Ash Wednesday, Lent As Well As Fine Art Supplies

Today is Ash Wednesday which is the get-go 24-hour interval of Lent - the current of xl days until Maundy Thursday, the 24-hour interval before Good Friday.

It's traditional to fast on Ash Midweek as well as and hence to surrender a luxury or something yous value equally a penitence for Lent.  However that's easier said than done.......

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

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

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Austria)

The Fight betwixt Carnival as well as Lent depicts a mutual festival held inward the Southern Netherlands. On the left side of the paradigm at that topographic point is an inn, as well as inward the correct side of the paradigm at that topographic point is a church. The juxtaposition is meant to illustrate the 2 sides of human nature: pleasance as well as religious chastity, as well as the contrast betwixt the two. Near the church building sit down well-behaved children. Near the inn are rambunctious drunkards. The fatty human being inward the middle of the painting, amongst the pie on his head, is a representation of “carnival.” The paradigm represents a mutual topic inward 16th century Europe, the battle betwixt Carnival as well as Lent, as well as amongst its humour as well as witticism, is a satirical critique on the conflicts of the Reformation. Wikipaintings

I'm non bespeak yous to give-up the ghost religious - notwithstanding I am interested inward what yous value which yous mightiness select to surrender if yous were hence minded

If yous had to surrender 1 item from your fine art supplies.....

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

In terms of:

• art materials?
• or essential tool?
• or scrap of kit yous uncovering absolutely indispensable?
• or luxury item of fine art materials?

I'd live lost without.....

I scream upwards for me it would live the pen I piece of job for drawing equally nada else plant equally well. The Pilot G-Tec-C4 Gel Rollerball produces an ultra fine business of 0.2mm - inward sepia ink!

Plus I bring them absolutely everywhere - pockets, handbags, backpacks, pencil cases - hence the chances of genuinely beingness able to uncovering as well as take them all from temptation is pretty remote!

...and whenever I uncovering them inward a store I normally bring to take them all to my safekeeping afterward flashing my plastic!

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

Over to yous - what would yous struggle to alive without for xl days.....?

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