Remember painting with 'Dip Dots'?

[John F.]

Anybody remember using 'Dip Dots' to paint with? These were sort of a liquid
water color paint that came in a tray with round openings, one for each color.
Each opening had a clear plastic cover that you pressed in with your brush to
get to the paint. I went through many of these in the early 70's, havent seen
them since.
While on the subject of kid's paints, are regular water colors still made? The
ones where you had to soak your brush in water, and rub it into the dry paint.
I also remember paint books with the paint already in the pictures, you would
just paint with a wet brush and the color would appear.

John F.
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[Dixon Hayes]

John F. wrote:

>Anybody remember using 'Dip Dots' to paint with? These were sort of a liquid
>water color paint that came in a tray with round openings, one for each
>color.

I remember these. They were not only popular with my kindergarten and early
grade school teachers, but I even remember seeing the kids use them on Romper
Room. Perhaps it's because they weren't as messy as other kids' paint sets...

Dixon

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[Paul and Jill]

I loooooved my Dip'n Dots when I was little.

And they do still make regular watercolor paints, although to find the
non-washable kind is becoming increasingly difficult, unless you hit an
art supply store. The washables are not nearly as bright in color.

Jill :-)

In article <19991129093740...@ng-cl1.aol.com>,
jsf...@aol.comnospam (John F.) wrote:

>Anybody remember using 'Dip Dots' to paint with? These were sort of a liquid
>water color paint that came in a tray with round openings, one for each color.

[Oil Impressionist]

Believe it or not, I only had the plain old watercolors as a kid -
never even heard of the Dip n Dots.

At any rate, Jill's right on with all her info about watercolors. But
I wanted to tell you all, I saw a great selection of watercolors
(Crayola and even "professional" Prang) at the GROCERY store the other
day. Albertsons, to be exact. :-)

DLN Oil Impressionist
born 9-61

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[John F.]

>At any rate, Jill's right on with all her info about watercolors. But
>I wanted to tell you all, I saw a great selection of watercolors
>(Crayola and even "professional" Prang) at the GROCERY store the other
>day. Albertsons, to be exact. :-)

Good to see that there's still some low-tech things for kids today.

[Michael E. Kotler]

In article <19991129093740...@ng-cl1.aol.com>,
jsf...@aol.comnospam says...

> Anybody remember using 'Dip Dots' to paint with?

All I remember was a TV commercial for Dip Dots around 1971. It began by
showing a brush painting in some lines similar to a paint-by-numbers
sheet, then quickly morphed to show the whole picture painted in, then a
song was sung by some kids.

This is not to be confused with Dippin' Dots, the so-called "ice cream of
the future" that you find for sale today in kiosks at many amusement
parks and shopping malls.

Michael Kotler
mek...@aol.com