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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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