Category: Gear

My Approach To Posterised Paintings

This article is one that's been bubbling away in my head for a while. It came to the boil last night when I asked an AI app to critique one of my...

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Fixative On Soft Pastels

Before my next painting, which will be in soft pastels, a long overdue experiment. If Iā€™m ever to sell soft pastel paintings (and I'm planning on...

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The NeoLucida XL

Iā€™ve invested in some new gear. This has been on the cards for a while but it was having to measure out three grids of different sizes for the...

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M Graham Landscape Set Swatching

I had just the right amount of time to spare today to do some swatching, and it's the turn of the M Graham landscape watercolour set. It's an odd...

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Soft Pastel Swatches

The swatching continues with the soft pastels. As I said before I have a set of 28 portrait colours, a set of 14 cloudy sky colours and a set of 14...

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Crystalline Watercolour Swatching

Looks like today's going to be a swatching day. I started with the crystalline watercolours. These are made by Jackmans and are only available...

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2024 Birthday Stash 2: New Media

And here's the second post of birthday stash. Here's what we have: There are loads of soft pastels. Iā€™ve never used these before but, if...

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2024 Birthday Stash 1: Books

Here are the four new books I got for my birthday. Reviews will be posted up here in due course. I've also ordered another book, one that's an...

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Sparkle Brush

So it was my birthday yesterday. I have three new art books and have ordered a fourth, along with some interesting new art gear, with some birthday...

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Two New Artgraf Blocks

Iā€™ve meaning to do this for ages but I finally got around to buying red and green Artfraf blocks to extend my collection to eleven colours. I'll...

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And we’re live!

A lot of this is similar to what came before. But will this new website platform make anything better for the visitors? Well: ā€“ The blog itself...

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Inktense Pencil Squad Tinkering

I'm taking a day off from painting, so here's a post with some swatching. I saw that Jacksons were doing deals this week on inktense pencils, so I...

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Random Painting Idea Generator

I might have retired as an actuary but you can't keep me away from spreadsheets. Ā On my walk today, rather than thinking about what painting I...

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Glazed Balls

My year end painting hiatus is still on but swatching doesn't count as painting in my book and there's an experiment that I've been meaning to try...

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New Books

Happy Christmas everybody. Unwrapping is over. Ā I'm now making my way through my job list: - squash up all the wrapping paper and put it in the...

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