Tag: travel
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Bible journalling case art tool kit case set up
Just bought a new case from Temu hoping it would be a suitable replacement for my DIY art tool case. Art tool cases or any A5 folio or compendiums cover with zips are hard to find online. I’ve been searching for ages for something close to the My first plein air kit Watercolour travel kits…
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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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Nitro world games
We went to the Nitro World games last year and it was a good opportunity to test out my Plein air painting kit. It was quite a long show and was very exciting to see all the tricks there but often between there’s a lot of waiting and preliminary entries so you are already sitting…
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Daniel Smith Watercolour sticks
My first experience with using watercolour tubes was not great. I bought a cheap paint set thinking I could use them in the studio and also be able to refill my old paint palette. Well my first mistake was buying cheap paint. I filled them up and then when it dried it cracked! I did…
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Sunrise over the everglades
Beautiful spot painting Plein air. Sunrise wasn’t as great as the year before different camping spot but the weather held up and was lovely to see he wild life wake up and test out the new arrangement for my kit. Trying to finish my A5 Strathmore watercolour journal. I don’t like the paper as much…
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Watercolour travel kits – tools for Plein air painting 2023
This is my current list of art tools, paints, brushes, palettes and paper that I use when out and about. When I first started down the rabbit hole of watercolour painting last year I did a lot of researched and the first thing every artist said was to buy the best that you can afford…
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Straddie on the way home
I painted this from a photo taken from our car behind, we were heading home from camping with friends on South Stradbroke Island, what we locals like to call ‘Straddie’. It is a beautiful spot but we had to bring all our own water, showers, there were enviro loos and travelled 40min each day so…
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My first plein air kit
I started painting again as a way to fill time whilst the kids played in the park. My oldest daughter has special needs so would often fall asleep whilst everyone played and I’ld be left minding all the stuff. So I started sketching then bringing cheap watercolour paints along to paint what I saw. The…
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