by Toni Watts | Feb 15, 2014 | Blog, Materials and Techniques
Silverpoint is a lovely medium to use, but it is difficult to achieve really dark darks. I have long suspected that the depth of tone that can be achieved has something to do with the ground used to prime the paper. Spurred on by a conversation with David Cranswick...
by Toni Watts | Feb 7, 2014 | Blog, Materials and Techniques
I had a fantastic week in London last week, extracting natural pigments from various plants and stones. These are the pigments that would have been used in the past, before our synthetic colours were discovered as by-products of the industrial revolution. The...
by Toni Watts | Dec 28, 2013 | Blog, Materials and Techniques
Carmine red pigment… At Christmas, rather than buying commercial Christmas crackers, we make our own. Each member of the family is charged with buying a gift for one of the others – an enjoyable challenge to find something ‘just right’...
