Category: Art Tools
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First tube of white gouache gone! New pan library and granulating mixes
Feels good to top up pallets and finally use up a tube. It kind of justifies the new ones coming. It’s a great way to be able to double the collection of watercolor options I have for the price of one tube. I don’t really use the white gouache much and originally bought it for…
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Fun mixing inks
Got my inner scientist on tonight. Looking at all the vials of ink laid out with the droppers it reminded me of my uni science labs. My order from Larry post arrived today with my samples of different de Atramentis archival document ink colours! Mixology When it comes to ink there are so many different…
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Travellers notebooks and calligraphy paper comparison
I just finished yet another Hanehmule travellers notebook and am averaging one every couple of months and have been using other notebooks for daily journaling. I would like to get back into bullet journaling but don’t want to waste my good paper so have been looking at cheaper alternatives and also experimenting with making my…
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Handmade watercolour sketchbook!
At the end of last year I kept the spare paper from my daughter’s exercise books and have been making little notebooks from the scrap paper just by collating the pages folding them together and using the back of the cover as a cover. Cutting to size then stapling it. It’s a great way to…
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New pastel pallette!
The night before my camping trip I was thinking about all the sunrises I wanted to paint and if you’ve been following my other posts I’ve been trying to recreate the perfect sunrise once witnessed (Pink sunrise – obsession with painting pink clouds and testing Baohong paper). I was refilling my art pocket pallets to…
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Calligraphy pen haul the search for a good fine liner
So I keep getting ads for Toms studio the last fine liner you need to buy. It’s over $100 AUD plus shipping and I’m not even sure if I need or want to use a fine tip pen for sketching. But I kept looking at it and had to make up my Temu order to…
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Review marker paper and experiments with cheap graphic marker’s
So every artist book starts out a list of supplies saying to buy the most expensive tools you can afford – paints and paper. I think this is good advice when starting to learn to paint in watercolour as you get great results especially if you want them to last a long time and the…
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Fude de mann sailor
My replacement fude de mann just arrived from. Amazon. So impressed it was cheaper than when I bought my first one and arrived in just a couple of days. A few days ago, I went to use my fude de mann sailor for the first time after lending it to my daughter, and found the…
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Mixing inks and amazing chemistry
Recently I’ve been testing out some new ink sample colours and also decided to replace the old bottle of ink with a light brown storia sailor ink which is great for sketching and is waterproof. After my initial tests with a glass pen I decided to try out the diamine polar glow ink in my…
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Masking fluid waves
I’ve only used the masking fluid once or twice before using a brush but found it tedious to use, a lot of clean up and it ruined my brushes (I already knew to use the old ones). So when I saw the duck bill pen on temu decided to try again and also got a…
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