After some long manic days, managed to clear a site for my art studio to be built on. It's a huge relief to reach this stage as the company...
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The 2023 Colour Palette
This week I've been thinking about the colours in my watercolour palette. My 2022 palette included three Daniel Smith primatek colours as special...
Supergranulator Swatching
For my second and final set of swatches today, I turned to the supergranulators. Now being the owner of three sets of Schmincke supergranulators,...
Artgraf Swatching
It's a new year and I want to be out painting as soon as possible so that I can get a set of paintings worth including in an entry to Landscape...
Christmas Art Stash 2022
Happy holidays everyone! I thought I'd put up here all the new art gear I've been gifted today as it's a bit of a sneak preview of what to expect...
Supergranulating Swatches
Before having my first go with the shire supergranulators, I thought I'd swatch both of my supergranulating sets. This is in the back of an old...
Polychromos Swatching
So I've done a huge swatch of those Polychromos coloured pencils and here it is. They look good. Even the cobalt green and rose carmine will end...
Birthday Stash 4/4: Everything Else
And then there's all this other stuff: - a backpack big enough to fit the big white plastic bits that come with my easel. No more lugging two...
Birthday Stash 3/4: Polychromos Coloured Pencils
And there's more. A set of 36 Polychromos coloured pencils, a case with room to expand to 60 pencils and a couple of pads of cartridge paper. ...
Birthday Stash 2/4: Fineliners
Next up are these fineliner pens, complete with pen case and extra smooth watercolour paper to use them on. The case is big enough to also fit the...
Birthday Stash 1/4: Schmincke Supergranulating Watercolours
So it's my birthday and I've got a lot of new art gear. Jeepers. So much that I've split it all over four posts, three of which will set me off...
Third Stone From The Sun
It was too hot yesterday to be outside painting. So I spent the day indoors watching YouTube videos of people swatching the colours from the super...
Inktense Purple Mix Testing
As I explain in the next post, I wanted to test out what sort of purples I could get from mixing the reds and blues in my inktense pencils. Here's...
Oil Pastels: A Pause For Reflection
I've just reached the end of my first 12*8 inch oil pastel pad and thought I'd use this as an excuse to review my progress with the oil pastels. I...
The 18-Colour 2022 Palette
My second job was to load up the Mijello palette that I got for Christmas. It roughly follows colour wheel order but I've been careful to save the...
Testing Out New Colours
It didn’t look too cold outside today so I was out of excuses. It was time to get outside with the watercolours and start painting again. But...
Christmas Stash
As life slowly reverts back to (the new) normal, it's time for me to show off what new art gear I got for Christmas. First up is a Meeden...
The Gusti Leder Yannick Stationery Case
First a bit of news. As well as putting detailed posts up here, I share my artwork in other places. One of those places is Instagram where the...
Oil Pastels!
It's my birthday and the front page headline on stash news is that I’m going to be trying out oil pastels. The wife bought me a set of 24...
A Six Colour Palette and the Mind The Gap Approach to Colour Theory
Yesterday's painting got quite messy and I found that, when I removed the painting from my watercolour block, some of the paint or ink had leaked...