Tag: Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth
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Darling Buds of May – Flower Studies
Over the last few years I’ve been forcing myself to do more flower studies. Like buildings, flowers are not something I come to naturally, but they appear in the foreground of my landscapes so I needed to be better at depicting them. (Unlike people who also rarely appear in my plein air work, a landscape…
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The Best Black Fountain Pen Carbon Inks*
*of the ones I have and can afford! Any comments saying ‘oh you didn’t try this ink’ and such pedantry will require an automatic forfeit of sending me that bottle of ink, for free. 😛 Not done a equipment review for quite a while – over the last few years I’ve been trying out carbon…
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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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Dark Inside
I could tell you about my life And keep you amused I’m sure About all the times I’ve cried And how I don’t want to be sad anymore And how I wish I was in love #Mood with these literal 3AM pieces, created during the darkest period of the lockdown from the gloaming of the…
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Inktober 52 #13-26 – Half Way!
I may be a few weeks late but finally I got half way on Inktober 52. Weird to look at the 16 imaged below it feels like a marathon even if it maybe doesn’t look it. I stopped several times, most recently after the BLM pieces where I felt the prompts were a little hard…
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5PM Challenge 70-87
The virus hangs like a dark cloud over this set of work from my daily challenge – in fact one of the last pieces I did in the last set of highlights was about COVID-19, just as the first set of lockdowns were coming in, and I was in semi-isolation, avoiding London. Oh how little…
- 5PM Challenge
- About me
- Abstracts
- Artworks For Sale
- Benches
- Box Hill
- Bushy Park
- Cranes
- Dark Mode series
- Dead Tree Series
- Digital artworks
- Dorset & The Jurassic Coast
- Flowers
- Graffiti and Collage
- Hampton Court and Home Park
- Hidden Histories – LGBTQ History
- Jurassic Coast 3: A New Jauntier
- Landscapes
- Life Drawing and Painting
- Negative Space
- Night Work
- Oils
- Online Challenges – Inktober, Mynktober & Abstract Advent
- Portraits
- Quill, Ink & Dip Pen
- Richmond and Ham
- Richmond Park
- River Man series
- Rorschach series
- Sales / Contact
- Seascapes
- Self Portraits
- Sold and Not For Sale
- Still Life
- Surbiton and Kingston
- Urban Sketching
- Watercolour Landscapes
- Watercolours