Tag: Lightfastness
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Sunflowers, Irises and Sensory Gardens
Going full Van Gogh with this selection – I mean me? Painting Sunflowers and Irises? With my VG Standom? As i found they aren’t easy to paint or draw, but the real reason for painting and drawing these is that The Friends of Queen Promenade have stepped up and planted some amazing things on Queen’s…
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Paint Stick Lightfast Tests – Over A Year On
Back at the end of April and early May last year I started the lightfastness tests of various paint stick makes – Little Brian, Kwik Stix and my original brand, KingArt. My laziness is your benefit, because over a year on they’ve been well blasted with UV in the window, and the results are surprising.…
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Cranes of Kingston
Time to talk of many things, of Cranes and Kings, you’ll have to answer to… Cranes of Kingston! Yes I have a thing about cranes they appear in many works, even are the featured star and recently the ones that tower over the horror that is Royal Exchange (yes they exchanged my former Job Centre…
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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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Portraits At The Pub 28: Lily and Ivy
Never work with children and animals they say; well after the kids from the previous portraits session, now we have Lily with Ivy the dog posing for us! Ivy was actually a really good model, very chill and didn’t move much at all, and very disinterested in the artists painting her! (I only managed to…
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