This blog post starts different than usual. I’ve recorded me reading this blog post and made a video of it, because some people prefer to listen to instead of reading it. Maybe you’re one of them. From now on you can read as well as ...
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Summerly sunset and love story part 3 (with music video)
Summer time, always a time of happy cheer and fun. Well, not always… For the ladies in the coloring page on the left, that summerly sunset is the end of a lovely day, promising for the next day to be another great day. At least, ...
Read More »Speckled Egg, what took you so long?
Early May Tim Holtz and Ranger announced that they would release a new Distress color on May 20th 2020! For many of us crafters this was great news. With 60 colors already available, and no new colors in the last five years, this announcement was ...
Read More »Black Edition pencils, butterflies and our love story (part 2)
Two blog posts ago, at the end of that blog, I started to tell the story of my husband and me, which started way back in the early eighties. The story continues, but first… Before I continue our story, I first want to give you ...
Read More »Heartbreak high, review of ‘the unofficial colouring book’
Heartbreak High? Never heard of! About 2,5 weeks ago, I received my copy of the new Heartbreak High unofficial coloring book by Any Art Netty. It’s a coloring book dedicated to the characters of the Australian television series Heartbreak High. Let me start by saying ...
Read More »Push notifications, live streams and a sweet love story
Yessss, I’ve got a tool on my website for push notifications! I can almost hear you think ‘Huh? What? Why?’… Let me explain. When you’re a follower of my social media accounts, you might have noticed that I’ve changed my profile picture on all of ...
Read More »Country music on Singalong Sunday – Replay #12
singalongSummer break Due to the heat in Spain, we’ve had to cancel the last Singalong Sunday. It’s too hot in our house to do live streams during the summer, so we’ve announced a summer break. I will play live again on Sunday September 20th, but ...
Read More »Failing system on Singalong Sunday – Replay #11
Failing system On the latest Singalong Sunday things were looking much better, or more like ‘listening better’, than the week before that. So, loaded with optimism we made the preparations for last Sunday’s Singalong live session. To run into a totally failing system! Aaaaargh… what ...
Read More »New visuals for Singalong Sunday – Replay #10
New visuals My dear hubby has really been working his ass off last week. Totally focused on my Singalong Sunday he was programming, writing scripts, testing, failing, rewriting, testing again, and finally it paid off. And that was just for the visuals we wanted to ...
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Techniques
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How to… use Derwent Inktense pencils
In this Techniques blog, and video, I’ll show you how I work with Derwent Inktense pencils and how you can use them for layering and making shadows, to create more depth in your coloring work. But let me first give you a bit of information ...
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Making Artist Trading Coins the easy way
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How to… Blending with Prismacolor Premier pencils – Video
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How to… Work with Albrecht Dürer watercolor pencils
Reviews Materials
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Metallic pencils comparison: Derwent v. Marco Raffiné
For Christmas 2019 I received the new set of Derwent metallic pencils. It’s a limited edition, but if you look good enough, they’re still available online. There’s also the common set of twelve Derwent new metallic pencils. I say ‘new’, because previously there was a ...
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Pen 68 Brush by Stabilo… is it a GO or a NO?
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Infected with virus and 24 NEW Caran d’Ache Luminance colors
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Black Edition pencils, butterflies and our love story (part 2)
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Unprecedented comparison of different types of paper! Watch this and take advantage!