Tag: review
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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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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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New A6 Plein air journal in leather set up
At our last camping trip I was sitting too close to the fire and some embers out a hole in the zip of my beautiful hand made pink Plein air watercolour colour kit. The zip had just snapped too so since then been hanging out for the black friday sales to find a new one…
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Watercolour ground test #2 texture
Based on my first watercolour ground test I found that 2-3 layers was optimal on normal printing paper (Watercolour ground tests – part 1. I was also curious to see if I could create texture with watercolour ground. I bought a few different types of rollers and sponges from Temu. I started with drawing 3…
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Pink sunrise – obsession with painting pink clouds and testing Baohong paper
I saw the most beautiful sunrise the other day it was the last day of a weekend away and didn’t get a chance to do much painting so decided to get up early to go for a run and paint the sunrise Plein air. I was able to test out my new Daiso folding chair…
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Watercolour ground tests part 2 the results!
My previous post Watercolour ground tests – part 1 sets out the conditions for the tests that I did. After painting I actually did another test to see if I could lift the watercolour off and was able to in all. This was from the ultramarine blue which is easy to lift. Conclusions 1 layer…
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Movie night
The first ‘good’ art sketch book I owned was a moleskin art notebook. I decided to test it out by simply painting what I could see. This coincided with our movie night, so what better way to test it out than to paint in front of the tv. I started with my husband sitting with…
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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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