Vintage Disney

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Vintage Disney. Makes no sense when looking at this piece of art, does it? Actually it makes perfect sense. Let me show you.















Back when we lived down south I bought this vintage Disney paint set online somewhere. Probably eBay. I have had the set for seven or eight years and have been afraid to actually paint with it. 
















This is a huge set and as you can see - it had never been used. Pristine paints. I don't know who was in charge of filling these pans, or deciding which color went in what square. Hahahaha! It would help immensely if all the yellows were together, and all the blues together, but no, this 74 piece set of colors is all jumbled up. But completely unused. I finally got brave and decided to try these colors out. I was curious if they would still be pretty after all these years. I did some research and found out this tin was available back in the early 50s. That's awhile ago. 



I began my work with a sheet of mixed media paper from Leda Art Supply. After taping the edges with painters tape I just started picking colors randomly and painting them across my paper. No rhyme or reason, just playing with the colors. Many only gave me faint, pastel color but others were brighter and prettier. None of them gave me the bright, bold, beautiful color I like but I thought this was something I could work with. For painting I used the #8 round Black Tulip brush from ZenART Supplies. 








Here is my piece once dry. I was really happy with the yellow and that mint color. I never really found a pink I was happy with. 

















I used an ultra fine Sharpie to draw my flowers and leaves, then painted most of them. I decided to leave those three large flowers open and unpainted. And last I painted the background. Everything in this piece of art was painted with the vintage Disney set of watercolors. But it wasn't complete yet. 














All detail work was done with the same Sharpie. Tangles include printemps and antidots. I used a white Sharpie paint pen for highlights. I was really pleased with the colors in this piece. For an almost 70 year old paint set I thought the colors worked great. 














And here it is once the painter's tape was removed. I really like the large flowers I left open - look at the underlayer of color shining through! And the large multi-petaled flower in the lower left. So lovely. I wish I could hook you up with one of these paint sets. Maybe you can find one on eBay, but you can not have mine. Hahahaha! I am going to be using it again real soon!













Leda's Mixed Media paper can be purchased here. 

ZenART Supplies' Black Tulip brushes can be purchased here. 

Comments

  1. MariamGApril 19, 2021 at 9:54 PM

    This is priceless! And truly - those colors are all Disney, are they not?! Love your art!!

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  2. Evy BrowningApril 20, 2021 at 6:03 AM

    I wondered if you could tip all the little squares out & rearrange them - probably would have been better before any were used but you've not used many so it might still work once they're dry. Great that you can actually use the watercolours - I shall keep my eyes open now that charity shops are back being open.

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    1. AliceApril 20, 2021 at 9:24 AM

      I did try that before I started painting and those little blocks of color are glued in there tight. they aren't going anywhere

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  3. Sandra StraitApril 20, 2021 at 11:40 AM

    You got some gorgeous results, Alice! What I usually do for pan paints like this, is cut a square of paper to the same or slightly smaller size, make a grid with a square for each of the paints and color one square for each of the colors, in the same order as in the pan. Then you have a chart of what the colors look like on paper.

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    1. AliceApril 20, 2021 at 12:01 PM

      I probably will do that. some of the pans are hard to tell what their color is just by looking at them. a chart will make it much easier

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