Tag: Tools
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Darling Buds of May – Flower Studies
Over the last few years I’ve been forcing myself to do more flower studies. Like buildings, flowers are not something I come to naturally, but they appear in the foreground of my landscapes so I needed to be better at depicting them. (Unlike people who also rarely appear in my plein air work, a landscape…
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Portraits At The Pub 28: Lily and Ivy
Never work with children and animals they say; well after the kids from the previous portraits session, now we have Lily with Ivy the dog posing for us! Ivy was actually a really good model, very chill and didn’t move much at all, and very disinterested in the artists painting her! (I only managed to…
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Beginner’s Guide To Flex Pens
In 2020 a month before the world went mad and into lockdown, I got my first fountain pen. It was a JinHao, the top didn’t fit properly, it was heavy and the nib was good but as hard as nails. I really wanted a fountain pen version of my Zebra G dip pen. What would…
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Portraits At The Pub 26 – Mason
Mason is a Kingston University first year art student and he posed for us last week at Portraits At The Pub. He had a cyber/goth/alternative look going on, and with the lit candle and balloons (!) it was a mix of Interview With A Vampire, Mad Max and Top of the Pops circa 1984! Certainly…
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