Although my palette hasn’t radically changed in the last 12 months, I have been doing a lot of tweaks and testing during 2019. So I thought it was time to do an update. What’s in my palette DS Hansa Yellow Medium PY97 (two pans – see here for more) DS Transparent Pyrrol Orange PO71 DS...
CONTINUE READINGI just discovered that I haven’t been regularly sharing my everyday sketches – it was Feb last year when I last published a Last Week article! What???? That’s a sign of how jam packed 2019 was and that even though I was sketching a lot, I just didn’t find the time to share. So, I...
CONTINUE READINGAs mentioned previously, I can feel a bit lost when I use different paper as I can’t achieve my normal wet in wet techniques. This is especially the case when I sketch teacups as I’m dependent on the paper behaving, so I create the fun patterns on the saucer. These two sketches were done on...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve recently finished a Nostalgie sketchbook by Hahnemuhle and I absolutely loved using it! Nostalgie paper is 190gsm very smooth white paper (no cotton content) which is similar to Stillman and Birn Epsilon and Zeta (in fact it’s midway in weight between the two). Here is a photo comparing the surface with the Hahnemuhle Watercolour...
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