Last month I won three tubes of Artist quality Winsor & Newton watercolors, a Series 7 W&N brush and a spiral bound 5″ x 7″ sketchbook of 300gsm cold pressed watercolor paper. Really, I never win anything and since I won two gifts of paint in one month I’m taking it as a sign to…
Archives for August 2017
PRICE ALERT! Strathmore Softcover Sketchbook
Hi all, this just in, Strathmore Softcover Journals are on sale at Amazon! This is the 8″ x 5.5″ softcover portrait watercolor sketchbook. The paper is 300gsm/140lb and there’s 48 pages. All that for just $11.84, that’s 42% off. Obviously it takes watercolor but also anything else you could through at it, pen & ink,…
Van Gogh Watercolors
Doodlewash had a giveaway that I won in the World Watercolor Month celebration. My Van Gogh watercolor palette arrived a few days ago and I wanted to put the paint through it’s paces to see how it performs in relation to my normal Daniel Smith watercolors. The palette is plastic and has a removable mixing…
PRICE ALERT! Caran d’Ache Neocolor II
Have you ever used Caran d’Ache Classic Neocolor II Water-Soluble Pastels? They’re a very cool tool. They look like crayons but work like watercolors. Watercolors you can color with much like watercolor pencils but even easier to use. These can also be used as solid watercolors too. Just get a water brush and add water to…
PRICE ALERT!! Derwent Inktense Pencils
Sorry for putting out two price alerts in two days, I thought I’d only be doing these once in a while. But I guess it’s back to school time so art supplies are on extreme sale?? Who knows but YOU get to benefit! YAY! I’m sure most of you have heard of Derwent Inktense pencil…
PRICE ALERT!! Russian Red Sable Brushes
Ok, I was changing over all my “Products I use” on my sidebar and came across an amazing watercolor brush sale on Amazon. I thought I’d tell everybody! They are Da Vinci Russian Red Sable brushes which is the brand I use. You get five brushes, 0, 1, 2, 4 and 6. I don’t…
Just Buzzing Around
Hiya. I’m up to my eyeballs with work. I’m revamping my blog and adding the Amazon Affiliate Program to it. You’ll notice a few esthetic changes in the sidebar. Mostly you won’t notice anything different in my post as I’ve always added links to stuff. It’s just for the first time, I might benefit a tiny…
Home Made Watercolor Palettes
My Doodlewash Guest Artist post is up now! Go here to read all about my journey with watercolor. I’d love to hear your comments so please leave me a message and if you’d like to join the Doodlewash community go here and learn all about the new platform where you can get to know artist, post…
Do You Sleep In Your Earrings?
Ok, I’m gonna be doing something I don’t usually do. Well, I usually do it with art supplies, review them, that is. But today I’m telling you all about a company called Comfy Earrings. I came across them in the last few weeks and they were so great that I wanted to shout it from…
World Watercolor Month is Done
Unfortunately I didn’t get to participate as much as I’d like to have this year in #World Watercolor Month. But I’m happy to have gotten one last drawing in before it was over yesterday. I’ve been working on this page (i.e.. I sketched it out and promptly forgot about it) for a whole month. I…