Rachel Fong Art – my journey into watercolour and life
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From the vault – ancient Egypt treasure hunt modernised
It’s always great having someone in your corner and my mum is my greatest fan. For over 20 years she’s kept my year 8 project and brings it out every now when the topic comes up at a family dinner as proof of my amazing invention and artistic ability. This has come up even more…
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Mixing inks and amazing chemistry
Recently I’ve been testing out some new ink sample colours and also decided to replace the old bottle of ink with a light brown storia sailor ink which is great for sketching and is waterproof. After my initial tests with a glass pen I decided to try out the diamine polar glow ink in my…
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Glass dip calligraphy pen and gold ink wash
I’ve been experimenting with my new glass dip pen. I have seen these only on one or two speciality sites before and wondered why people would want to buy one. It looked like a fancy dip pen when I was in the market for a super portable refillable vaccine piston calligraphy pen. But when I…
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Masking fluid waves
I’ve only used the masking fluid once or twice before using a brush but found it tedious to use, a lot of clean up and it ruined my brushes (I already knew to use the old ones). So when I saw the duck bill pen on temu decided to try again and also got a…
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Seam Art memo pad watercolour swatch
My order from temu just arrived and couldn’t resist testing out their Seam Art memo pad watercolour paint. I bought this for the magnetic case as it can fit a 24 paints for about $20 AUD. It came with the free paint and was a lot cheaper than my art toolkit pallette. The intention is…
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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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Metal stamping kit
The other day at the shops I happened to see how they do the monograming at Kiki K and noticed they use the heat transfer foil I used a while back to make illuminated verses framed using my laster printer (instead of Heidi swapp). They also charge $10 for only 3 letters. So when I…
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More plein air kits for the different styles of painting including new warm and cool triad pallete
Since I made the Upcycled makeup case to plain air kit I was looking for ways to repurpose my original A5 kit Watercolour travel kits – tools for Plein air painting and decided to go back to one of the original set ups to use up the Fabriano cold pressed pad. This kit includes –…
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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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