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U Is For…

U is for…
Faber-Castell Ink Pens
U is for uranium yellow, ultramarine blue, and umber, either raw or burnt up. U is for underpaintings, undertones, and for those unfinished pieces hidden under the bed.
U is for painting under an umbrella to protect your pigments from ultraviolet light. U is for unleashing your Unison pastels on Uart paper.  […]

T Is For…

T is for…
Faber-Castell Ink Pens
T is for taboret. T is for tint, toners, and tube wringers. T is for torchons, tortillons, and the tooth of the paper. T is for transferring a drawing with tracing paper, and for thinners like turpentine, a toxic tool of the trade.
T is for turquoise. T is for titanium white, […]

S Is For…

S is for…
Ink Pens
S is for sepia. S is for sanguine, sienna, and sinopia, a natural red iron oxide. S is for Spanish black, saffron yellow, and sap green. S is for a spectrum of saturated colors, subdued into shades when in shadow. S is for secondary colors, split complements, and creating your own style.
S […]

R Is For…

R is for…
Ink
R is for red. R is for raw umber, raw sienna, and the roots used for rose madder. R is for rose lake, red ochre, and red oxides resembling rust. R is for royal smalt, often called blue frit, and for retiring realger due to it’s risk.
R is for retrospective, an exhibit […]

Q Is For…

Q is for…
Faber-Castell Ink Pens
Q is for quilt. Q is for quill, an early writing instrument made from a feather, and for Quink, an ink it can write with. Q is for the Quince Street painters of Philadelphia.
Q is for quinophthalone yellow, a lightfast synthetic organic pigment, and for quercitron, a yellow dye from the […]

P Is For…

P is for…
Faber-Castell Ink Pens
P is for purple. P is for peach black, Paris green, and Prussian blue. P is for perinone orange, permanent green, and pyrrole red. P is for pink, puce, and the popular phthalos. P is for the primaries: red, yellow and blue.
P is for portrait. P is for poppy oil, portable […]

O Is For…

O is for…
Ink, Watercolor
O is for orange. O is for ochre, orpiment, and olive green. O is for orient yellow, Orr’s white, and for ostrum, a brilliant purple. O is for the transparent oxides.
O is for offset printing, and open edition prints. O is for oil pastels, odorless turps, and Old Holland oils. O is […]

N Is For…

N is for …
Handbook Journal, Ink
N is for nib. N is for needlepoint, nippers, and newsprint. N is for Niji waterbrushes and Northlight books.
N is for Naturalism, Neoclassicisim, and Art Nouveau. N is for Netherlandish art, naive art, and narrative art that tells a story. N is for nocturns that are painted at night.
N is […]

M Is For…

M is for…
Ink, Colored Pencil
M is for mural. M is for maul, mallet, and mandala. M is for mannequin, model, and the modeling tools used by the sculptor. M is for mezzotint, monotype, and monoprint, a series of prints that differ in texture or color.
M is for mauve, madder lake, and magenta, a primary color […]

L Is For…

L is for…
Ink, Colored Pencil
L is for line. L is for lithography, linocut and limited edition prints. L is for limner, lettering, and laid paper. L is for layout, life drawing, and lost-wax casting.
L is for linseed oil, liner brush and spike oil of lavender. L is for capturing a likeness with lightfast pigments, and […]