Rachel Fong Art – my journey into watercolour and life
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Basic Ink sketching calligraphy kit
Putting together this kit as a Christmas present and I think this might be the most basic starter kit without having to buy a converter. The Fabriano Venezuela is a hard cover notebook and from my test watercolour painting it seemed to hold up well under wet on wet washes well. It isn’t as nice…
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Limited colour pallette and smaller Plein air kit
Packing less always forces you to choose what’s essential. For more info about this kit see my previous post. Here’s some of my initial paintings using my Jackson sketch book, drawing with waterproof ink and then using the spray to squirt water into the lid and using my smaller basic demi palette from the art…
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Upcycled makeup case to plain air kit
I’m still looking for a replacement for my amazing A5 Plein air case which is falling apart. It only lasted a year or so with constant use so looking at options that are leather. I have my eye on the Kiki k sales as they use leather and the A5 continental organiser is the closest…
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New sailor fude 55 pen test sketches
Just got my new sailor fude pen with sailor converter and it’s bumped my flat rosemary and co brush from my kit. I actually bought one super cheap from temu but in this case it was a case of you get what you pay for the ink had to be pushed out manually. I managed…
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Reflections of a reflection
I love this picture as it captures our first roadtrip in our new 4wd camping out west in the bush. I usually enjoy painting on roadtrips but it was our new car my husband didn’t want me to paint in the car. So for this trip I did more sketching whilst we were driving and…
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Reflections on learning to cross stitch and the digital age
My daughter recently came home with a cross stitch kit despite being completely not interested in anything related to needlework. It was on sale and my husband bought it for her. I immediately took out all my old projects half finished and new from when I was a kid 3 longstitch and 3 cross stitch.…
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New A6 Plein air journal in leather set up
At our last camping trip I was sitting too close to the fire and some embers out a hole in the zip of my beautiful hand made pink Plein air watercolour colour kit. The zip had just snapped too so since then been hanging out for the black friday sales to find a new one…
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QLD vs NSW covid border lockdown
This is an painting I did with the $2 paint from office works and a cheap art journal from the newsagent. We went for a holiday down at Coolengatta and stayed a street away from where they had locked down the border between QLD and NSW. It was probably the first time I sat down…
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Watercolour ground test #2 texture
Based on my first watercolour ground test I found that 2-3 layers was optimal on normal printing paper (Watercolour ground tests – part 1. I was also curious to see if I could create texture with watercolour ground. I bought a few different types of rollers and sponges from Temu. I started with drawing 3…
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Pink sunrise – obsession with painting pink clouds and testing Baohong paper
I saw the most beautiful sunrise the other day it was the last day of a weekend away and didn’t get a chance to do much painting so decided to get up early to go for a run and paint the sunrise Plein air. I was able to test out my new Daiso folding chair…
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