Jean-Pierre Houël

Window Shopping

Look at this beautiful palette from Jacksonart.com! I kind of... need it... not want it... I NEED it!

"This Ceramic Palette has a nice weighty feel and can be used with watercolour, inks and dyes. Because it is made from porcelain, it is easy to clean, will not stain and will keep your paints wet for longer than a plastic palette; providing a longer period for wet mixing and allowing you to avoid having to colour match to dry hues. Ceramic palettes are very sturdy and designed for years of consistent use.

This palette is 8.25” in diameter in total, with 6 wells of a deepness of 3”, along with a lid which sits on top; preventing dust getting into your paints and keeping them damp for longer."

https://www.jacksonsart.com/jacksons-ceramic-palette-8-25in-diameter-3in-deep-with-lid

GREECE - ancient art wasn't black&white

I love the colors. Although, I can't find his source for his information. I  have to search for it. It doesn't really matter though... I just want inspiration for my fantasy concept art.

Tracing the Colors of Ancient Sculpture

This is fascinating. The patterns are beautiful and makes me somehow nostalgic for the video games I love, like Chrono Cross. Very inspiring.

Daler & Rowney FW Acrylic Ink

Acrylic ink is like a mix of watercolor and water resistant ink. I really like the FW line because they are quite matte and opaque. I dislike shiny finishes because they can't take more layers of watercolor or colored pencils. I am a mixed media artist so I like all of my mediums to work together.

I use Winsor&Newtons Indian Ink because I thought it looked the most black out of all the indian inks, but other than that I use the FW line.

I own raw sienna, flesh tint, scarlet, antelope brown and white. I have mixed my own sepia with white, antelope brown and black and use that A LOT. I am going to buy the real sepia of the line and the other dark colors look very appealing, as the cause of me using acrylic inks in the first place is that they are more opaque and water resistant, which is great for really dark shadows.

The color chart

As I said, I like to use inks with watercolor, but watercolor is my main medium. Here's a tree I made with my own sepia mix and indian ink. The rest of the colors are watercolors and dry aquarelle pencils (Museum line) from Caran D'ache.

Here is another forest. The only ink I used was indian ink.

And lastly, this is a crow demon, made with indian ink as a base.

Thanks to Inktober, I realized how incredibly useful acrylic ink is for my type of painting. I am really glad I tried it. It is important to try new things and get out of your comfort zone. I know it sounds so cliché but it is true, especially when it comes to art. I find it very boring painting the same thing and in the same way for a longer period of time.

Joachim Patinir

Making of a Renaissance Palette

These are the colors (all from Daniel Smith) which I decided would make a good Renaissance palette. I researched for about an hour on the internet for the different pigments they used to make colors from, and also swatched from my Daniel Smith dot chart. These are the colors, based upon my own taste also, of course. I have some of them already, which is great because this would be too expensive to just buy on a whim.

(From left to right, downward)

Lemon Yellow, Organic Vermillion, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Terre Verte, Verditer Blue, Indian Yellow, Transparent Yellow Oxide, Raw Umber, Transparent Red Oxide, Chinese White, Lamp Black.