Recipes from Avery’s first birthday party

Soup Vegan Potato Corn Chowder I used 1 sweet potato and 2 potatoes (totalling 950g) and added 1.5 teaspoons smoked paprika. Chocolate Cupcakes Chocolate Cupcakes I used all “Dutch-processed” cocoa. I settled on this recipe because I wanted one that just used cocoa powder and oil. Vanilla Flour Buttercream (or Ermine Buttercream) I added 1/3 … Read more

Watercolour palette choices

I made a custom watercolour palette for a friend using my tube paints. They requested transparent and non-granulating, so this is a little information about my choices (not all paints fit the request). I concentrated on single pigments but included a couple of convenience mixes. All of these should be lightfast. Paints with a * … Read more

Resources for getting started with watercolour painting

I became interested in watercolour painting back in 2018 – at first, it was just to make pretty backgrounds for greeting cards, but YouTube kept recommending beginner’s watercolour tutorials at me and I soon started considering making art with them. My first set of “watercolours” was a set of Viviva Colorsheets (actually dyes, not pigment-based … Read more

How to remove cheap watercolour paint glued into half pans

Recently I purchased the very cute Eraldo Explorer’s Watercolour Palette from Riot Art & Craft. It’s really cute, but I had no need for the paints that came with it as I have an ever-growing collection of tube watercolours. I bought it with the intention of replacing the paints with my own. Two problems with … Read more

Fixing fonts that display in the default font in Inkscape

The Problem Sometimes Inkscape will display a font in its own default font – for me this is a sans-serif of some kind – instead of the font you want. I encountered this recently with three of the otherwise very useful Machine Tools fonts, which are intended to be used as single line fonts. I … Read more