Tag: sketchbook

  • Line and wash painting book reviews

    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…

  • Pastels series from the vault

    Pastels series from the vault

    More pictures from the vault – year 9 or 10 art classes this time all in oil pastel. This is a great medium when learning to draw and to transition from pencil to paint because you Most of these I’m just drawing what I see and testing out the medium. Testing out the metallic oil…

  • From the vault – art classes

    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…

  • Travellers watercolor notebook

    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…

  • Travel sketches – cruise holiday

    Travel sketches – cruise holiday

    I went on a cruise earlier this year our first since kids and here’s some of the sketches from my Hanhumule travel notebook. It was the perfect size as I could bring it every where and do a quick ink sketch then paint sometimes on the spot and sometimes later. Also work up early to…

  • sketchbook – Camping and weekends

    sketchbook – Camping and weekends

    Another sketchbook done. This time I was experimenting with sketching with different water soluble inks and doing washes with them. Here is a flip through gif Here are a few of my favourites

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