Review Derwent Tinted Charcoal Pencils
Tinted charcoal is not a medium that you hear much about, but it is great for sketching. The palete of 24 pencils from Derwent has...
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Joana Carvalho
23 de mai. de 20211 min de leitura
Scratchboard illustrations
April and May have been some really busy months, so I missed my monthly sketches post unfortunately. I moved to a new apartment and have...
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Joana Carvalho
4 de abr. de 20211 min de leitura
Sketches March 2021
It hasn't been a great month to sketch, I haven't had much time between work and preparing to move to a new house. I still made an effort...
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Joana Carvalho
4 de abr. de 20212 min de leitura
Illustration Project - Tarot Cards
I have been feeling in a bit of slump lately regarding to drawing and painting. Work and life in general haven't allowed me to work on...
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Joana Carvalho
21 de mar. de 20214 min de leitura
5 Ways to built a sketching habit
(1) MAKE IT SIMPLE There is no point in wasting time setting up a still life for 30 mins if you only have 1 hour to draw/paint. Not to...
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Joana Carvalho
20 de mar. de 20211 min de leitura
"Morning Breeze" Collagraph
I have been playing around with collagraphs again, it's a printmaking technique I really want to explore more and I love the textural...
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Joana Carvalho
2 de mar. de 20211 min de leitura
Sketches February 2021
Lately I have been feeling like painting more with watercolors (or with watercolors and pen), so I have been focused on filling in my...
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Joana Carvalho
25 de jan. de 20212 min de leitura
2020 year in Drawings and Paintings
This year I did around 94 drawings/paintings - I am counting the ones I did for inktober (in my old seawhite sketchbook), in my Arteza...
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Joana Carvalho
17 de jan. de 20211 min de leitura
2020 year in Prints
2020 was a good year for printing. A bad year in a lot of ways, but for printing it was actually quite good, since I had to spend so much...
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Joana Carvalho
17 de jan. de 20211 min de leitura
Sketches December 2020/January 2021
It's been a year since I started this small project - of posting my sketches monthly. I am glad that I've been able to keep this up for a...
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Joana Carvalho
6 de dez. de 20202 min de leitura
New Drypoint & Collagraph
Now that inktober is over I am in the process of adapting quite a few of the drawings I did in to prints. I want to try out different...
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Joana Carvalho
29 de nov. de 20201 min de leitura
Sketches November
I have been doing sketches on different sketchbooks (mainly on my Daler&Rowney mixed media sketchbook and my Arteza square watercolor...
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Joana Carvalho
29 de nov. de 20201 min de leitura
Mausritter Mondays Illustrations
My husband asked me to make some illustrations to participate in the event Mausritter Mondays. This small event was organized by the...
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Joana Carvalho
23 de nov. de 20201 min de leitura
Viscosity Prints - Collagraphs
I have been reading the book by Suzie Mackenzie ("Making collagraph prints") and it has given me some new ideas to try with my...
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Joana Carvalho
8 de nov. de 20202 min de leitura
New supplies & Trying out new things
During these last two months I have ordered a few new supplies that I have been curious to try out. The first one was a fountain pen. I...
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Joana Carvalho
1 de nov. de 20202 min de leitura
Inktober (Sketches September & October)
I kind of skipped the month of September in terms of sketching, since I was preparing to participate in Inktober for the first time. I...
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Joana Carvalho
18 de out. de 20201 min de leitura
Moon horse print
I have been procrastinating making new prints, with inktober and all. But this weekend I got around to making this little horse print, a...
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Joana Carvalho
11 de out. de 20201 min de leitura
New printmaking projects
Had to take a bigger break due to school and work, but now I am excited to come back to printmaking projects that stayed in stand-by...
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Joana Carvalho
23 de ago. de 20201 min de leitura
Sketches August
I finished my Arteza sketchbook this month, quite happy about how it behave, it's a little sturdy sketchbook with good quality paper. I...
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Joana Carvalho
27 de jul. de 20201 min de leitura
Sketches July
It has been a slower month for sketches, with work/school and then vacation taking most of my time. I still did manage to make seven...
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