Tag: Fabriano
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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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More plein air kits for the different styles of painting including new warm and cool triad pallete
Since I made the Upcycled makeup case to plain air kit I was looking for ways to repurpose my original A5 kit Watercolour travel kits – tools for Plein air painting and decided to go back to one of the original set ups to use up the Fabriano cold pressed pad. This kit includes –…
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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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Watercolour sketchbook comparison
Just got my new haul of watercolour sketchbooks from Jackson’s art they have a new Australian site and are offering 20% off everything. Took a few weeks for these to arrive from the UK store. Was so excited to test these out. I like to use the wet on wet sunset clouds as a great…
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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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