Art materials do cost and this cost is considrable at least for those of us who paint and sketch everyday. The most costly of art materials are art papers whose prices increase without this reflecting to their quality. So the/any low budget high quality papers that can be worked with various media are more than […]
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Hahnemühle Bamboo Mixed Media 265gsm paper review
That is how Hahnemühle describes its Bamboo Mixed Media paper. Suitable for all media, strong, age resistant and above all environmental friendly. The above description attracted my attention so I bought a pad, I tested the paper and here is my honest review.
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Migrating my website to Classic Press CMS
Hi everyone! I’m back to my blog with a bit more technical post about my website’s setup, that will probably interest those of you who have designed and run your personal portfolio websites on Wordpress and you are already fed up with the dysfunctional new default editor. If you belong to this category of people […]
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Etchrlab and Stephanie’s Law Mini Porcelain Palette Review
As I wrote in my previous blog post I modified my tiny and trusted watercolour box in order to hold 30 colours. The idea of holding 30 colours in tiny wells came to me when I realized that large watercolour palette boxes were neither convenient nor useful for my painting style, that is to paint […]
Tiny 30 Watercolour Palette Box Modification- DIY Watercolor Box
I have talked elsewhere about my tiny watercolour box that it is actually a modified old cigarette case. This box turned out to be the most convenient box for outdoor sketching as it is small, compact and super lightweight.
New and Improved Van Gogh Watercolours Review
Royal Talens the company that produces Van Gogh watercolours, updated recently this line of watercolours by adding some new colours and improving the consistency of the already existed ones. Van Goghs are the watercolours that I favour, partly because I use them for countless years due to their high quality and affordable price but mostly […]
How to Mix Skin Tones in Watercolour
Hi! I’m back on my blog with some new tutorials and reviews. Here I share with you a rather straight forward tutorial on how to mix skin tones in watercolours. The concept is quite simple. I’ve swatched light medium and dark skin colour mixes, that are useful when you are painting realistic portraits.
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How to scan large watercolour paintings and edit them on GIMP – A step by step tutorial
Large watercolour paintings can be quite tricky to photograph sometimes. The camera has to be of a very good quality, with very good lens that doesn’t distort the edges of the image, and good sensors that can catch accurately the colours of the painting, mounted on a tripod with a good light installation in order […]
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I recommend to visit the following websites too: Pat Harrison ( Great Paintings in Oil and Acrylics) Andre Jute ( Best Seller Author and Painter) Russ Stutler ( the semi god of urban sketching) Matthew Mattingly ( great art by an all weather artist) Brian van der Spuy ( artist and author) Michael Daley‘s very […]
Night Starry Skies Series
Seascapes Landscapes and Urban Sketches
Floral/Botanical Sketches
Wild Life Sketches
Portrait/ Figure Sketches
Still Life Sketches
Still Life Paintings
Botanical Illustrations Series
Antiquities Sketches
Wild Life Paintings
Floral Paintings
Portraits
Pet Portraits
A modified Prang vintage metal box and my new colours
Let me present you here how I modified my vintage metal Prang watercolour box. This was a box that was gifted to me among other Prang boxes. The metal box was the most promising one and so I took the decision to change it a bit. This box’s dimensions are 21,5 x 5x 1 cm […]
Prang watercolour sets review and lightfastness test
Last September I received as a gift a variety of Prang watercolour sets, sent to me straight from US. Prang watercolour sets are ( as far as I know) very popular school watercolour paints. They are not available though at European market and the sets that are retailed from European online stores are ridiculously expensively […]
Experimenting with chalk resist (masking fluid alternative) UPDATED
According to this site: Chalk resist: Chalk resist is a thick paste made from powdered chalk mixed with water. This paste is brushed onto the desired areas of a sheet; once it is dry, the thick layer of chalk protects the underlying paper from wet watercolor washes. The chalk can be easily removed by counter-rolling […]
Review Neohart A4 Watercolour Sketchbook 220 gsm paper
I have reviewed till now various sketchbooks but I want to make an honourable review to my Neochart sketchbook.