Tag: United Kingdom
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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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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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Portraits At The Pub 29: Jules
I have drawn portraits of Jules a few times before in 2020 right before the Big P and after at the start of this year. Always a good model and this time I explored using the Paint Sticks a bit like I used to with Poscas in the life drawing days, this time with a…
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Wimbledon Common, Putney Heath & Cannizaro Park
I have been exploring further afield this year, feeling a bit in a rut from my usual haunts. I am surprised I kept to one corner of Richmond Park and Bushy Park for so long. So I have been exploring other parts of Richmond Park and further onto newer places like Wimbledon Common, Putney Heath…
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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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