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This summer I had a visit from visual journal artist Danny Gregory. We went about town doing what else? Sketching! One of our first stops was Ax Man. Everyone I know shops at this surprising surplus store. Maybe you're looking for yards and yards of chain, or resistors, or odd foam inserts from packing crates, or misprinted plastic key rings, or an iron lung (yes they have one though that's now a store feature), or even gas masks from Russia.
As with all things bought this inexpensively, you're on your own if you don't read the language the instructions are printed in. You never know when you're going to make a really great find, though. I got my large flat file here, in perfect working condition, with only a slight scuffing on the front. Store signage is half the entertainment. Large, boisterous, often collaged or containing a pun, the really funny signage gets retired to the back wall where you can still enjoy it. Since I was still having shoulder problems and wasn't sure how much of interest Danny would find in this store, I only took in my pen, my very mini-palette, waterbrush, and some loose sheets I could work on quickly. Later I pasted this sheet into my current journal. Go to Danny Gregory's website now. |
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