Tag: watercolour
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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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Watercolour ground tests – part 1
Watercolour ground is a medium which transforms any surface into a watercolour paper. So far I have found it to be effective on colouring books and creative bible journaling and found that I needed about 2-3 coats for it to not bleed through. See my previous post Watercolour ground for more info. One of the…
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Watercolour ground
My watercolour ground just arrived today. My daughter and I have been getting into bible journalling colouring books lately as it’s a fun meditative mindful activity and the bible does say to meditate on the word of God the day and night. I prefer to use watercolour to colour (faster and more vibrant) and my…
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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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Movie night
The first ‘good’ art sketch book I owned was a moleskin art notebook. I decided to test it out by simply painting what I could see. This coincided with our movie night, so what better way to test it out than to paint in front of the tv. I started with my husband sitting with…
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Watercolour sketchbook comparison
Just got my new haul of watercolour sketchbooks from Jackson’s art they have a new Australian site and are offering 20% off everything. Took a few weeks for these to arrive from the UK store. Was so excited to test these out. I like to use the wet on wet sunset clouds as a great…
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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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Comparing masking tape vs kraft tape on different surfaces
Being a novice I read a lot of different articles and came across some artists preferring to stretch the paper before you use it, some use masking tape, others use kraft tape. I bought some kraft tape and my husband had found some scotch tape. I also wanted to use a lightweight compact surface to…
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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…
Rachel Fong Art 