Category: Art Tools
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Masking tape Test 2 for larger paintings
I’ve previously done a comparison of different masking tape which you can read more on Comparing masking tape vs kraft tape on different surfaces. This was great at the time I was figuring out the best way to set up my plein air kits and only had access to sheets of paper which required taping.…
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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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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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Japan stationary haul!
Last year we did a trip to Japan Osaka and I managed to get most of the stationary I wanted to buy – mostly the travellers notebooks and sheening ink. I was surprised that most of the stores were hard to find and whilst there was a lot of pens and highlighters not all stores…
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Testing new Chinese brushes and temu watercolour travel brushes
My mum just came back from Malaysia and gave me some new Chinese brushes she bought from her friend who does Chinese brush painting. Around the same time my watercolour travel brushes from Temu arrived so naturally had to test them all out. I was quite impressed with the Temu travel brushes they have a…
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Line and wash painting book reviews
It’s been a while since I’ve done a book review. I’ve just got a haul of watercolour and ink painting books from the library as I’ve been delving into the world of calligraphy and sketch and wash. Modern Watercolour by Kristin Van Leuven This is an old goody that have popped up. Flipping through this…
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Watercolour sketch books comparison Kmart vs talens
Found some cheap watercolour and sketch books in Kmart yesterday for only $4 each. The anko brand look exactly the same as the Talens art creation sketch book that I bought in Japan for only $5.54 (554 yen) but most books like this usually retail for $10-20 AUD in Australia. It was a good opportunity…
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Ink bottle holders
I was tired of my ink bottles knocking over and spilling ink everywhere so I made up some beautiful bottle holders with my daughter’s air drying clay. There are three different sizes for my different sized bottles. Hoping it will keep its shape and hold up after it’s dried as the air dry clay tends…
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A little bit of shimmer makes everything magic
I had fun playing with some mica powder today. I had picked up some from temu last year and I’ve been meaning to experiment with adding it to ink to see if I could make my own shimmer ink. On my last trip to Japan I had picked up a few shimmer inks so I…
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