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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: < 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: 13 minutesAs has probably been obvious, I have been acquiring quite a few interesting and exciting pigments over the past couple of years, starting with some earths to compliment the foraged earths that I have been collecting, and then branching out into creating some of my …
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor a Northern industrial town with a history of grime and depravation, Newcastle does have rather a fair share of art galleries. After the slight dissapointment of much of the town centre we ended up in the Laing Gallery which was rather an unexpectedly good …
Reading Time: 8 minutesWe decided on a random trip to Newcastle for this spring’s random couple of days away, for no real reason other than having never been there. I have to say I was not sure what to make of Newcastle, and I’m still not – I …
Reading Time: 6 minutesLeeds Art Gallery has been hosting an exhibition – ‘Don’t Let’s Ask for the Moon…’: Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw which I have been meaning to get to for some time, and finally managed this Easter Thursday gone, a rare day off work with nothing else …
Reading Time: 12 minutesGetting to the bottom of how pigments (and indeed different preparations thereof) behave ultimately can become a bit of a rabbit hole. I will aim in this post to wander, perhaps circuitously, through some of my thoughts and considerations when exploring and using different pigments …
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe decided to make a further attempt at Hebden Bridge and Todmorden the other day not, of course, not prompted by the aquisition of more Wallace Seymour, but solely by the suggestion of slightly better weather. After something like 41 days of solid rain in …
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have always had a bit of a journey with acrylics. While it has been around in use by artists since the 1960s, Hockney being a key early adopter, I do not recall it really being about in the 80s and early 90s when I …
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis was another Christmas list present last year, and while I’ve used the colours in various paintings I’ve not really sat down to write up a bit about them until now. I’ve always been quite taken with the work of Jean Haines, particualry her floral …
Reading Time: 3 minutesSchminke have released a set of limited edition watercolours, developed and produced in collaboration with various artists. I’d thought about ordering some of these, but generally tried to behave slightly, until they appeared in Fred Aldous, when I was in town shepherding my child about …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI mentioned the other day about the balance I am trying to achieve between a loose and slightly impressionistic style, and the more formal traditional watercolour – something that at the moment is a key part of developing my practice. Here’s some of the other …