Art blog with thorough (and at times, salty) product reviews, with special emphases on watercolour and pastels.
Art blog with thorough (and at times, salty) product reviews, with special emphases on watercolour and pastels.
Nichol Spohr can sell me snow, and I live in Canada. When I saw her design using the Hero Arts Neighborhood Houses Fancy dies and Mountain Scene stencil, I purchased them right away with no regret, even though I truly did not need them. Every time she puts out a new design from these product …
I have been using Prismacolor Premier coloured pencils to do most of my portraits for the past four years. They are wax based, creamy and blend well, but my major gripe is that some of the colours give a lot of wax bloom. I was ready to move onto oil-based coloured pencils. I tried Lyra …
I am in love with this Stamping Bella Gnome Pile stamp. Stamping Bella produces real rubber stamps, which I prefer, because the quality is much better than the photopolymer stamps. Even if you use some weaker dye-based inks you only need one pass and the image comes out crisp. I coloured the stamped image with …
For every shaker card I’ve made, there is at least one that ended up in my trash bin. Here are some shaker cards tips I have learned from my tragic experiences, as seen on the card above. Planning Let’s face it: shaker cards require planning. Sometimes, a good idea in your head doesn’t pan out, …
Feeling a bit nostalgic on Lunar New Year, I recreated the classic Hong Kong harbour scene in with Frantic Stamper Junk Boat die. The finished size of the junk boat measures 2.65″x 1.9″, making it the perfect size for scene building or regular card sizes. First, I used a blending brush and blended in several …
