Rachel Fong Art – my journey into watercolour and life
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Painting the sunrise
One of the things I love to do when camping is to wake up before dawn and paint the sunrise. We often camp near the beach so this is also a chance to practise painting waves which I’ve yet to fully master. I love seeing the changes in colour and find that it’s a new…
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Jesus is risen! Happy easter with my first themed series of paintings
The theme was messy church and the brief was to paint a series of 3 paintings the cross, the resurrection, a messy church. It was a quick fun challenge (two done in an evening and the final finished the next day) I was asked to do an option for our church sermon series for Easter.…
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Pocket porcelain palette anko knock off of the etcher
Couldn’t walk past this discovery in Target. Today I was trolling the art supplies and the portable paint brush stand caught my eye. When I looked closer I noticed the word porcelain then the picture looked just like the etcher pocket porcelain palette. For $12. Porcelain you can’t go wrong decided to buy it just…
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Happy new year – trying out some textured art
We saw some lovely textured art paintings that were quite expensive the and thought I could do that. So have been looking at buying some modelling paste to wanting to try out textured art and at $30 for 250ml decided to wait to boxing day sales. Reading up about this the lower quality paste can…
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Getting back into a painting habit
When I first got into painting I was so excited to use my new paints and kits I used to paint every day. I quit Facebook for a year and it was easy to find time after dinner I would paint my family of the food. But life got busy, travel, then the sales to…
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New inks fresh from Japan
Here’s the inks in the order purchased. I managed to do the whole 8 floors of Itoya (Ginza, Tokyo, Japan) stationary, craft and art supplies in one hour. The inks I already know are mostly the same price from store to store but stock is usually limited or different. So I went with the rule…
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Flip through end of 2024
Two more notebooks completed at the end of 2024. Travellers notebook 003 passport size – uses MD paper Home life Home made notebook with watercolour paper and marker paper Some of my favourites
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2024 review of travellers notebooks and styles
Looking back at my notebooks in 2024 here’s a round up if the different styles and types of notebooks I’ve enjoyed the most and for the different styles and modes of travelling. The more time I have and using a reference I’m able to achieve a more realistic and detailed painting. But I’ve been trying…
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Flip through of my Hahnemühle watercolour book over the course of 2024
I started this in 2024 when we went on my birthday cruise with my parents. I thought I would treat myself even though these are super expensive and usually just use it for landscapes or portraits when I’m camping and have more time to paint. We were sick for 3 months of winter then went…
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Invisible ink experiments!
Saw some invisible ink on Temu and thought it was glow in the dark ink. But when it arrived it didn’t glow in the dark but turns out is only visible under UV light. I thought would be cool to play with the idea of hidden messages in particular hiding the word of God, which…
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