Rachel Fong Art – my journey into watercolour and life
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From the vault: first canvas oil paintings plein air
So it turns out that I have tried oil painting before and plein air nonetheless. I recall I was chosen to go to a special interschool workshop where we learnt the basics and then went to the pond to paint plein air. I was really into impressionism at the time and imagined painting like Monet’s…
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Learning perspective from the vault
So looking through my old visual art diaries from school I realised that we had learnt perspective. I recall being quite confused when I first heard of but now I can see how it can be quite powerful. I would love to try this out again to see if I can learn it properly again.…
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From the vault – the inner eye series
For my year 10 art project called mixed up images – we did a unit where we had to 1. create a collage / photo montage to create a photograph negative 2. photocopy the picture onto paper 3. Photocopy the picture to Over Head Projector (OHP) transparency (clear plastic) 4. Use the OHP picture to…
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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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Watercolour books
More books to learn! A brief review – all from my local library. Every art book seems to do an intro of their favourite tools they use and it’s amazing even though I’ve read so many there’s always a tip here and there to pick up. Hazel Soan’s Art of the Limited Palette – this…
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Travellers watercolor notebook
Loving the travellers notebooks. This is the watercolor paper version and for a 25% cotton watercolor paper it’s thick and can hold water washes, great for sketch and wash and landscape paintings. Portrait it held up under the multiple layers of glazing, and was ok with scrubbing. However at one point felt like I was…
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First travellers factory watercolour sketchbook done
This sketchbook took approx 2 weeks to complete. I had the opportunity to see my daughter’s concert We hosted and watched the first game of state of origin I still find it hard to capture live action. I tend to spend more time on the frame around it because it’s not moving. I also trialled…
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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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