've stepped up their game and fixed the manufacturing issue. can you name the company that sold you the markers and confirm they're nice and juicy? thanks for your time.
Found some Markette markers at DeSerres (http://www.deserres.ca/ formerly Loomis Art Store) 905.829.9181 Toll Free 1.800.567.5364 in 2501 Hyde Park Gate, Oakville, Ontario, L6H 6G6
Not sure if they ship to the USA, but might be worth a try. Since it's my first time trying these markers out, I can't make a call if their quality issues remain. Though the first one I've tried so far seems to be getting dry after a dozen of practice pages.
I had it from a caricature Artist (Lar De Souza) that I know, that you should keep a couple to use on hand at a time so that when it starts to seem to dry out, you let it "rest" and use another one.
Apparently that strategy makes them last quite a long time. :)
Just found this online:
http://www.artsupplywarehouse.com/prodDetail.php?id=46219
When you get 'em, push the caps down onto the pens HARD, and then turn 'em so the ink gravitates toward the tip when not in use. Always have several on-hand when working professionally. Make a mark of some sort on the old, dry ones, and use those for the lighter lines you're making, usually the interior features of a face. If you find one which is too juicy to control, simply run it quickly across some scrap paper for a few seconds, and repeat as necessary.
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