Tag: colour mixing
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Pocket porcelain palette anko knock off of the etcher
Couldn’t walk past this discovery in Target. Today I was trolling the art supplies and the portable paint brush stand caught my eye. When I looked closer I noticed the word porcelain then the picture looked just like the etcher pocket porcelain palette. For $12. Porcelain you can’t go wrong decided to buy it just…
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Line and wash painting book reviews
It’s been a while since I’ve done a book review. I’ve just got a haul of watercolour and ink painting books from the library as I’ve been delving into the world of calligraphy and sketch and wash. Modern Watercolour by Kristin Van Leuven This is an old goody that have popped up. Flipping through this…
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A little bit of shimmer makes everything magic
I had fun playing with some mica powder today. I had picked up some from temu last year and I’ve been meaning to experiment with adding it to ink to see if I could make my own shimmer ink. On my last trip to Japan I had picked up a few shimmer inks so I…
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Acrylic colour mixing from the vault
More notes from the vault. It’s interesting because I had forgotten I had learnt to mix browns and had to relearn all over again when I learnt to mix with water colour. Also what a great way to learn by photocopying the information and experiment right on the page.
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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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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…
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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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