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So … I’ve been playing with my new gouache paints lately. As I’ve written in my first Schmincke gouache blog entry, I bought eight single pigment paints (a warm and cool version of each primary, and two secondaries):
Lemon Yellow (PY3)
Indian Yellow (PY153)
Vermillion Tone (PR255)
Purple Magenta (PR122)
Quinacridone Violet (PV19)
Ultramarine Deep (PB29)
Helio Blue (PB15:3)
Helio Green Bluish (PG7)
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If there’s one thing I really hate to draw and paint … it’s landscapes. I feel like I can go crazy if I were to draw an outdoor scene. Whenever I look at a photo of a scenery, my brain goes into overload. My eyes cannot handle the various textures and details. I have yet [...]
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Eversince I saw some sketches done in gouache, I had wanted to try working with this medium. During one of those crazy Dick Blick internet offers, I bought a starter set of Holbein Artists’ Gouache. When it arrived in the mail, I began squeezing them into half-pans that I had setup in a metal palette [...]
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Wow, it’s been two months since I’ve updated this blog. I’ve been SUPER busy. Taking care of an infant is hard work!
Anyway, at the start of the new year, I’ve made several art resolutions in order to keep myself prolific. Here they are:
Paint at least once a week.
Draw at least twice a week.
Play with color [...]
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I love 888 Black Tea Dust by Thong Guan. I used to make teh tarik with the run-of-the-mill tea bags, and I had to use three bags per mug to make the tea look dark enough after I mix in the condensed milk. After I moved to Sarawak, I was introduced to ‘Teh C’, which [...]
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After a long hiatus, I am getting reacquainted with my long lost passion: visual arts. This blog chronicles my journey.
I am located in Borneo, Malaysia.