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Showing posts with label art materials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art materials. Show all posts
Sunday

Diamine Inkvent Favorites - 2021 Red Edition

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In spite of an overflowing cabinet of fountain pen inks, I purchased the 2021 Inkvent Calendar by Diamine to have 25 new inks to explore dur...
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Monday

Holidays in Ink Week 3

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  The Holidays in Ink Challenge certainly got me out of my comfort zone this week. I had some new art adventures, discovered more about what...
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Holidays in Ink Materials

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It's hard to believe that the Holidays in Ink Challenge will be starting in a week! I'm getting so excited about it that it's d...
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Saturday

Holidays in Ink Challenge 2020-21 -- Details and Prompt Lists

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During the busy holiday season, I'll be taking this Holidays in Ink Challenge, enabling me to just sketch with pen and paper when the go...
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Tuesday

Art Retail Therapy at the Dollar Store

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  Most of us are experiencing a greater-than-usual sense of cabin fever this year due to the pandemic. With stores having reopened, I donned...
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Saturday

Arteza Real Brush Pens -- Review and Comparisons

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  In preparation for my Holidays in Ink challenge, I've got my eyes open for supplies that might be interesting to work with. That'...
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Sunday

Holidays in Ink, Anyone?

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  Here in the northeastern United States, October is the month when we plein air painters flock outside to capture the very short burst of p...
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Friday

Update on the Makeup Kit to Painting Set Conversion

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I've been enjoying my gouache paintbox that I converted from a makeup kit in my previous post , and have some updates for my readers....
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Wednesday

Makeup Kit to Painting Set Conversion

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About five years ago, my daughter abandoned a makeup kit in the bathroom closet. It opened to reveal slide out trays with metal pan...
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Thursday

Stillman and Birn Nova Trio Sketchbook Review

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Immature Bald Eagle, gouache on gray paper of a Stillman & Birn Nova Trio Sketchbook (Click title if full review does not appear.) ...
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Wednesday

Rewetting Gouache -- Tips and Tricks

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A couple of my gouache (left) and watercolor (right) palettes with some little sketches. The small, airtight plastic container has tit...
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Saturday

Twenty White Gouache and White Watercolor Brand Comparisons

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When I want a bright white highlight on a sketch, I often count on white gouache to do the job. All whites are created equal, right? W...
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Thursday

Lightfastness Tests -- Charvin Water Soluble Pastel Painting Sticks

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In January, 2015, I made swatches of the 48 colors in the Charvin Water Soluble Pastel Painting Sticks set, and cut the strips down the c...
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Wednesday

A Day at the Farm

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  11x17" (across the spread) in a Stillman & Birn Zeta Sketchbook Background monoprinted in several layers with a Gelli Printi...
Sunday

Kinda Blue

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The sketch above is Posie, my studio assistant, rendered directly with blue Big Brush Pitt Pens by Faber-Castell on heavy Pescia 100% rag...
Monday

Monoprinting in a Sketchbook Part I

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There's been a lot of buzz out there lately about the new Gelli Printing Plates, which enable artists to use traditional acrylics to cre...
Tuesday

Helderberg Escarpment at Thacher Park

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Golden Airbrush Paints (painted with a regular synthetic brush) Stillman & Birn Beta Hardbound Sketchbook This sketch was d...
Friday

Golden Airbrush Paints and Silverpoint Ground --- Who knew!

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Golden Airbrush Acrylics on Silverpoint Ground 8.5x11 across a two page spread in a Stillman & Birn Beta (180 lb) hardbound sketchboo...
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Tuesday

Summertime at the Beach

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11x17" across a two page spread of a Stillman & Birn Beta Hardbound sketchbook Golden Fluid Acrylics I think this is one of ...
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Thursday

House Portrait Sketch

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About 6x8", across the spread of a Stillman & Birn Epsilon hardbound book Caran d'Ache Supracolor Soft Ivory Black Thi...
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