Tag: Stabilo Woody
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Back to Work: Garrick’s Temple & bushy Park revisted
Back in the dark cold depths of January, I did a drawing I absolutely hated. Now it’s not unusual for me to do a drawing all excited and end up hating it or disappointed that it’s not how I wanted, or pieces where I was unsure/unhappy and got into the groove while doing it. This…
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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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Art During a Heatwave / Night Work
So last Monday/Tuesday where I live had a heatwave – which is unusual for the UK. Bushy Park registered 39.2C beating the previous record, and nearby Heathrow registered 40.2C and Kew Gardens 40.1C, a record only beaten by 0.1 by a place in Lincolnshire. So how to work as a landscape artist in a heatwave?…
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Richmond Park 2: KillCat Corner, Lilies and Pink Sunglasses
Showing how my plein air use of media has broadened only since March, here is the second selection of work in Richmond Park. These works include pieces in black woody pencil, bright paint stick works, moody watercolour, dark fountain pen and ink, and inktense paints. Although as part one discussed, there is a desperation and…
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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 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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