Author: Nicole

This was not meant to be a finished piece but I had fun making it and learned that I don’t particularly like using Arches cold press watercolor paper with colored pencil. For the record, I love Arches watercolor papers. ALL OF THEM. With watercolor. Also with Inktense and Graphitint. Not so much with colored pencil,…

Spoiler alert: Yes, you can do this but only on certain surfaces. It is possible to blend colored pencils with water. I’m not talking about pencils designed to be activated with water: watercolor pencils, Graphitint, Inktense, and the like. I mean regular old colored pencils. I saw an artist mention this in a YouTube video….

There, I said it all in the title. You can go now. For those who may require a bit more explanation, stick around. BTW, this post contains affiliate links. If you happen to purchase these items from Amazon, I’ll get a wee commission that will go toward maintaining this site. If you haven’t seen it…

Smart phone art hack for checking values If you hang out on social media art accounts long enough, you will see an artist tell you to check your values. That might as well be speaking in tongues to a beginning artist, so let me tell you what that means. Value is the lightness or darkness…

I wasn’t going to blog about this but a friend suggested that others might also benefit from this information so here we are. Now for the disclaimer I am not a doctor or any sort of medical professional. I am just telling you some of the things that I do to manage my asthma triggers…