...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Here you will find posts reviewing art materials and products – naturally intersecting with different catagories, but these are posts which I hope will help other artists make decsions on what to buy.
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have been meaning to try out Rosa Watercolours for a while, in my general quest/obsession to try every colour or preparation on the planet. Rosa are a Ukranian brand, with a good reputation. They are also very inexpensive, and lets face it buying Ukranian …
Reading Time: 4 minutesLondon, day 2. The general itinery seemed to split itself into West End, East End, and today we head off towards Covent Garden and the west end shops. I have enduring memories of visiting Covent Garden Market as a child, though my last quick visit …
Reading Time: 4 minutesI once read an article on Youth Crime, which had a wonderful quote from a teenage participant in the 70s, along the lines of “someone gets a wierd idea and then it just goes from there. As you will know, we like to break up …
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s probably impossible to have escaped knowledge of Temu over the last couple of years. The site that (apparently) lets you “Shop Like a Billionaire” became the darling of the younger Gen Z and the oldest Gen Alpha, amid concerns abouy Viruses, data protection, poor …
Reading Time: 9 minutesAfter picking up the Munyo “Nostalgia of Pastels” set a while ago I was interested to find a larger Mungyo set in The Range for £11.99. While I keep a large “professional standard” pallete it’s always nice to have a few more paints, and I …
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 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 …
Reading Time: 6 minutesI bought this little set of watercolours from The Range which I visted when chasing Freightliners recently, as I was taken in by the interesting and slightly different colours. It’s a bit of a niche set, and certainly not useful as the only set one …
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn a breif visit to Shipley and Saltaire, plagued sadly by back problems, I was seduced by the art shop again and decided to buy some watercolours. This is something I have played with a little, though not for quite some time, though it is …