Quill brushes
Today I am trying the big brushes. I received the Raphaël as a Christmas gift. The two brushes by Silver Brush Limited I got for my birthday after seeing a fellow artist using the 240 Quill on Instagram. I knew I just had to have one. While shopping for that brush I found the white Goat Hair Quill brush and had to get that one too. The largest size it came in was the 180 but they were out of stock so opted for the 160. The size 3 quill from Rosemary and Company brushes I had purchased a while back but hadn’t used yet. Golden Taklon brushes are my…
Kneaded erasers
I have to say that the kneaded eraser is a must have for me. I don’t know about you but when I am sketching there is copious amounts of erasing involved. I hate all the eraser shavings. Enter the kneaded eraser. I absolutely love this thing. It erases beautifully and absolutely NO shavings. Once it starts to get dark you just knead in into itself and begin again. I purchased a 12 pack of these babies on Amazon. You will need a small container to store it in so it doesn’t dry out. I got a small paint container from Hobby Lobby to store mine in.
Pointed Oval wash -watercolor brushes
Today I am sharing with you one of my favorite watercolor brushes. At first glance one would think you could only use this as the name suggests….a wash brush. I was completely surprised when I found I could make flowers with it. I was hesitant to spend the money for the Silver Limited 3/4” pointed oval brush so my first purchase was the Princeton Neptune 3/4 pointed oval. Now this is a nice brush but as you can see from the picture of them together the Silver brush has a much more defined point. I found it much more versatile in creating thin lines and details on my flowers and…
Supply Saturday: Prismacolor Colored Pencils
Today’s post is about my favorite colored pencils. When I first began coloring in 2015 after finding the Praying in Color book by Sybil McBeth I used what I could afford. After doing research I really wanted to try out higher quality pencils. I had come across Prismacolor Colored Pencils. When I first found out about them in 2015 they were still a bit out of my price range. In July of 2017 after I published my first book(links to purchase are in the sidebar on the right) I found a set of 24 on Amazon for $14.95. Here is one of the pages in that book colored with those…
Supply Saturday-IPad Pro and Apple Pencil
This is the first in my Supply Saturday posts. I will be sharing with you some of my favorite supplies. From time to time I may also share the ones I didn’t particularly care for and why. For this first installment I was inspired by a comment on my June 24th blog A Little About My Process where Donna asked How do you get all the different thickness lines only having an iPad pen. In your second book the words have a patterns in them. How do you do that? The Apple Pencil is an amazing tool that works in tandem with the Procreate App. Here are a few pictures showing the…