Tag: Sennelier
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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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Abstract Advent Week 3 + 2
Final week (plus 2 days) of Abstract Advent challenge, which I completed on Christmas Eve – it’s been a blast, writing this on Christmas Day – hope you all are having a good one however your celebrate it (or not). First up was Day 15, with a shape like a hole (rather than a head)…
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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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In The Night Garden
The Night Work series continues with more paintings at dusk on the river – so much so I’ve named one YAS not so much after the cliched gay slang, it stands for ‘Yet Another Sunset’. Sadly because of time and when I get to go out, and the restrictions due to COVID-19 has meant more…
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Life Drawing #69 – Lola
This was a good session again for ink but also watercolour. For the first time I’ve just got a few Cadmium Reds (Light and Deep) from Lukas and also Jackson’s own range, and I am testing them out with skin tones. A little goes a LONG way with Cad Red, and it can be rather…
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Portraits at the Pub 6: Nick
Paper is everything in watercolour, well paper and paint. I’ve always used good artist-quality paint since almost my first work posted here (currently Winsor & Newton, Lukas, Sennelier and Schmincke) but paper I have avoided because of the really high cost. As a comparison wood-pulp (cellulose) is about 2-3 times less expensive than even 25-50%…
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