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Albrecht Durer Watercolour Pencils
There are many brands of water-soluble pencils, but Albrecht Dürer, made by Faber Castell, are my favourites of the readily available ranges. They are great colours - very natural - and fairly to...
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YInMn Blue
This blog was originally from 4th December 2017, but I've updated it with another sample of this interesting pigment.I was so excited when I heard that a new pigment had been discovered. Like many...
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A. Gallo Hand Made Watercolours
A. Gallo watercolours come from Assisi, Italy. This is a honey-based range, created to be highly lightfast and free of mercury, lead, arsenic, cobalt and cadmium. These hand-made colours are available...
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Drawn to Nature - Solo Exhibition
I'm delighted to announce a solo exhibition at Gallery 11:11, a wonderful teaching studio and exhibition space in Epping, Sydney. The exhibition, Drawn to Nature, runs from the 16th October to the 30th...
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Watercolour Triads
October has been a big month! I completed my third course, the extension watercolour course Special Effects in Watercolour, last Tuesday. My solo exhibition 'Drawn To Nature' ended on Saturday and last...
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ShinHan Designer Gouache
There are 72 colours in the new ShinHan Professional Designer Gouache range, available in single 15ml tubes or in 12 or 24-colour sets. I received the Set B of 24 Designers Gouache tubes from ShinHan...
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Mastering Watercolours online course
I've just begun a run-through of Mastering Watercolours, my 13-lesson online course (including the huge introductory lesson) that delves deeply into watercolour - how to mix it, how to control it and...
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The Affordable Art Fair, Sydney
I have been a little quiet here lately as I am working solidly on a number of new paintings for the first ever Sydney Affordable Art Fair, where I am delighted to exhibiting with Gallery 11:11. We will...
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Folio Palette by Art Toolkit
I've written about the Pocket Palette, a number of times before (you can search on my blog to find them all!) The first post was back in 2014 here, and I show a number of variation in my website. The...
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My favourite all-round fountain pen
I've used fountain pens for writing and sketching since I was a teenager. I go into a lot of detail about them in my Travel Sketching course, where I devote a whole lesson to their use, and have...
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Kakimori brass nib
I love it when a company comes up with a new design for an old tool! The Kakimori company has done that with the nib, creating bullet-shaped nibs in stainless steel or brass, along with a lovely design...
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Rockwell Self-Evolving Watercolours from Canada.
Rockwell is a high quality pigment supplier, with 32 years of experience. They have recently created a number of ranges of watercolours. I was given dot-samples of these 'Magic' self-evolving...
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Peerless Transparent Watercolours
I mentioned the Peerless watercolours in a blog post in March 2014 - Travelling Light with Colour but I haven't written about them in detail before. I was contacted by the new owners of the company and...
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Kremer Watercolours
Kremer Pigmente has been providing a huge range of pigments for many purposes since 1977. They stock pigments, ready-made colours, mediums, binders, glues, gold and guilding materials and many more. I...
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'Grounded' Solo Exhibition December 2022
I've been working solidly this year on new watercolour pieces for my solo exhibition Grounded which opens on Saturday 3rd December 2022. It is on at Gallery 11:11 in Epping, Sydney, with an opening...
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Rosa Watercolours
Rosa Company was founded in 1996. Initially they created hand-primed canvas, then brushes. Acrylics were created from 2015 followed by oils. Rosa Watercolours were developed and made in the Ukraine and...
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Dirty Blue hand-made watercolours
Dirty Blue watercolours are 'handmulled with lots of passion and even more pigment' in The Netherlands. They are available via Etsy. These are mostly single pigment colours, with lots of special rare...
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Whiskey Palettes
The Napoleon, set up with 12 half pansI wrote about the Whiskey palette - my favourite half pan metal  palette - along with many of my other palettes in 2016. I also showed a couple of variations on my...
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Jane's Blacks.
I wrote a blog post in 2015 Custom Watercolour Mixes - a question of Greys about creating various mixed greys, without the use of black or white pigments. Daniel Smith Art Materials created Jane's Grey...
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Daniel Smith watercolour - full range - updated
I've been using Daniel Smith watercolours since 1995 - just two years after they were first produced. They started with just 18 colours, including quinacridone gold, sap green, new gamboge, yellow...
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