Comments on: Reference Question of the Week – 1/15/12 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/01/21/reference-question-of-the-week-11512/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Sat, 18 May 2013 18:29:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: kapook http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/01/21/reference-question-of-the-week-11512/#comment-16883 kapook Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:52:30 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2964#comment-16883 Elsewhere in this edition of Hetq there is an article entitled “Just Who Is An Armenian?”

]]> By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/01/21/reference-question-of-the-week-11512/#comment-5690 Brian Herzog Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:19:03 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2964#comment-5690 @sharon: no, I had no idea – my personal distinction was just anything done with paints was painting, and anything done with pencils was drawing (I have no classification for chalk or other media). This is interesting, so thank you for pointing it out – it also kind of reminds me of how many people look down on watercolor painting, even though it’s actually very difficult and powerful, and not just what school kids use.

@TLWNN: I appreciate an artist who suffers for their work – I suffered at the hands of a few Nun-cum-art-critics myself.

]]> By: The Librarian With No Name http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/01/21/reference-question-of-the-week-11512/#comment-5683 The Librarian With No Name Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:49:26 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2964#comment-5683 It’s true. I was completely stigmatized for my “Paintings of Curly Moustache and Spectacles nos. 1-113.” Mixed media, colored pencil and social studies textbook, 1998.

]]> By: sharon http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/01/21/reference-question-of-the-week-11512/#comment-5657 sharon Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:47:19 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2964#comment-5657 It’s not just the water-soluble pencils. Colored pencil as a medium has had this stigma for a long time, and frequently was not accepted into “art” shows. I think if you look at “Painting light with colored pencil,” if it’s this book,

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GNJXAO/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

you’ll agree that it’s not just “drawing.”

]]> By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/01/21/reference-question-of-the-week-11512/#comment-5655 Brian Herzog Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:51:02 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2964#comment-5655 @anonymous: thanks – I had no idea. I’ll have to check those titles more closely when they’re returned, to see if they should be cataloged as painting or drawing.

]]> By: anonymous http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/01/21/reference-question-of-the-week-11512/#comment-5652 anonymous Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:54:15 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2964#comment-5652 It is a thing. They are special colored pencils that you dip in water, which softens the pencil lead into paint.

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