The journal sent to me was the 5″ x 7″, cold pressed 100% cotton paper, 300gsm/140lb spiral bound with 15 perforated sheets of paper for easy removal from the pad. Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour Paper is a luxury paper made from 100% cotton and is naturally acid-free and archival. It is cylinder mould made, and contains…
Winsor & Newton
New Winsor & Newton Supplies
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…
I ♥ Art Supplies
This week has turned out to be a banner week so far. In fact, it makes me think Friday and Saturday may be gold encrusted if my luck holds. The first thing that came down the pike was Sketchbook Skool contacted me and offered me a free course. YAY! I assume many others were also…
Ooh, Paint Porn!!
I know, don’t all we artist love, just LOVE seeing the palette of other painters. I absolutely love it when my fellow artists swatch their new paint or show their new tools. I don’t have new tools (I’m still coveting the Whiskey Painter’s Master Palette and have for AGES but that’s nothing new). I do…
Color Play
I started learning about the colors in my palette a couple of days ago by mixing a bunch of greens, here’s the post. When I finished Roz Stendahl’s class I realized as I perused her blog, reading all about color theory, brush pens etc., that in fact, I really should change out my student watercolors…
It Isn’t Easy Being Green
I’m starting to learn about the watercolor pigments in my Winsor & Newton travel palette. I’m mainly just using up the Cotman student colors that came in it because I’m really trying to learn about how the colors mix together and am not making precious pieces of art. Right now, all my art is contained in…