New Art Supplies, Macaw Tutorial and House Painting (Patreon)

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a great weekend! 

Dom and I had a busy weekend. We managed to get one side of the house 'almost' painted. The photos here show the side of the house. We have to get up on the roof of the verandah next weekend...yikes. The roof is grey so we are going to paint the garage door a light grey colour along with the windows, doors, fascia and verandah posts. There's lots of work ahead of us. We have to replace external lights and I'd like a new front door too. It never ends.

I just got some new art supplies delivered. I bought some extra Aquabord panels because I want to do a tutorial for you on how to paint on them (I've got to practice first because it's been a while since I painted on one.) I also discovered these 'scrubber' brushes. One of their uses is to lift off paint from watercolour paintings.....who knew? I have an old bristle brush that I use to do that. It has fixed many of my mistakes in the past but it's looking a bit old and past it now so I was glad I found these. For my Aussie patrons I got them here if you're interested: https://www.thesydneyartstore.com.au/product-group/2622-silver-brush-silver-scrubber-sets/category/269-sets

There's also another link here for US patrons: jerrysartarama.com/silver-brush-silver-scrubbers   I've seen them on Amazon as well.

I finished painting the Macaw yesterday so I'll be working on the tutorial for you this week.  I hope to have it finished by the end of the week.

Have a fabulous week!

xx