I remember Painting By Numbers sets at Christmas.
There were always one or two perched on the arm of the sofa my prezzies were piled onto.
I wish I could recall some ultra-cool JR21 Thunderbirds painting sets but the subject matter I see when I think back is mostly wildlife like horses and birds in trees. I suppose they were trying to educate us as we painted.
The Paints were supplied in small plastic lidded pots that were neatly kept in place by holes in the back card box. There was naturally a brush too, together with a stack of unpainted paper sheet designs and the finished model pictures either in a colour leaflet or on the back. No idea who the manufacturers were anymore. Berwick?
All that was needed to paint by numbers really was a table, a glass of water and lots of childhood.
I don't get a happy feeling when I think of Painting by Numbers sets so imagine I wasn't keen on them. Like Board Games, I will have found them just too restrictive for my chaotic mind!
Even worse in my opinion were the Embroidery By Numbers sets my Mum got. Torture by a thousand stitches!
I do recall, however, loving a toy or painting set where the colour was revealed by wetting the paper with a brush dipped in water. Maybe I'm dreaming but it feels like something that I actually did as a kid! Can anyone help?
Did you like painting by numbers sets readers?
I do recall, however, loving a toy or painting set where the colour was revealed by wetting the paper with a brush dipped in water. Maybe I'm dreaming but it feels like something that I actually did as a kid!"
ReplyDeleteI didn't have paint by numbers, but I did have a Rupert Annual that had magic painting pages just as you recall...
https://au.pinterest.com/pin/364369426086890938/
Rupert Rupert the Bear, everyone sing his name! ha ha. U remember the song so well Lewis but his magic painting is new to me, although I'm glad I now have a name for the process; magic painting! Yay! How did they do it?
Deletetheres a Chad Valley Foil Art set out there somewhere, with pictures based on George Pals War of the World machines, and Man on the Moon colouring book, with Valigursky illustrations and a Project Sword Moon Crawler!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see that Moon Crawler!
DeleteI had a colouring book when I was very young with a drawing of a Gemini spacrcraft landing on land, with drogue chutes behind it!
ReplyDeletethere's that word again, drogue! colouring books were the best Kev especially space, cars and monsters!
Deletewoodsy, I left three things in the cupboard when I moved house in 1972, a wooden launch ramp me dad made me for my rockets, a green Thunderbirds colouring book and that Man on the Moon colouring book too. Only realised as the removal van drove away. Street, house, cupboard and books are now long gone!
DeleteHi - Lots of memories here on this thread - but I'm most interested by Wotan's mention of "a Chad Valley Foil Art set out there somewhere, with pictures based on George Pals War of the World machines" - I clearly remember a paint-by-numbers set that had a print from George Pal's film -
ReplyDeleteit was based on the image of the War machine and exploding buildings seen on the cover of the U.S. Pocket Book edition (possibly reversed - example here -
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/39527581@N07/5350413959/ ). I think it came in a pack of two prints (cannot remember the other print but it might have been something innocuous like a vase of flowers !) - it was smaller than an average paint-by-numbers (about 7x4 inches) and came with a hard white plastic frame. It may have come with coloured felt pens instead of paint (perhaps due to the size) but it definitely wasn't a Foil Art.I have no idea of the manufacturer but it would have been bought in the late 1960's/ early 1970's. Google has failed to find any obvious clue, but does anyone remember this or could Wotan find a link to the Foil Art set in case that leads
somewhere. Thanks and best wishes - John Swan
had a good google and could not find anything like the HG wells foil or painting book. That Martian TV Tie in image was also on the posters for the film John. Maybe it was part of a monsters colouring book?
DeleteJohn, thats about right, it was a small picture and its companion piece was something completely unrelated. Im tbinking foil art, because my sisters used quality street wrappers for a similar purpose, pressing the coloured paper behind a glass stencil. I can recall crinoline ladies with purple foil dresses! Felt pen or paint would have been most likely though.Glad someone else recalls it!
ReplyDeleteJohn, checked the link, yes that lloks right. The image im thinking of was flipped right to left and had two war machines in simple outline drawings coming towards the viewer.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bill - That's exactly my memory of it - I can't find an image anywhere but if not Chad Valley, I wonder if they were an "off-brand" cheap item from Hong Kong that made it's way to UK market stalls (but somehow I associate it with the Woolworths UK chain - where many an odd thing would appear in the late 60's!) Anyway - thanks for the confirmation - maybe we'll find an image someday ! All the best - John Swan
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