Tag: Jackson
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Portraits At The Pub 47: Angela and Martin
My friend Martin who is a regular at the is getting married next week, and so his fiancée Angela posed for us at Portraits At The Pub and they did a pose together at the end. It’s always nerve-wracking to draw someone you know – even more nerve-wracking to draw their betrothed, talk about pressure!…
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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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Portraits At The Pub 22 – Steve
Likeness is always a struggle during the portrait sessions, as was last week’s Portraits At the Pub with Steve. I seemed to make a lot of drawings and only one (the paint stick one that was intened to be abstract) actually look like him. Close but no cigar (but we do have a Russian hat).…
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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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