Tag: sketch and wash
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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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Beta series Stillman and Birn – initial thoughts
Second painting in my Beta series Stillman and Birn and so far not that impressed. This is the brand that both Liz steel (urbane sketcher) and Jane Blundell (fine art watercolour painter) both seem to agree on but my initial sketch and wash seem ok but there was a little pilling where there were too…
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Limited colour pallette and smaller Plein air kit
Packing less always forces you to choose what’s essential. For more info about this kit see my previous post. Here’s some of my initial paintings using my Jackson sketch book, drawing with waterproof ink and then using the spray to squirt water into the lid and using my smaller basic demi palette from the art…
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Reflections of a reflection
I love this picture as it captures our first roadtrip in our new 4wd camping out west in the bush. I usually enjoy painting on roadtrips but it was our new car my husband didn’t want me to paint in the car. So for this trip I did more sketching whilst we were driving and…
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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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Outdoor festival and new water pots
Been seeing a few as and people buying Baohong watercolour paper from Temu so I thought would check to see what the fuss is about. Found some stainless steel watercolour pots for about $5 I’ve seen this around $20+ at other art stores before and had been using old salad dressing pots. However they’re getting…
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