Tag: Dye
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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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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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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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Life Drawing #70 – Gabriella (Megan)
This session was all about ink. Several fountain pen ink varieties from iron gall ink aka Diamine Registrar’s blue/black ink, Rorher & Klingner’s Sketchink ‘Lotte’ Black ink and my regular Indian inks but with new flex nibs (Zebra G and Nikko G) for my dip pen. The idea was to use them in my JinHao…
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Life Drawing #25b – Sarita
As you might have guessed, unlike the other creative endeavours I’ve felt that the life drawing has been rather unsuccessful in recent weeks. Well enter Sarita, an amazing model. Turns out my ennui was more the fact I was uninspired by the models we have been having (mostly repeat appearances) who quite often look bored,…
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