...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a cool yellow containing PY53 as a single pigment. It is: Pigment(s) PY53 was developed in the 1960s and is may be known as as Nickel Antimony Titanium Yellow Rutile or Nickel Titanium Oxide. It has the chemical formula NiO·Sb2O3·20TiO2 – this is …
Reading Time: 5 minutes So after the first tests with purchased pigments, I have gone up a level and foraged a few of my own and had a go an processing these as inspired by Found and Ground. Ultimately what you are doing here is getting the raw material …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Week Three of my One Colour a Day. Including “Back to Work Day”, Minecraft, eating more crap (and some healthy smoothies), and characterised overal by a run of producing my own watercolours…
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve been thinking about making watercolours for a few months now. I am not sure why I make things difficult for myself at times, as this is plainly not the easiest way to acquire paints. I think some of this was stumbling across the interesting …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes These are just a couple more landscapes I have been working on in the run up to Christmas. The first of these is another from Wales – Yr Hen Bont in Cwm Hafodyredwydd. I’m not quite happy with this. I loved the effect from the …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Here is my second week of One Colour a Day. As before I will not explain much, other than it has been the “Twixtmas Week” when you don’t know what day it is, new year hits, and then (though I was blessed to have a …
Reading Time: 3 minutes In my general obsessive search for the weird and wonderful in the world of colour and insatiable thirst for knowledge on a subject I have of course read up about many of the weird and wonderful materials that have been used to provide pigments, gemstones …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have to be honest and say that in the run up to Christmas, as is often the case, I was not feeling particularly festive, and in my suggestions or interests for the work secret santa this year I think I put some thing like …
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have, for a while been interested in the materials produced by Culture Hustle. I think I first heard of the paint from a facebook post by Joolz Denby, and then obviously discovered the somewhat amusing vantablack/pinkiest pink/black 2.0 etc comedy between Stuart Semple and …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Just a traditional Christmas post, after the tide of children and relatives have subsided. It’s been a nice Christmas, and here are the proofs of the cards that we made this year. Needless to say, Father Christmas brought various nice art materials. So there will …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes I found these lovely zig-zag sheets of Khadi Rag the other day, and decided to paint this series of micro-landscapes. It’s been really interestng working on such a small scale, like tiny naïfs one may find in a locket.
Reading Time: 2 minutes When we left for York to go to the markets the other weekend, it was incredibly misty and frosty, thurning the fields and industrial areas of South Leeds into ‘scapes of grey and white. I am kicking myself now for not taking a large number …