Tag: Orange (colour)
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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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New Live Paintings 4 & 5: Butterfly 8 & alphabet Lo-ve life
Yet more acrylic chaos with the live-streamed abstract paintings – one with a sweary alpbabet lo-life/love life theme, another as Damien Hirst pisstake with pretentious title – thanks chatGPT!- with not only one butterfly but 8 – 8 being the operative word, as the figure 8 and the infinity symbol features heavily. Also chaos because…
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Jaunt 2 – Studland / Chesil Beach
Aka ‘Don’t Go Camping In October!’ – Studland/Chesil Beach edition. I knew it would be cold, but not THAT cold – 7 degrees doesn’t sound that bad, but when you are in a tiny ultralight tent wearing almost every layer you have and you’re still freezing in your sleeping bag, then it’s less like a…
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Urban Watercolour – ♥ Death
I’ve not done an Urban Watercolour for a long while, since last last year or earlier although ‘Two Birds’ came close. Urban watercolour is where I find disused buildings or urban setting, especially graffiti and lovingly render it in anachronistic dip-pen and watercolour. This is a disused building on the Alexandria Playing Ground near Tolworth…
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Oil Self Portrait #2
Back in June (!) I teased my second self portrait in oils earlier in the year but it got as far as the second version and I never finished it because it was good weather and time for landscape painting! When the weather turned bad, I finally finished it, although I have mixed feelings about…
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