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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: 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: 4 minutesOk, so this sounds like some weird Monty Python extrapolation, and I guess I am being a little abstract here, but hey, that’s my brain. As is very obvious, I have developed a bit of an obsession with sourcing the weirdest and wonderfullest, or perhaps …
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs seems to be not uncommon with my brain, I find something, I get obsessed. I’m talking of course about more Wallace Seymour watercolours. To be fair, these are not going to become my primary materials, but there is something about them that speaks to …
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter the small set of Daniel Smith Primatek Watercolours I received for Christmas a couple of years ago, I have slowly collected a few more from this range. I am very much still in two minds about these. There is increasing muttering that these are …
Reading Time: 12 minutesThis is the first in a series of posts, leading up to a display and discussion of the various palletes (of which there are many) that I have acquired, put together and use in my watercolour practice. Both for the purposes of adding my opinions …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve just spent an absolute tonne of money on paper… While you can create impressive artwork on and with anything, it is certainly the case that for certain techniques, having good quality watercolour paper can make a lot of difference. Three of my favourites are …
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn my quest to try every weird and wonderful pigment under the sun, I have of course had my eyes set on acquiring some YInMn Blue (PB86). For those who don’t know, YInMin Blue (also known as Oregon Blue, or Mas Blue) is a relatively …
Reading Time: 6 minutesWelcome to Volume 2 of my Inside the Sketchbook series, where I have scanned and presented my sketchbooks, in the hope that they will be of use and interest to other Artists. This is a black sprial bound A4 Sketchbook, from Poundland – they produced …
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor something to do, this last week, we decided to go over the Hebden Bridge – the archetypal day out in West Yorkshire. Of course the climate-changed English Weather being what it is after a lovely hot Monday (which was actually quite beneficial to get …
Reading Time: 7 minutesAfter a bit of a flurry of pigment buying, I have got to the point I have enough different pigments to have a bit of a go at making my own colours, to slightly more defined recipes than before. Though as weill be seen, it’s …
