Tag: Chemistry
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Shocking Pink: Tempera Paint Stick Lightfast Tests
When I was shopping around for paint sticks after I realised that the KingArt ones were too expensive to ship over from the States, I realised that there weren’t any ratings or lightfastness tests for paintsticks. They are meant for kids after all – but as we found in the Great Lightfast Test, kid’s materials…
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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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Return To The Hollow Tree / No Fishponds
A slight return to a few previous haunts with some new techniques but with a few surprised with a couple of recent pieces not posted to Instagram! I’d scoped out Fishponds Park as a place I’d like to work back at the start of lockdown in spring, especially the ponds themselves. But at the time…
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John series
A series of drawings of John in his element – including the first drawing I did with the Derwent XL blocks (#1 – ‘The Ghoul’). He called it ‘The Ghoul’ so the name stuck – but oddly that is my favourite of the four . These will hopefully lead to a proper portrait in future,…
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