Category: People
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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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Pastels series from the vault
More pictures from the vault – year 9 or 10 art classes this time all in oil pastel. This is a great medium when learning to draw and to transition from pencil to paint because you Most of these I’m just drawing what I see and testing out the medium. Testing out the metallic oil…
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From the vault – art classes
I recently had to clear out my childhood home and found all my old school books and visual art diaries and had given up art in my senior years to take on more science classes. Even in uni I had dabbled with it but with life, family, kids I had completely forgotten this part of…
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sketchbook – Camping and weekends
Another sketchbook done. This time I was experimenting with sketching with different water soluble inks and doing washes with them. Here is a flip through gif Here are a few of my favourites
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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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Practising portraits
A lot of art is just practise. I’ve been practising portraits with close family and friends usually after a meal when we’re just chatting. I like being able to listen in but often the conversation turns to a topic where I’m listening but nothing to contribute. I like that I can keep practising my art…
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Beach holiday kits – final set up and paintings
So the last few posts have been the set up of my kits however I realised for my holiday I was limited with space and had to make some hard choices. So here’s what I actually took with me and what I actually used. The first kit I kept in my handbag for ink and…
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Beta series Stillman and Birn – initial thoughts
Second painting in my Beta series Stillman and Birn and so far not that impressed. This is the brand that both Liz steel (urbane sketcher) and Jane Blundell (fine art watercolour painter) both seem to agree on but my initial sketch and wash seem ok but there was a little pilling where there were too…
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New sailor fude 55 pen test sketches
Just got my new sailor fude pen with sailor converter and it’s bumped my flat rosemary and co brush from my kit. I actually bought one super cheap from temu but in this case it was a case of you get what you pay for the ink had to be pushed out manually. I managed…
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Outdoor festival and new water pots
Been seeing a few as and people buying Baohong watercolour paper from Temu so I thought would check to see what the fuss is about. Found some stainless steel watercolour pots for about $5 I’ve seen this around $20+ at other art stores before and had been using old salad dressing pots. However they’re getting…
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