Tag: Art Tools
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Watercolour ground tests part 2 the results!
My previous post Watercolour ground tests – part 1 sets out the conditions for the tests that I did. After painting I actually did another test to see if I could lift the watercolour off and was able to in all. This was from the ultramarine blue which is easy to lift. Conclusions 1 layer…
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Bible journalling case art tool kit case set up
Just bought a new case from Temu hoping it would be a suitable replacement for my DIY art tool case. Art tool cases or any A5 folio or compendiums cover with zips are hard to find online. I’ve been searching for ages for something close to the My first plein air kit Watercolour travel kits…
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Watercolour ground tests – part 1
Watercolour ground is a medium which transforms any surface into a watercolour paper. So far I have found it to be effective on colouring books and creative bible journaling and found that I needed about 2-3 coats for it to not bleed through. See my previous post Watercolour ground for more info. One of the…
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Outdoor festival and new water pots
Been seeing a few as and people buying Baohong watercolour paper from Temu so I thought would check to see what the fuss is about. Found some stainless steel watercolour pots for about $5 I’ve seen this around $20+ at other art stores before and had been using old salad dressing pots. However they’re getting…
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Movie night
The first ‘good’ art sketch book I owned was a moleskin art notebook. I decided to test it out by simply painting what I could see. This coincided with our movie night, so what better way to test it out than to paint in front of the tv. I started with my husband sitting with…
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Comparing masking tape vs kraft tape on different surfaces
Being a novice I read a lot of different articles and came across some artists preferring to stretch the paper before you use it, some use masking tape, others use kraft tape. I bought some kraft tape and my husband had found some scotch tape. I also wanted to use a lightweight compact surface to…
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Sunrise over the everglades
Beautiful spot painting Plein air. Sunrise wasn’t as great as the year before different camping spot but the weather held up and was lovely to see he wild life wake up and test out the new arrangement for my kit. Trying to finish my A5 Strathmore watercolour journal. I don’t like the paper as much…
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