Derwent Graphitint

Derwent Graphitint

Reading Time: 2 minutes While down in Norwich the other month, I could not of course resist the lure of Jarrolds art shop again. This is alternatively heaven, or a way to spend all the money you don’t have, if you are like me, with a mixture of high 

Avocado Ink

Avocado Ink

Reading Time: 3 minutes Prompted by my continual playing with natural pigments in my paints, I made a batch of Avocado ink the other day. This is perhaps one of the better known vegetable dyes, creating a relatively stable and lightfast dusty pink colour. I’ve brewed up a couple 

Sumi-e Inspired

Sumi-e Inspired

Reading Time: 3 minutes I do sometimes have to admit that I am a compulsive buyer of anything arty that looks interesting, even if I have no idea what I intend to do with it. But every now and again it does mean I escape my fixation with watercolours 

Doodles

Doodles

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have recently been in some rather lengthy training for work, and while I have always been a doodler in meetings, I had one of my small sketchbooks with me and throught I would do my doodles in the sketchbook. I was quite impressed with 

More Brusho

More Brusho

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Some further experiments with brusho, I have been playing more with using it like inks and painting stems and grasses.

Brusho

Brusho

Reading Time: 2 minutes I found this amazing stuff via Fred Aldous, when I was researching things I could spend a lovely £100 Voucher on. Brusho Crystal Colour is a powdered ink pigment which coems in a number of colours – and (especially as it is incredibly cheap) it 

Line Art

Line Art

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have been going through some old archives recently, as a part of a grand tidying up operation. I created these images about nearly 20 years or so ago now, to illustrate lyrics I was writing at the time. Very teenage angst kind of stuff which