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Today I discovered an economical 100% cotton paper source on Amazon. These are 9x12 blocks of 20 sheets for $16.99 by Fuumuui. I'm a devoted user of their brushes labeled as sable, so I think probably the paper may be good, too. I've ordered some to try out and will report back once I do that...

I decided to ask here if there's anyone here from Fairlight, East Sussex, UK or Battle UK but especially Fairlight. I had my DNA done awhile back. I never knew my father till I was 23 and he passed away when I was 25 but it turns out that his roots were so deep in the UK in Fairlight that they...

I've been anxiously following the news about the lost submersible Titan that's missing with only a little less than 11 hours of oxygen left. Is anyone else following that?

I tried the new Edge browser and when it malfunctioned I reset it. But not before trusting it with all my passwords. What a mistake! I couldn't get into anything! For at least 6 weeks, maybe more, I was shut out of my email, all my forums,----everything! Never again will I trust my browser...

I've discovered a paint called gansai that some people call Japanese watercolor. And some say it's like either gouache or watercolor. It's actually neither. I tried it and really became intrigued. It's actually a glue-based paint that's a little like laquer but it's water based like western...

I've been painting my Christmas cards as I've posted here before. There's an artist whose paintings I always admire and think to myself that I'll just never, never be that good so I've never tried any of his instructional type videos----till tonight. Now I think maybe there's actually hope for...

This is one of the watercolors I'm doing as Christmas card/gifts this year for my neighbors. I'm still having trouble mastering the splattering and I managed to "snow" on myself and my TV remote more than on the elk. LOL But all of this is watercolor except for the snow, which I did with...

This is one of the watercolors I'm doing as Christmas card/gifts this year for my neighbors. I'm still having trouble mastering the splattering and I managed to "snow" on myself and my TV remote more than on the elk. LOL But all of this is watercolor except for the snow, which I did with...

I painted this cougar from a reference photo that depicted the animal as being dark like this. The background is snow and I realize that somehow I got a bloom or something at the top of the painting. I didn't see it in time to correct it. I posted this picture on Wet Canvas and received 2...

I was watching YouTube yesterday and got a tip I was really glad to get. I have several tin travel palettes and they all had those inner flap things meant to be used for mixing bits of paint. I don't use them and they just get in my way, especially since I have a limited space to put my art...

I couldn't decide where to put this so I hope this area will do. Maybe it will be of interest to others who could do the same thing. I have a Roku tv and I like to watch YouTube videos where people put on a camera and then walk around various cities filming. There are some that are subtitled...

I was happily painting away a couple days ago, having just gotten back to painting after a year or so of covid-related "long haul" stuff when suddenly the Cedar Creek fire here in Oregon changed my plans. I live in the midst of the Willamette National Forest surrounded by almost two million...

I hope I did this right. I haven't done pictures here at Creative Spark before. This was done from a Youtube video by Paul Clark. I tend to be a realistic painter but I've been trying to learn to paint more "watercolor-ly" and loosely. I painted this as one of the cards I'll give my neighbors...

I think I posted this on Wet Canvas but I'm kind of proud of having managed to paint a white bear on white paper so I'll post it here, too. It's not perfect but I learned a lot in doing it.

This painting was one I did for my son's birthday. He had captured a picture of our resident cougar in his yard on his trail cam in the wee hours of Easter Sunday and then my youngest daughter found an osprey wing feather over by the creek. I used both to paint him this picture. A few...

Hello. My real name is Ellen E. from Wet Canvas. Grizabella is my usual online ID so I decided to use that here. I'll be 75 years old on November 26th and I find that kind of comical. There's an old woman living in my mirrors and DMV had the hutzpah to put an old lady's picture on my ID card...