Tag: Cartridge paper
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X-Series & Marine Abstracts
Following the lead of 2020’s Zebra Abstracts I did some large A1 garden abstracts last year using some (then new) FW Acrylic Inks – called the X-Series or X-Men series due to the prominent X in a circle but I don’t want to get sued by Marvel (and I really am not a fanboy of…
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The Ethical Artist: being green & creative
Fairly recently I decided to stop using single-use plastic to create my artworks to be more green. This sounds quite easy, but in reality it’s quite hard since so much stuff arrives in plastic, and some things don’t exist in refillable form, so I have to hack things or work around them. Case in point…
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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 Week 2
The second week of Inktober – and it’s a difficult week with some rather irritatingly fantasy themed prompts and now the shiny newness is over I’m struggling to juggle things. Not so much fatigue, more that 2-3am ‘do I really have to do this?’ angst which I solved by telling myself yes you bloody well…
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Life Drawing #47 – Izi
I don’t remember much about this session apart from my excitement in trying a new medium: Stabilo Woody pencils. They are apparently ‘multi-talented’ and so am I! 😛 Intended for kids, they actually are a lot of fun as they are like large ‘unbreakable’ pencils so good for a large clumsy child like myself. They…
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