Tag: Little Brian
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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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Canela 3: Tony / Joker Halloween Portraits
Here’s a spooky portrait session for Halloween – and not one for those who have coulrophobia – it’s Tony as the Joker from Batman! This was a lot of fun, and rather hard painting and drawing someone with face makeup on. There are two approaches – either ignore it, or go abstract, because I know…
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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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Portraits At The Pub 29: Jules
I have drawn portraits of Jules a few times before in 2020 right before the Big P and after at the start of this year. Always a good model and this time I explored using the Paint Sticks a bit like I used to with Poscas in the life drawing days, this time with a…
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