Rosa Watercolours

Rosa Watercolours

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 

Sumi-e Inspired

Sumi-e Inspired

Reading Time: 3 minutesI 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 

One Colour a Day – Week 3

One Colour a Day – Week 3

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…

One Colour a Day – Week 2

One Colour a Day – Week 2

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere is my second week of One Colour a Day. As before I will not explain much, other than it has been the “Twixtmas Week” when you don’t know what day it is, new year hits, and then (though I was blessed to have a 

One Colour a Day

One Colour a Day

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have to be honest and say that in the run up to Christmas, as is often the case, I was not feeling particularly festive, and in my suggestions or interests for the work secret santa this year I think I put some thing like 

More Brusho

More Brusho

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

Lino Printing Experiments

Lino Printing Experiments

Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve ben planning this idea mentally for some time. As a child I have a lovely book of Joan Aitken stories illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski in his absolutely amazing silhouette style. I’ve always loved that style and as a child attempted to replicate it many 

Brusho

Brusho

Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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