Tag: learning
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Getting back into a painting habit
When I first got into painting I was so excited to use my new paints and kits I used to paint every day. I quit Facebook for a year and it was easy to find time after dinner I would paint my family of the food. But life got busy, travel, then the sales to…
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2024 review of travellers notebooks and styles
Looking back at my notebooks in 2024 here’s a round up if the different styles and types of notebooks I’ve enjoyed the most and for the different styles and modes of travelling. The more time I have and using a reference I’m able to achieve a more realistic and detailed painting. But I’ve been trying…
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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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From the vault: first canvas oil paintings plein air
So it turns out that I have tried oil painting before and plein air nonetheless. I recall I was chosen to go to a special interschool workshop where we learnt the basics and then went to the pond to paint plein air. I was really into impressionism at the time and imagined painting like Monet’s…
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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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Watercolour books
More books to learn! A brief review – all from my local library. Every art book seems to do an intro of their favourite tools they use and it’s amazing even though I’ve read so many there’s always a tip here and there to pick up. Hazel Soan’s Art of the Limited Palette – this…
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Travellers watercolor notebook
Loving the travellers notebooks. This is the watercolor paper version and for a 25% cotton watercolor paper it’s thick and can hold water washes, great for sketch and wash and landscape paintings. Portrait it held up under the multiple layers of glazing, and was ok with scrubbing. However at one point felt like I was…
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Another sketchbook done
First time experimenting with a gif! These are my favourites It was nice to experiment with ink and wash true to the name. Usually when I use that term I think of waterproof ink followed by a watercolour wash. But this sketchbook I experimented with sketching in water soluble ink and then just painting water…
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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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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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