Tag: Canbury Gardens
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The Best Black Fountain Pen Carbon Inks*
*of the ones I have and can afford! Any comments saying ‘oh you didn’t try this ink’ and such pedantry will require an automatic forfeit of sending me that bottle of ink, for free. 😛 Not done a equipment review for quite a while – over the last few years I’ve been trying out carbon…
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Around Kingston & Beyond
Another very loose post compiling the odds and ends of my sketchbooks – mostly a visual tour of Kingston but a few further away but still pretty local. First up is a small watercolour of the funerary chapel next to the Cloisters, and the weird war memorial where a baby holds onto a man’s arm…
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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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5PM Challenge 88-106
This highlights roundup has been much delayed, although I have been busy drawing with new pens, new ink and new pads. I’ve been continuing to use the FPR Himalaya v2 Ultraflex for months and loved it, but found it does railroad quite a lot with R&K Sketchink especially when flexing, and my unique FPR ink…
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From the Bench: 2nd Plein Air Oil
What I find interesting about this blog is that it documents the progression – good or bad – in my work. In something new to me lilke oils this is very starkly apparent. I am usually improving on every work as I get used to the medium. Initially I thought this was a step backwards…
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Canbury Gardens Bandstand
What do you do when it’s chucking it down and you want to paint watercolours? Well, you go stand in a bandstand and do your watercolour from there! Both of these – the first one and the final version with the bandstand were done in complete rainstorms, although it cleared up on the second day.…
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