Category: watercolour pencil

  • Perpetual Blooms

    Perpetual Blooms

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    Liz

    Some time ago I planned a series of small paintings with the theme of ‘Perpetual blooms’. At the time, I only painted one, but now several years later when I’m looking for an avenue to get back into my painting practise, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity.

  • W is for Watercolour Pencil

    W is for Watercolour Pencil

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    Liz

    While my watercolour pencil explorations are on hold while Inktense and watercolour paints take over my interest, I will always have a fond thought for my hardworked watercolour pencils. They’ve done a lot of work.

  • I is for Inktense

    I is for Inktense

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    Liz

    Now the key to these fantabulous pencils is that while they act like watercolour pencils for the most part, once they are dry they are not watersoluble – like waterproof ink. This may sound like a small difference, but it isn’t. Because they dry waterproof, you can go over and over and over your piece…

  • Sunday Sketches – blatant experiments with watercolour

    Sunday Sketches – blatant experiments with watercolour

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    Liz

    I had nothing tonight for Sunday Sketches, but I did have about an hour to come up with something, despite being exhausted. I found myself playing. I didn’t know what to draw initially (though it is not like I don’t have a pile of unfinished works lying around, but hey, my thought capabilities at the…

  • Lesson – more experiments with watercolour pencils

    Lesson – more experiments with watercolour pencils

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    Liz

    I did little more than fifteen minutes of art today. I didn’t time myself, so it could have been up to half an hour, but it was at least fifteen minutes. The new challenge for Illustration Friday was released and this is the painting that came to mind.

  • Tools and Techniques – Watercolour lifting out and scrubbing

    Tools and Techniques – Watercolour lifting out and scrubbing

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    Liz

    As a bonus, I started reading one of my watercolour painting books, and encountered the technique of lifting off. The book basically described how you can lift off paint by wetting the dried paint with a brush and then blotting with tissue. When I experimented with acrylic glazing, I wiped the glaze with a cloth…

  • My Creative Backyard – Creative Every Day

    My Creative Backyard – Creative Every Day

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    Liz

    I spent tonight tidying up my art corner in order to fit the primed boards inside the house. Since we had children and lost the two spare rooms, everything that didn’t migrate to the rubbish bin ended up out in the hobby room. The hobby room which houses two computers, a display case, four bookcases,…

  • Sunday Sketches – Watercolour pencil becomes watercolour paint

    Sunday Sketches – Watercolour pencil becomes watercolour paint

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    Liz

    When I came to do the red centres of the flowers (around the yellow eye), I had to switch from watercolour pencil to watercolour paint because as with my pastel sticks, my red watercolour pencils are annoyingly hard and often scratch the surface of the paper. Do any of you ever encounter this problem? I…

  • Sunday Sketches – Red Parrot Pea

    Sunday Sketches – Red Parrot Pea

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    Liz

    I don’t have a completed piece for Sunday Sketches this week. What I do have to show you here is a work-in-progress watercolour pencil experiment.

  • Inspiration Point – The Black Forest

    Inspiration Point – The Black Forest

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    Liz

    God, this is scary – actually writing it down. Does this mean I actually have to follow up on it? 😀 It is more of a project than a resolution, but it is something that has been floating around in the vast empty space I use for a brain for several years now, and it…