Tag Archives: watercolour

Child’s play with soft pastels

May 17, 2010 – 11:25 am

A couple of months ago, I gave in to impulse and bought myself some Faber Kastell soft pastels. But, as it often happens with impulse buys, I never used them and felt horribly guilty about having made a useless purchase. So when I read that Mixed Media Monday’s next challenge was Child’s Play, I knew [...]

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Technique of the week: easiest spring background ever

March 12, 2009 – 2:09 pm

It is almost embarrassing to write a tutorial on this because it’s so easy, but just in case someone hasn’t thought of doing it before, here goes. The prettiest way to come up with a background in fresh spring colours is to use watercolours because they have such a transparent quality that immediately evokes the [...]

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