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  • Paint Stick Lightfast Tests – Over A Year On

    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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  • Skyscapes

    Skyscapes

    When I was an art student in the 90’s you’d expect me to have been into Hirts and all that, but I actually was just as much into Monet’s Haystacks and the skyscapes and oil sketches of John Constable. The latter, especially his Cloud Studies and Skyscapes left a very big mark on my psyche…

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  • Prussian Blue abstracts

    Prussian Blue abstracts

    I am fond of Prussian Blue, I mean really fond of it, and for a while totally obsessed with it’s dark greeny-blue nature and it’s properties, which I’ll talk about later. It was the first modren synthetic pigment, created back in the 18th Century from dried blood (ugh) and is made from oxidised iron salts.…

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  • Ink Lightfastness Tests

    Ink Lightfastness Tests

    Weird to be presenting lightfast tests in the darkest time of the year but since last summer I have been testing the various inks I use for lightfastness, and here are the results. Lightfastness is the way pigments and dyes react to UV light – if they aren’t lightfast they fade or shift in colour…

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  • Filter Beds and Bicycles

    Filter Beds and Bicycles

    Since I last visited the Filter Beds, I’ve sold the Moon piece – thanks Linda, it’s off to it’s new home, and a lot has happened….July feels like years ago! But despite still banning the river it’s allowed as a subject and I wander by there regularly. There has been concern locally about the Filter…

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  • Back to Canbury

    Back to Canbury

    I hinted at the coloured ink pieces and the restricted colour range either here or on my Instagram but the ‘Canbury Shadows And Legs,’ piece below and above is the start of all that, using Parallel Pens and Rohrer & Klingner Sketchink. Unfortunately they have quite a restricted colour range, hence the blacks, blues and…

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