Tag: vault
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From the vault: puzzle from a picture
Here’s another from the vault and completely forgot I had done this. We have been getting into puzzles and have just completed our first one with the family. I was pleasantly surprised to find amongst my old childhood things that I’m still going through, a puzzle I did when I was in highschool. On the…
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Acrylic colour mixing from the vault
More notes from the vault. It’s interesting because I had forgotten I had learnt to mix browns and had to relearn all over again when I learnt to mix with water colour. Also what a great way to learn by photocopying the information and experiment right on the page.
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From the vault: first canvas oil paintings plein air
So it turns out that I have tried oil painting before and plein air nonetheless. I recall I was chosen to go to a special interschool workshop where we learnt the basics and then went to the pond to paint plein air. I was really into impressionism at the time and imagined painting like Monet’s…