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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Out of Stock

Hoo boy, am I depressed. For the last few days I have literally been searching the entire world (online) and Madison (in person), and planned to search Milwaukee this weekend, for Sennelier Iridescent (Interference) oil pastels. Nothing, except for one online seller through Amazon. It was the only place I found that had them in stock, so I decided to get 3 of each of the 6 colors, you know, to stock up. I was happy to have located them because I feared they were not being made anymore. I was able to get just the regular "iridescent" (metallic) pastel set through Sennelier, but it did not include the interference colors. It did, however, include a catalog with a complete list of all their colors, interference nowhere to be found.

So I placed the order through Amazon last night, but they refunded it just a few minutes ago, due to them being out of stock. They didn't realize they still had the inventory listed online.

I want to cry.

I guess it's time to figure out how to make my own pastels. I have plenty of raw interference pigment--or powder, thanks to Daniel Smith or Pearl Ex or even the very-difficult-to-order-from Sepp Leaf (because they have a thing for Fax Machines and do not do the online thing...polar opposite of me). Interference Powder is abundant. Interference Paint is abundant too. But the only ones who made Interference pastels, Sennelier, has discontinued them. They had a corner on the market...or was the market so insignificant? Did I put them out of business when I stopped buying them (when I went through a hiatus of using pastels)? Doubtful. It's just depressing. I found an online recipe for pastel-making at About.com, but it's for soft pastels, not oil. I could give it a try. No one that I've heard of has ever made Interference soft pastels, including Sennelier.

I am so bummed about this.

Sennelier, why did you do this?

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Blogger Ann said...

The folks at the FineArtStore were kind enough to respond to me when I asked them about the pastels. They said Sennelier had discontinued a lot of their slow-sellers. (Good to know it wasn't for health/safety reasons! But since I was such a prolific user of interference colors, I had already checked to make sure they were harmless, and they are, as long as you don't directly breathe the dust from powdered pigments, which obviously isn't an issue with OIL pastels).

Depressing because it means I can't get this item anymore; in a way reassuring because that means that not everyone is rushing to immitate my techniques...but how do I make my last remaining nubs last?

10:53 AM  
Blogger Stan said...

"You B$(^$%, You killed Kenny!"

7:47 PM  

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