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Making paper at St Cuthberts Paper Mill
See how watercolour paper is made at the St Cuthberts Paper Mill. They make Bockingford and Waterford.Tags:Â video
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1929 and 1927 at Liang Seah St
Ecridor Retro fountain pen, Noodler's Polar Black ink, Waterford 300 GSM CP watercolour paper, Kremer Pigments watercolour paintThe colours used for this piece are Permanent Yellow medium, Irgazine®...
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Review: Saunders Waterford Watercolour Paper (300GSM Coldpress)
St Cuthberts Mill is located in the southwest of England, and they have been making paper since the 1700s. Saunders Waterford is one of the watercolour paper they make.The pad that I have is gummed...
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Review: Palladium-coated Ecridor Retro fountain pen - Caran d'Ache
Caran d'Ache is a Swiss manufacturer of art and luxury writing instruments. It was founded in Geneva in 1924 when Arnold Schweitzer purchased the Ecridor Pencil Factory. Schweitzer named his new...
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Review: Da Vinci Series 1523 Russian Red Sable Travel Watercolor Brush
This is the Da Vinci Series 1523 Russian red sable travel watercolour brush. Latest addition to my watercolour brush collection.You might remember that I've also reviewed the very similar Da Vinci...
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Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition is out!
This is an extra large edition measuring 7 by 10.5 inches and comes with 15 colour...
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Winner for Art Book Review Contest #51
Winner for April's contest is desertrabbit who reviewed Scary Girl by Nathan Jurevicius back in January 2012. Yes, all past reviews are eligible to win into the future. Here are the recent reviews by...
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Review: This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
This review is written by James Tan.This One Summer is the second graphic novel by the same team behind the critically acclaimed Skim— cousins Mariko (author) and Jillian Tamaki (illustrator). The book...
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Book Review: Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
This review is written by James Tan.Skim, published by Groundwood Books, is the debut graphic novel written by cousins Mariko (author) and Jillian Tamaki (illustrator). The setting is in an all-girls...
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Review: The Practical Handbook of Color for Artists
This is a large 240 page paperback. It's quite an enjoyable and informative book that covers many different topics on colours. And it has both theory and tutorials, and lots of nice pictures.Each...
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NoQ Store 20% off School Holiday Sale June 2014
NoQ Store will be having a 3-DAY ONLY 20% School Holiday Sale on all 14 million of our books from 4 Jun 2014 Wednesday 8 am - Friday midnight.The 20% School Holiday Sale discount code is: MIDYEAR20
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Review: ROTRING ART PEN vs CARBON DESK PEN vs PLATINUM KDP-3000AN/DP-1000AN...
I got these 3 fountain pens recently and this is my review on how they function as pens for drawing. You will notice that all these pens have long tapered ends. This seems to be a common design among...
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Review: Colour in the Making: From Old Wisdom to New Brilliance
Colour in the Making talks the history of colours as they are used in the past for artworks, and to their modern day usage in photography and print. The writeup is slightly academic but never boring,...
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Seen at APD Singapore warehouse sale (30 May - 28 June 2014)
I went to APD Singapore's warehouse sales yesterday. There aren't a lot of graphic design and art books, but there are a lot of other books at great prices, all under $10. Here are some photos. Note...
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Upcoming: UDON's Art of Capcom: Complete Edition
UDON has just announced the latest Capcom art compilation that's coming out in October 2014, the UDON's Art of Capcom: Complete Edition. This hardcover artbook has over 600 pages, featuring more than...
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Book Review: Urban Sketching The Freedom Trail: Walking and Sketching...
Here's another self-published sketchbook by Mike Daikubara. I had also reviewed his earlier book Hotel Sketch Mike Sketch back in 2013. This one's a paperback with only 74 pages. It's about A5 size...
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Book Review: Horus Heresy: Visions of Heresy
This book should thrill Warhammer 40,000 fans. Collected in this single volume are all the four artbooks from the Visions series, namely Visions Of War, Visions Of Darkness, Visions Of Treachery and...
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My Awesome Cafe (7 Jun 2014)
I'm still trying out Kremer Pigments watercolours. I'm not sure if I like it or dislike it.Kremer Pigments, Saunders Waterford 300GSM, Faber Castell Pearwood AmbitionMy Awesome Cafe is a pretty nice...
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Art Tools of Gabby Malpas
Our interviewee today is artist Gabby Malpas. She's from New Zealand, a long time resident of UK and now staying in Sydney. She was trained as a potter in New Zealand, but has since moved to using...
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