Tag: Pigment
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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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Abstract Advent: Week 2
Last week was a blast, this week for the Abstract Advent the Christmas Shit™ started to bite, and I found it harder to juggle meeting up with people, portrait sessions, getting all the cards and parcels off in a panic because like storms, flooding, wrong kind of wind, snow and ice on the roads as…
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Jurassic Jaunt Part 4: Mupe Bay & Great Fossils of Rock
Before the Mupe Bay Show Next day at the third attempt I was determined to get to Mupe Bay – the easy way, and with plenty of time to paint it, via the Fossil Forest which geologically nerdy friends of mine had told me about. I had gone past there a few times and saw…
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The Ethical Artist: being green & creative
Fairly recently I decided to stop using single-use plastic to create my artworks to be more green. This sounds quite easy, but in reality it’s quite hard since so much stuff arrives in plastic, and some things don’t exist in refillable form, so I have to hack things or work around them. Case in point…
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