Tag: Carbon
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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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Inktober 52 #13-26 – Half Way!
I may be a few weeks late but finally I got half way on Inktober 52. Weird to look at the 16 imaged below it feels like a marathon even if it maybe doesn’t look it. I stopped several times, most recently after the BLM pieces where I felt the prompts were a little hard…
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Online Life Drawing #3
I’d forgotten to post this set, there were some really dynamic poses chosen again by Kate and I loved drawing almost all of them. ‘Leap’ shows you exactly what you can’t do in a traditional life drawing class, freeze a moment in time like that as with a photograph. This works to the strengths of…
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Come Friendly Thames And Run Softly
Friendly or unfriendly is the Thames…These are the theme of the next two watercolours. The first is below, a piece called ‘Come Friendly Thames And Run Softly’ and is of Steven’s Ait and the Kingston rail bridge on Fabriano paper. I sat on a landing pontoon over 2 metres from the bicyclists who still insist…
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