Gear

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I learned a lesson from my first time using watercolours, markers and inktense pencils.  And that lesson was not to attempt a masterpiece first...

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...

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...

After settling on a palette with three reds, three blues and three yellows (counting raw sienna as a yellow), I was keen to produce a new set of...

And here it is, the 2021 12-pan palette.    The squad has finally been announced.  The loser in yesterday's trail of the reds was permanent rose....

It's looking grim outside, so I thought I'd try out those inktense pencils.  It's hard to make a mess with these, so I think I’m OK with them in...

Actually, my sister messed up and ended up buying me two of those Winsor & Newton Professional 24 half pan palettes.  So I've thrown away my...