Elizabeth There were a few books I remembered reading as a child which for many years I could never find online, usually because some other book with a title that matched the concept I was looking for would take up most of the search results. Here are three books I have recently identified, much to my … Read more
This is a selection of colours I thought would be convenient for watercolour sketching on location in Western Australia. My goal was to provide plenty of colours that could be used straight out of the pan for common subjects (trees, buildings, the sky), while also having options to mix most other colours. Red Bright, primary … Read more
For Avery’s 2nd birthday, because “2” looks kind of like a duck, Alex insisted that we needed to have the Australian Women’s Weekly Rubber Duck cake, popularly known as “Duck Cake” due to the hilarious episode of Bluey about said cake. Out of a sense of obligation to the classic Birthday Cakes book I used … Read more
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
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