Category: Oil Sticks, Paint Sticks and Markals
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Portraits At The Pub 53: Mariam
Although I’ve been really busy with the hiking channel I have been keeping up mostly with the Portraits at the Pub – here’s one session from November where I struggled to get a likeness of Mariam but I think I got some good portraits nonetheless in my usual mix of media – like this paint…
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Portraits At The Pub 52: Marian, Betty and Julian
Forgot to post these from last week, it’s not often we get to draw two people at once at Portraits At The Pub, it makes it a LOT harder, because you always get one person better than the other, one likeness will be closer than the other, or you spend too much time on one…
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Portraits At The Pub 49: Rick
I’ve been off with Jaunt 4 and then recovering from same, I forgot to post the portrait session I did just before I left – actually the night before. Rick was posing for us in an ALL GOOD sweatshirt, and as always I was as obsessed about the fabrics and clothes as the model. Not…
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Sunflowers, Irises and Sensory Gardens
Going full Van Gogh with this selection – I mean me? Painting Sunflowers and Irises? With my VG Standom? As i found they aren’t easy to paint or draw, but the real reason for painting and drawing these is that The Friends of Queen Promenade have stepped up and planted some amazing things on Queen’s…
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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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Portraits At The Pub 42: Mike
Back again at the Portraits at the Pub at the Lamb, and this time we have a country theme – sorta. Yee-ha! Mostly ink pieces this time, with a paint-stick portrait for old times sake, it was great to see the old gang who had been away the last session – it had been six…
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