Getting Some New Toys!

I was going to put a blog post up yesterday as I usually do post on Monday but, I knew that I had an Amazon package coming today so,  I wanted to wait till it arrived then I could share it with y'all.

  It might not be too exciting but I gotta tell you, a decent pencil sharpener, to an artist, is a Godsend. I go through pencil sharpeners like crazy and I find most of them to be not so good. They will sharpen okay the first few times but then they get gummed up, dull and are pretty much useless.

  Most of the time, I use a box cutter to sharpen my pencils. It actually works well but it is time consuming, messy and.......a lot of the time, at least for clumsy me, dangerous. I keep spare band-aids in the studio just in case.

  It is especially crucial to get a sharpener that works well on colored pencils. I use two types of colored pencils in my work, an oil based pencil and a wax based one. The wax based colored pencils have a very soft core which leaves them prone to breaking. They have to be very gently sharpened.

  So, I ordered this...............Gosh, I love Amazon Prime.

First.............The box has to pass inspection.................Thank you Sadie...Good dog.
 

  This is the Mitshubishi KH-20 pencil sharpener. It is a manuel sharpener, not electric, which I feel just eats up your pencils. It reminds me, albeit it's a little different, of the old fashioned Bulldog sharpeners from when I was a kid. It's a tad expensive at $23.00 and some change but I think It's well worth it.

 

  It has a stabilizer system that holds the pencil in place so it sharpens evenly without you having to hold the pencil yourself, no wobbling. And it has an orange adjuster button in the back that regulates how sharp or how rounded the point of the pencil becomes according to your preference.

After trying this sharpener, I feel I have gotten the sharpest point ever with any sharpener I have ever used. You can see how sharp it is here..............

So I would say that so far, this sharpener gets my vote. And not just for artists but for anyone who is sick and tired of their old dull sharpeners. Yay!

As for another new toy that is making it's way into my studio.....I DO have something coming that is very exciting! It is going to "raise the bar" as far as my art work goes. It is something that my wonderful hubby bought me for this coming Mothers Day. I'm not gonna say what it is just yet but I will show y'all soon. That's it for now. I am going to go spend the afternoon sharpening pencils.