Tag: urbane sketching
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Japan travel notebook flip through and best bullet journal layouts for busy tourists
Before we went to Japan I had planned to paint my way through Japan and so brought a Hahnemühle travellers notebook to sketch and wash in and a Claire Fontaine notebook to test out for journaling. When we arrived we found out that it was rude to stand and eat and there wasn’t any places…
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First travellers factory watercolour sketchbook done
This sketchbook took approx 2 weeks to complete. I had the opportunity to see my daughter’s concert We hosted and watched the first game of state of origin I still find it hard to capture live action. I tend to spend more time on the frame around it because it’s not moving. I also trialled…
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Travellers notebooks and calligraphy paper comparison
I just finished yet another Hanehmule travellers notebook and am averaging one every couple of months and have been using other notebooks for daily journaling. I would like to get back into bullet journaling but don’t want to waste my good paper so have been looking at cheaper alternatives and also experimenting with making my…
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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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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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Basic Ink sketching calligraphy kit
Putting together this kit as a Christmas present and I think this might be the most basic starter kit without having to buy a converter. The Fabriano Venezuela is a hard cover notebook and from my test watercolour painting it seemed to hold up well under wet on wet washes well. It isn’t as nice…
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New sailor fude 55 pen test sketches
Just got my new sailor fude pen with sailor converter and it’s bumped my flat rosemary and co brush from my kit. I actually bought one super cheap from temu but in this case it was a case of you get what you pay for the ink had to be pushed out manually. I managed…
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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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