art box

Most of the supplies for art club I keep in my basement and bring up as needed, but Olive has a special art box she brings along sometimes. The art box used to be her mother's. In it she collects all her important art materials -- pens, brushes, charcoal, pencils, colored pencils, scissors, sharpeners, a ruler, paint, fountain ink, clay, a sewing kit, a Japanese writing box, and a jack knife (for sharpening fat things). There is a seperate paper compartment. She keeps a postcard of Ukranian egg decoration and a paper umbrella in the box for artistic inspiration.

I was quite inspired by Olive's art box and felt the world would be a great deal better if we all kept something of the sort.