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Reading Time: 5 minutesSo, after an introduction and an exploration of natural inorganic pigments, we now turn our attention to natural organic pigments. Here, of course things could become more complex as we noted previously. The natural inclination and one I have seen in some of the extant …
Reading Time: 9 minutesPreviously, we discussed some basic ways of categorising pigments, looking at the organic/inorganic and natural/synthetic definitions and then progressing a little into qualities in use. I am going to continue this, in a series of four further posts, diving a little deeper in the categorisations …
Reading Time: 6 minutesLast week I decided to attempt a walk I have been wanting to do for some years, and visit Gibson Mill and Hardcastle Crags up along Hebden Water. Today was a clear example of the thing it is always worth remembering – when going out …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a quick one… Winsor and Newton have recently done a promotion where they have given out packs of their postcard paper, for artists to submit an image for a global online and physical gallery. Here’s mine The full gallery is here: https://www.winsornewton.com/pages/global-online-gallery
Reading Time: 4 minutesJust a quick little round up from this year’s Unity Day. After growing quite large and raucous again, Unity day has had a bit of a reset in the last couple of years, asiming to focus again on a more stall and market oriented event. …
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnce again we have had a nice sunny day for the annual Kirkstall Festival, and once again I have to entirely admit that we spent much of the day in the Beer Tent. I’ve noticed something over the last few years and that is that …
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s funny, in a way, how artistically and photographically I’ve come in a bit of a circle with the new Fuji Camera. I embraced my DSLR in a massive way about 20 years ago now, taking in all the technical abilities of the digital format. …
Reading Time: 7 minutesI’ve always wanted a full frame fisheye lens, from when I was shooting like crazy with my DLSRs – I had an adapter than (not very effectively) turned the image into a circular (albeit cropped) fish eye, but this has never quite been my thing. …
Reading Time: 5 minutesI took the new camera out of a proper walk, to get a better understanding of what it can do – there’s so much to learn! While I am reasonably expert at Digital Photography any new device, and one that is different from what I …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnother quick one, with another new tune. This was just a bit of messing about, testing the Black VCO2 with a repeating hook and letting about 6 LFOs all do their thing, manually riding the filter cutoff. Add a beat, a bassline, some swells from …
