...a plethora of creative nonsense...
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Reading Time: 2 minutesI got to searching last night for a bit of guidance on painting dark value images in watercolour, and stumbled upon this website. Wandering away from my initial search there are a lot of paintings in a very impressionist style – very much against fussing, …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA week of cooking and dining! Pancake day, followed by Valentine’s Day (and a slightly groggy morning from curry and wine), then going out drinking for a rare occurance. We made Vermont Baked Beans and Carlin Pea Casserole.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe forgotton week. I didn’t really keep up with this week. Hence a few pallete remnants really.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter poppy that crept into my One Colour a Day book the other week I went off on a bit of a crazy exploration of wet on wet flowers over the last few days. This was very much an extensive exploration into how the paint …
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter the watercolour country lane tutorials I completed the other day I was inspired by the colours to work from some picture I took in Shipley Glen some years ago. I also wanted to play with the square format some more. Often the challenge in …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have been taking some time out of manic unrestrained creativity to try and follow a few tutorials, after the success with the Winter Landscape I painted before Christmas. This has got me thinking a little about the development of my practice in watercolour which, …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWeek 5 of my One Colour a Day project. I have been ill half the week and managing not much more than the odd bit of Train Simulator, and so for no real reason other than that these are some train inspired colours. The final …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve talked a little previously on the subject of sketching and experimenting. There’s a lot of different thought’s and practice on using sketchbooks, some artists meticulously plan their images, with sketches, tonal sketches, draft versions and so on. Others feel that doing test versions removes …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWeek 4 of my One Colour a Day book project. The week has started quite nicely, though the westher is still pants, but we have all started to feel quite poorly towards the end of the week…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is a cool yellow containing PY53 as a single pigment. It is: Pigment(s) PY53 was developed in the 1960s and is may be known as as Nickel Antimony Titanium Yellow Rutile or Nickel Titanium Oxide. It has the chemical formula NiO·Sb2O3·20TiO2 – this is …
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo after the first tests with purchased pigments, I have gone up a level and foraged a few of my own and had a go an processing these as inspired by Found and Ground. Ultimately what you are doing here is getting the raw material …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWeek 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…