Tag: comparison
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Trying out new sketchbooks from target anko
We picked up from target a new anko marker pad ($3) and some sketchbooks ($6-8) that came with a free elastic band pen holder. I really bought them for the pen holder as this will come in handy with other sketchbooks or to hold my watercolour brushes. I made one once so I’m happy to…
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Testing new Chinese brushes and temu watercolour travel brushes
My mum just came back from Malaysia and gave me some new Chinese brushes she bought from her friend who does Chinese brush painting. Around the same time my watercolour travel brushes from Temu arrived so naturally had to test them all out. I was quite impressed with the Temu travel brushes they have a…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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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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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