Currently Browsing: ThSaunders/Waterford 5 articles
Mixed Media View of the Backyard: Expanding Your Visual Vocabulary
It’s always a great idea to take a moment and look out the window. Our neighbors at the back of our yard have a lush growth of ferns at this time of the year. I turned the page in my journal and sketched on this pre-painted background—the verso page background was in the same vein […]
What Filling a Grid in Our Journals Tells Us
I’ve been sharing a bunch of journal grids lately on the blog. Let’s get right to it—filling a grid in your journal tells you at a glance what is catching your eye in the world. For me, in this grid, it’s obviously noses. Now if you look at one of your grids and you see […]
Super Granulating Pigments from Schmincke—Again
When I first wrote about Schmincke’s Super Granulating Pigments I did a portrait demo using only those pigments. You can see blog post and video here. This year I pulled the super granulating pigments from Schmincke out again to see if I would find a way to enjoy them in portraits while using other […]
Still Playing with the Kuretake AI Liner Ultra Fine Brush Pen
Enjoying working on ThSaunders/Waterford 90lb. hot press watercolor paper in a book I bound that’s about 8 inches square. I’m still playing with the Kuretake AI Liner Ultra Fine Brush Pen. It doesn’t have a long life—not if you use it to do entire sketches. If you only brought it in for fine-line work at […]
Page by Page
Page by page I’ve been working through one of my last remaining hand-bound journals containing ThSaunders/Waterford 90 lb. high white, hot press watercolor paper. The great news is that they are still making this paper so that I could bind some more of these approximately 8-inch square books. This is one of the recent […]