Rachel Fong Art – my journey into watercolour and life
-
Travel sketches – cruise holiday
I went on a cruise earlier this year our first since kids and here’s some of the sketches from my Hanhumule travel notebook. It was the perfect size as I could bring it every where and do a quick ink sketch then paint sometimes on the spot and sometimes later. Also work up early to…
-
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
-
From the vault – dissection of a finger winner of the gokawa award
Amongst the other artefacts that have surfaced after 20years from under my mother’s staircase was a giant finger that I had made out of plasticine in high school. I recall this was another one of those I-wonder-what-I-can-do-with-plasticine moments. At the time I was sketching hands and fingers just for fun and so decided to naturally…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Another sketchbook done
First time experimenting with a gif! These are my favourites It was nice to experiment with ink and wash true to the name. Usually when I use that term I think of waterproof ink followed by a watercolour wash. But this sketchbook I experimented with sketching in water soluble ink and then just painting water…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
Rachel Fong Art 