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Reading Time: < 1 minutes This week has been a little non-descript. It’s interesting, actually, when faced with trying to create a colour each day, even though I love colours, my mind goes blank at times. I think the first three show this. Steak dinners came into this, and other …
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have been taking some time out of manic unrestrained creativity to try and follow a few tutorials, after the success with the Winter Landscape I painted before Christmas. This has got me thinking a little about the development of my practice in watercolour which, …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Week 5 of my One Colour a Day project. I have been ill half the week and managing not much more than the odd bit of Train Simulator, and so for no real reason other than that these are some train inspired colours. The final …
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve talked a little previously on the subject of sketching and experimenting. There’s a lot of different thought’s and practice on using sketchbooks, some artists meticulously plan their images, with sketches, tonal sketches, draft versions and so on. Others feel that doing test versions removes …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Week 4 of my One Colour a Day book project. The week has started quite nicely, though the westher is still pants, but we have all started to feel quite poorly towards the end of the week…
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 …