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What’s the ‘gsm’ or ‘g/m²’ paper weight mean?
What's the 'gsm' or 'g/m²' paper weight mean? Here's a short post to explain what the different 'gsm' or 'g/m²' paperweights mean. In particular how they affect 'art' paper. Paper weights are measured in 'gsm', 'g/m²', or 'lbs' (Pounds). Some pads of paper just have...
‘ Spring Garden’ – Oil Painting Demo
This oil painting was for a demonstration for Exmouth Art Group & Sidmouth Art Society. It is of an arched gateway leading into a 'Spring Garden'. Here's a list of the materials I used: Brushes: 30 x 40 cm canvas board, Flat Hog Bristle Size 2 & 5, Round oil brushes 1...
‘Walking & sketching on Woodbury Common’
Woodbury Common East Devon's Woodbury Common is a great place for walking and sketching. It is an AONB and SSSI. Although the area is commonly known as Woodbury Common, it is an area of Pebblebed Heaths, made up of Woodbury Common, Bicton Common, East Budleigh Common,...
‘Sketching in pen & watercolour ‘On the Beach’
Visit's to the Beach Sketching people in pen, but mostly watercolour on the Exmouth & Budleigh Salterton beaches. These sketches are of my family members on the beach. We head down to the beach in all weathers and at all times of the year. Materials Used All of these...
‘Sketching around Dartmoor’
Dartmoor Sketching around the wild, magnificent and romantic Dartmoor. It offers a wealth of subjects and habitats to sketch. With its high, windswept moorland, fast-running rivers, woodland and the granite tors, raising majestically from the landscape. The Granit was...
‘Sketching around Cornwall’
Cornwall Sketching in Cornwall is some that I have always done. We moved to West Cornwall when I was four years old. So it very much feels like my home. I was introduced to sketching 'en plein air' in Cornwall with some Art homework set by my teacher Mr Bibby. How I...
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Hello and welcome to my Sketching Blog! My name is Nick Watton and I’m passionate about art, painting, drawing and sketching.
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