Tag: Cerulean
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The 2021 Great Lightfast Test – 13 months later!
Some of you might remember the inks lightfast tests I did in 2021, or that I said I was doing a bumper test in my window, and I think I mentioned it in the Carbon Ink Review. Well a month late, and surviving the Great Heatwave, here’s the results of the 2022 Big Lightfastness Tests.…
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Jurassic Jaunt Part 4: Mupe Bay & Great Fossils of Rock
Before the Mupe Bay Show Next day at the third attempt I was determined to get to Mupe Bay – the easy way, and with plenty of time to paint it, via the Fossil Forest which geologically nerdy friends of mine had told me about. I had gone past there a few times and saw…
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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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Portraits at the Pub 1: Lucy
Sip and Sketch is now Portraits In The Pub at The Lamb – and jumping forward into newer work for the moment I went earlier this week. Really excited by what I am calling the ‘Dark Series’ – working on black paper – originally with Canford Card as per the Inktober piece that started it…
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Swan and Crane oil
I think my oils have come light years since July although I’ve not posted them until now (and in fact I am waiting for two of them to dry so I can take pictures). There are a few reasons for that, one is just practice, but also using better and bigger canvas board and materials…
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