Tag: Light
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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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Back to Box Hill Part 1: The Green Wood
When I got back from Coventry I decided to risk going back to Box Hill. I’d spent the spring and summer wanting to go there but too scared because of the lockdown especially the long bus ride, but I knew if I didn’t go there at all this year I’d be annoyed with myself and…
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Waiting For The Night: Last of the River Part 2
These are I think the last of the river pieces most done at night – that barrel has been well and truly scraped and is heading over Niagara Falls, well Teddington Lock at least…the first is a piece I did on a windy day – the nice Indian Summer didn’t last long although it has…
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