Tag Archives: review

Tools: Fineline Masking Fluid

Posted on May 29, 2020 by dkatiepowellart

A few years ago Tracey Fletcher King turned me onto Fineline Masking Fluid. I tried others and found them sticky and thick and messy; not what I wanted in the ways I wanted to use a masking fluid. Fineline’s masking … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, class, creativity, journal, painting, process, review, sketchbook, tools, watercolor, writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

WWM: Giveaway! Cold Press Hahnemühle PostCards

Posted on July 24, 2018 by dkatiepowellart

Giving away to two lucky winners my favorite middle-of-the-night watercolor surfaces! Cold Press Hahnemühle PostCards! In honor of the paper I use most often for the World Watercolor Month challenge, I’m offering TWO prizes of postcard tins! (Sorry, USA + … Continue reading →

Posted in cards, creativity, drawing, ink painting, painting, pen & ink, review, tools, watercolor | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 222 Comments

Tools: New Cold Press Hahnemühle Post Cards

Posted on June 6, 2018 by dkatiepowellart

Loving Hahnemühle Post Cards as I do, I am thrilled to have the cold pressed option! Fabulous!  Perfect!  I am in love!! When I started with the first batch of post cards, highly textural, I loved the size/shape but struggled … Continue reading →

Posted in cards, creativity, drawing, ink painting, painting, pen & ink, review, tools, watercolor | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

Tools: Review: Hahnemühle D and S Sketchbook

Posted on May 26, 2018 by dkatiepowellart

What is it about a new journal? I love the blank page — not one of those peeps who hates them. The Hahnemühle D & S Sketchbook (Draft and Sketch) is a new journal for me. I wanted to try … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, drawing, ink painting, journal, painting, paper, pen & ink, process, review, sketchbook, tools, watercolor, writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Tools: My First Schminke Palette

Posted on January 10, 2018 by dkatiepowellart

Getting new paints, for an artist, is like being 5-years-old on Christmas morning. It is THAT exciting. You unwrap the paints, ooh and aah, play with each one, and discover everything you can do with each color! My disappointment in … Continue reading →

Posted in color, review, watercolor | Tagged , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Tools: Viviva Colorsheets and Hello Inktober

Posted on October 1, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

Viviva is a new watercolor “sheet” out of India. I bought them through their Indiegogo campaign. Watercolor sheets are meant to travel with a waterbrush, so that you simply touch the wet brush to the colored paper and the color … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, journal, painting, review, sketchbook, tools, watercolor | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

Tools: Brush Pens

Posted on December 4, 2016 by dkatiepowellart

I don’t sketch with brush pens often, because I like a juicy wash and/or pen and ink — BUT I do occasionally, and so, here is my take on them. They are great on the go for quick sketches, thinking … Continue reading →

Posted in color, drawing, ink painting, painting, review, tools, waterbrush | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Tools: Hand•Book Journal Trav•e•logue series Review

Posted on November 20, 2016 by dkatiepowellart

Sketchers whose work I admire love the Hand•Book Journal Trav•e•logue series… A few hate it.  I’m many pages in as I took it on our trip to So Cal, So think I can safely review it now… Okay, how can … Continue reading →

Posted in paper, review, sketchbook, tools | Tagged , , , | 13 Comments

Tools: Favorite Fountain Pens

Posted on September 25, 2016 by dkatiepowellart

NOTE: UPDATED 1/2018!With Inktober arriving in a week, pens are an appropriate tool to review! (BTW, yes I am doing the challenge — I love it — but I don’t use the prompts.  I just draw every day in ink!) … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, creativity, pen & ink, tools | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 28 Comments

Tools: Travel Palettes (and a Review of Prima Watercolor Confections)

Posted on September 18, 2016 by dkatiepowellart

I’m happy with my travel case from Sennelier. I recently cleaned it and changed out two colors. There is one little thing: It doesn’t fit into my small purse. I know, artists are always fussing, right?  But it is about … Continue reading →

Posted in color, painting, process, review, sketchbook, tools, watercolor | Tagged , , , , , | 20 Comments

Tools: Pentalic Aqua Journal Failure

Posted on August 25, 2016 by dkatiepowellart

Update, before you read: Out of the blue Pentalic responded to a letter from ages ago.  They worked on the books and felt the problem was solved. They comped me two books. I told them they should’ve said that they … Continue reading →

Posted in review, tools | Tagged , | 13 Comments

Kursuwa Stad Aluminum Pencil Caps

Posted on July 1, 2015 by dkatiepowellart

Life was not civilized before the Kursuwa Stad Aluminum Pencil Caps came into my life.  No more broken tips on my pencils in my purse. No more graphite coming off my soft leads. HOW COOL IS THAT? I bought mine … Continue reading →

Posted in graphite, review | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments