Tag: watercolour
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Masking fluid waves
I’ve only used the masking fluid once or twice before using a brush but found it tedious to use, a lot of clean up and it ruined my brushes (I already knew to use the old ones). So when I saw the duck bill pen on temu decided to try again and also got a…
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Seam Art memo pad watercolour swatch
My order from temu just arrived and couldn’t resist testing out their Seam Art memo pad watercolour paint. I bought this for the magnetic case as it can fit a 24 paints for about $20 AUD. It came with the free paint and was a lot cheaper than my art toolkit pallette. The intention is…
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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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More plein air kits for the different styles of painting including new warm and cool triad pallete
Since I made the Upcycled makeup case to plain air kit I was looking for ways to repurpose my original A5 kit Watercolour travel kits – tools for Plein air painting and decided to go back to one of the original set ups to use up the Fabriano cold pressed pad. This kit includes –…
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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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Upcycled makeup case to plain air kit
I’m still looking for a replacement for my amazing A5 Plein air case which is falling apart. It only lasted a year or so with constant use so looking at options that are leather. I have my eye on the Kiki k sales as they use leather and the A5 continental organiser is the closest…
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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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QLD vs NSW covid border lockdown
This is an painting I did with the $2 paint from office works and a cheap art journal from the newsagent. We went for a holiday down at Coolengatta and stayed a street away from where they had locked down the border between QLD and NSW. It was probably the first time I sat down…
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Pink sunrise – obsession with painting pink clouds and testing Baohong paper
I saw the most beautiful sunrise the other day it was the last day of a weekend away and didn’t get a chance to do much painting so decided to get up early to go for a run and paint the sunrise Plein air. I was able to test out my new Daiso folding chair…
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