Category: Equipment
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Jaunt 4 Has Started & Tent Cast
It’s been a year in the making and currently writing this from Corfe Castle sitting in a tent as the rain buckets down… So about usual then! Several podcasts already recorded – this one from yesterday and another from last night and today when I made these Green Man photographs. Frustratingly rain is stopping anything…
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Paint Stick Lightfast Tests – Over A Year On
Back at the end of April and early May last year I started the lightfastness tests of various paint stick makes – Little Brian, Kwik Stix and my original brand, KingArt. My laziness is your benefit, because over a year on they’ve been well blasted with UV in the window, and the results are surprising.…
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Hard-Up Hiker – Reviews & Tips to Save Money + Art Hiking
Related to some of the ideas that I was talking about at the end of Jaunt 3 was to work more with video. Now this new Hard-Up Hiker / Bankrupt Backpacker channel ostensibly might not seem that related to my artwork, but all going well it will. I have big plans – I am eventually…
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Shocking Pink: Tempera Paint Stick Lightfast Tests
When I was shopping around for paint sticks after I realised that the KingArt ones were too expensive to ship over from the States, I realised that there weren’t any ratings or lightfastness tests for paintsticks. They are meant for kids after all – but as we found in the Great Lightfast Test, kid’s materials…
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The 2021 Great Lightfast Test – 13 months later!
Some of you might remember the inks lightfast tests I did in 2021, or that I said I was doing a bumper test in my window, and I think I mentioned it in the Carbon Ink Review. Well a month late, and surviving the Great Heatwave, here’s the results of the 2022 Big Lightfastness Tests.…
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Beginner’s Guide To Flex Pens
In 2020 a month before the world went mad and into lockdown, I got my first fountain pen. It was a JinHao, the top didn’t fit properly, it was heavy and the nib was good but as hard as nails. I really wanted a fountain pen version of my Zebra G dip pen. What would…
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