Tag: experiment
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Invisible ink experiments!
Saw some invisible ink on Temu and thought it was glow in the dark ink. But when it arrived it didn’t glow in the dark but turns out is only visible under UV light. I thought would be cool to play with the idea of hidden messages in particular hiding the word of God, which…
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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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From the vault: puzzle from a picture
Here’s another from the vault and completely forgot I had done this. We have been getting into puzzles and have just completed our first one with the family. I was pleasantly surprised to find amongst my old childhood things that I’m still going through, a puzzle I did when I was in highschool. On the…
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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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Japan travel notebook flip through and best bullet journal layouts for busy tourists
Before we went to Japan I had planned to paint my way through Japan and so brought a Hahnemühle travellers notebook to sketch and wash in and a Claire Fontaine notebook to test out for journaling. When we arrived we found out that it was rude to stand and eat and there wasn’t any places…
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From the vault – art classes
I recently had to clear out my childhood home and found all my old school books and visual art diaries and had given up art in my senior years to take on more science classes. Even in uni I had dabbled with it but with life, family, kids I had completely forgotten this part of…
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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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Review marker paper and experiments with cheap graphic marker’s
So every artist book starts out a list of supplies saying to buy the most expensive tools you can afford – paints and paper. I think this is good advice when starting to learn to paint in watercolour as you get great results especially if you want them to last a long time and the…
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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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