One Colour a Day – Week 3
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…
Author: Christian
Making 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 …
Some More Landscapes
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 …
One Colour a Day – Week 2
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 …
Daniel Smith Primatik Gemstone Watercolours
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 …
One Colour a Day
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 …
The Colouriest Colours
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 …
Happy Christmas
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 …
Micro Landscapes
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.
Winter Watercolours
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 …
York Christmas Markets
Reading Time: 3 minutes We went over to York at the weekend, on a very cold and misty morning. I am kicking myself now for not getting my camera out on the journey, just to get reference shots, as the fields alongside the A64 were really inspiring (more on …
Black and White Cambridge
Reading Time: 2 minutes While I am busy archiving photos and generally sorting stuff out a little, I found these scans. Every year at High School we had a “Special Week” – with various activities. One year was a photography workshop where we took and developed out own films. …