Tag: Materials
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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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Canela 1: Life Drawing – Maurice
Many years before the pandemic I intended to check out the sessions at the Canela Cafe in Hampton Court but never did – the longer journey put me off. They do a variety of life sessions and portraiture, and I’d been at the previous week’s private view and scoped the place out – I really…
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Portraits At The Pub 37: Ian
I’ve been a bit slow posting work – this is the portraits session from over two weeks ago..a lot has happened since then! Unusually I only did four or five pieces – I think there is one I banned from posting, but all pretty good. Particularly like the Van Gogh style paintstick piece – it’s…
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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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