Tag: United States
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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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Me vs AI: Artificial Intelligence?
It might seem strange for me to be using artificial intelligence (AI) after ranting about it ripping me off, but I’ve used A1 (as Bob Mortimer calls it) tech since 2015’s gimmicky Deep Dream. The issue for me is that I’m expected to pay for a technology that is leeching off this very blog for…
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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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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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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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