Brand New!! Ash Wednesday, Lent Too Fine Art Supplies

Today is Ash Wednesday which is the starting fourth dimension twenty-four hours of Lent - the menstruum of forty days until Maundy Thursday, the twenty-four hours before Good Friday.

It's traditional to fast on Ash Midweek too and thus to surrender a luxury or something y'all value every bit a penitence for Lent. However that's easier said than done.......

The Battle Between Carnival too Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder - 1559

Painting - crude on panel Height: 118 cm (46.46 in.), Width: 164.5 cm (64.76 in.)

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Austria)

The Fight betwixt Carnival too Lent depicts a mutual festival held inwards the Southern Netherlands. On the left side of the icon in that place is an inn, too inwards the correct side of the icon in that place is a church. The juxtaposition is meant to illustrate the ii sides of human nature: pleasance too religious chastity, too the contrast betwixt the two. Near the church building sit down well-behaved children. Near the inn are rambunctious drunkards. The fatty human inwards the middle of the painting, alongside the pie on his head, is a representation of “carnival.” The icon represents a mutual subject inwards 16th century Europe, the battle betwixt Carnival too Lent, too alongside its sense of humor too witticism, is a satirical critique on the conflicts of the Reformation. Wikipaintings

I'm non quest y'all to larn religious - even thus I am interested inwards what y'all value which y'all powerfulness pick out to surrender if y'all were thus minded

If y'all had to surrender i item from your fine art supplies.....

What item of fine art supplies would YOU honour the MOST hard to surrender for Lent?

In terms of:

art materials?
or essential tool?
or chip of kit y'all honour absolutely indispensable?
or luxury item of fine art materials?

I'd live lost without.....

I recollect for me it would live the pen I role for drawing every bit nil else plant every bit well. The Pilot G-Tec-C4 Gel Rollerball produces an ultra fine trouble of 0.2mm - inwards sepia ink!

Plus I convey them absolutely everywhere - pockets, handbags, backpacks, pencil cases - thus the chances of truly existence able to honour too take away them all from temptation is pretty remote!

...and whenever I honour them inwards a store I commonly convey to take away them all to my safekeeping later flashing my plastic!

Pilot G-Tec-C4 Gel Rollerball - sepia ink
All they had inwards the shop!

Over to y'all - what would y'all struggle to alive without for forty days.....?

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