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
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
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
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