Day: January 9, 2019

Still Wednesday. Derwent inktense watercolor travel paints

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Derwent Inktense Watercolor Travel Set  (12 colors, $24.49 on Amazon) This journal entry is the only thing I have painted with this set, so I can’t say yet what I really think of it. But the paints/inks are thick and bright, and rewet easily, and the palette box is really nice. It comes with a waterbrush and a sponge… but I’m finding I really prefer a real honest-to-goodness brush over a water brush. So far anyway. (Isn’t that teensy little travel brush cute??? It’s a Da Vinci mini travel brush, size 4, (link) though it seems smaller than a four to me. It is a lovely size for fitting into a travel palette but has no cover, which is sad. I don’t want to point to get messed up!) I did use the included water brush as well, and found I had a little better control with it than with the brush I used yesterday.

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Wednesday 1/9/19 urban sketching

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One of my resolutions this year is to try to get out of my house weekly to draw or paint. I thought the abandoned Toys R Us would be interesting… once so full of fun, now so lonely. The trash cans are overflowing, the cover of the “o” has fallen out of the sign, etc.

I brought as little as I possibly could today… including my new etchr slate mini bag, and the little tin I decorated last week, filled with only six handmade watercolors (from EEM (Eventually, Everything Mixes) and Dr Oto Kano), a pencil, and a water brush and blotter.

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I attached the paint tin to my journal with a magnetic clip (thanks for the tip, Mandy!)

I loved the paints. I used a water brush, which is new to me, and had trouble with it. Super convenient, yes, but I had so much trouble doing… well, doing pretty much everything with it! I meant to fix it up a bit when I got home and then just decided to leave it. I’d forgotten my pen today, too, trying to really keep my supplies to a minimum.

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Some perspective errors (my weakness!!!), some color errors, whatever else…  It’s good enough. I’ll get better!! 🙂 And I did enjoy myself!

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Tuesday Jan 8th, 2019… Inktense blocks

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I did not get a picture of my pork tacos tonight at the Colley Cantina, and why-oh-why not??? They were SOOOOO good. I guess I just ate them too quickly. Next time!!! I gotta start thinking more “draw-your-day-ish”!

I spent some time tonight trying to find out if inktense products are lightfast or not. Older blogs and discussions suggest they were not at that time, but newer ones say they have good to excellent lightfast ratings.  I’m going with what they say for now, but if any of you have other information, please link it!

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Click here to see the Inktense block lightfast chart. I tried to save a copy to post here but couldn’t figure out how. I thought it was the Derwent site, but it isn’t, so I don’t know how accurate it is.