Canadian art blog with thorough (and at times, salty) product reviews, with special emphases on watercolour and pastels.
Canadian art blog with thorough (and at times, salty) product reviews, with special emphases on watercolour and pastels.
If you didn’t know by my site name already, I love gnomes! I am picky about the type of gnomes to collect though. I don’t like the ones with an aged face. My favourite is the kind with just the nose and beard. The Marianne Design Creatables Tomte Gnome Dies are exactly what I wanted, …
Have you ever used just a few coloured pencils for a portrait? I challenged myself and created my first five coloured pencils drawing, using Prismacolor Premier pencils. I drew this portrait of actress Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina Spellman with black, canary yellow, poppy red, white and chocolate. While I love using Prismacolor Premier coloured pencils, …
Do you do themes? Each year, I try to pick a theme for festive greeting cards. Last year, for Lunar New Year, I used koi. This Lunar New Year I have created crane themed greeting cards for my family. I created these using the Hero Arts Ink Painting Scene stamps and the Symbols of Fortune …
Out of the Stampin’ Up January – June 2022 mini catalog, the Symbols of Fortune DSP (designer series papers) are my favourite. I did not buy the Crane of Fortune stamp set though; I already have a Hero Arts Ink Painting Scene stamp set that has cranes and mountains. The papers in this designer series …
For the past 4 years, I have been using Prismacolor Premier coloured pencils to do all my portraits. I know them like the back of my hand, so to speak. Read on for my honest review of Prismacolor Premier coloured pencils. What They Are Prismacolor Premier coloured pencils are wax based. The biggest set they …
After hearing so many good things about Ohuhu alcohol markers, I finally bought a set on Amazon for CAD$24 when it was on sale. At just a dollar a marker, this set is considerably cheaper than Copic, which is the gold standard as far as alcohol markers go. So, at $1 per marker, is this …
