...a plethora of creative nonsense...
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 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: 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: 2 minutesWhile in Hebden Bridge the other week I picked up a copy of Painting Calm by Inga Buividavice – an interesting book of watercolour ideas and techniques. In there was this globe idea which I have played with and expanded upon. I’ve chosen distinct pairs …
Reading Time: 3 minutesFacebook knows… Unsuprisingly I have had about a million and a half adverts for dubious watercolour tutorial sites crop up on my facebook recently (if you want an interesting article by the way, have a look at this) and have mostly ignored these as attempts …
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 …