Rachel Fong Art – my journey into watercolour and life
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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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Trying out new sketchbooks from target anko
We picked up from target a new anko marker pad ($3) and some sketchbooks ($6-8) that came with a free elastic band pen holder. I really bought them for the pen holder as this will come in handy with other sketchbooks or to hold my watercolour brushes. I made one once so I’m happy to…
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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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From the vault: puzzle from a picture
Here’s another from the vault and completely forgot I had done this. We have been getting into puzzles and have just completed our first one with the family. I was pleasantly surprised to find amongst my old childhood things that I’m still going through, a puzzle I did when I was in highschool. On the…
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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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Acrylic colour mixing from the vault
More notes from the vault. It’s interesting because I had forgotten I had learnt to mix browns and had to relearn all over again when I learnt to mix with water colour. Also what a great way to learn by photocopying the information and experiment right on the page.
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Japan travel notebook flip through and best bullet journal layouts for busy tourists
Before we went to Japan I had planned to paint my way through Japan and so brought a Hahnemühle travellers notebook to sketch and wash in and a Claire Fontaine notebook to test out for journaling. When we arrived we found out that it was rude to stand and eat and there wasn’t any places…
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