Reeves
student watercolour paintbox, circa 1910. It contains whole watercolour
cakes (back three rows), tube paint in lead containers (second
row from front) and a few more recent tubes at the very front. The
paper roll contains branch charcoal, which does not work well with
watercolours. This set originally belonged to Delancey Torry when
she attended Mount Allison Ladies' College, where she majored in fine
art. It is now in the posession of Rod Mackay and is still in use.
I did not have any revelations at Mount Allison University in
Sackville, New Brunswick. The intitial year, 1954-1955, was an easy one since I neither had difficulty
with neither English nor History and had already grasped the elements of
drawing and painting after studying with Thomas Acheson for five
years in grade school in St. Stephen. The curriculum in both
places was essentially the same!
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