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Schmincke Horadam Gouache

by Faye O. on January 31, 2010

in Gouache, Reviews

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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Derivan Liquid Pencil

by Faye O. on November 8, 2009

in Color Charts, Graphite, Reviews, Sketches

I was perusing online at Blick Art Materials several weeks ago (what else to do on a lazy Sunday morning, hehe), and I saw they had a new product listed under the ink category. It’s called ‘Derivan Liquid Pencil’. The product piqued my curiosity. ‘Liquid Pencil’? Isn’t that an oxymoron in itself? I googled [...]

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One of my favorite online art supply stores, Artifolk, had a ‘buy 4 get 1 free’ offer on Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer watercolor pencils. After doing some calculations to try justifying why I should purchase them, I finally gave in (hehehe) and ordered 20 pencils, which means I received 5 pencils free. By the way, I [...]

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