Hi there, below is an alphabetical list of all subjects covered in this blog… please click on any word to jump to that page… Only the red ones are truly done but most are close to being published (promise!) Thanks for your patience… enjoy!

Acrylic:

• Acrylic Ink
• Acrylic Paint
• Acrylic Gessos and Grounds
• Acrylic Pastes, Gels, Mediums & Additives
• Acrylic Varnishes

Additives for Acrylic and Vinyl paint

Ball point / Biros

Bamboo pens

Binders, an introduction

Blending tools

Block Ink

Brushes

Calligraphy Ink

Calligraphy pens

Canvas, Linen etc. & stretchers

Carbon based drawing materials: an introduction + you can read here the 3 articles

Carbon based drawing materials: Carbon

Carbon based drawing materials: Charcoal

Carbon based drawing materials: Graphite

Chalk based drawing material: an introduction

Chalk based drawing material: Chalk pastels

Chalk based drawing material: Hard pastels and Conté crayons

Chalk based drawing material: Pastel pencils

Chalk based drawing material: Soft (and semi hard) pastels

Chalks

Chalk markers

Charcoal: willow, vine, compressed, powder, pencils, blocks…

Colour pencils

Colours A description of the most commonly found colours in paints (organised in categories: blues, greens, etc.)

Crayons: Conté

Crayons: wax

Dip pens

Drawing Accessories

• Blending tools
• Erasers
• Extenders
• Fixatives
• Masking tape/fluid
• Rulers etc.
• Sharpeners

II. DRAWING MATERIALS a) an introduction

Easels

Encaustic Paint

Encaustic Mediums

Erasers

Etching Ink

Families of pigments: the Cadmiums, the Earth, the Quinacridones, etc.

Felt pens

Fixatives

Fountain pens

Fountain pen Ink

Frescoes

Gel pens

Gels for Acrylic and Vinyl paint

Gessos and Grounds

• Gessos for Acrylic and Vinyl paint
• Gessos for Oil paint

Gouache

• Gouache Mediums
• Gouache Paint
• Gouache Varnishes

Graphite: pigment, powder, pencils, blocks, sticks, putties…

Grounds for Acrylic and Vinyl paint

Historical vs Modern Pigments

Historical pigments: Prehistory; Antiquity followed by the next 15 centuries

In bed with… (read about some of my visits to art material making companies)

• Jacques Blockx at the Blockx factory (Belgium)
• Jim Cobb from the Chroma factory (Sydney, Australia)
• the Coates dynasty (Stoke-St-Gregory, Somerset, England)
• The Daniel Smith factory (Seattle, U.S.A.)
• two generations of Escodas (Barcelona, Spain)
• 166 Golden owners (New Berlin, New York, U.S.A.)
• Art Guerra from Guerra Paint and Pigment Corp. (New York City, New York, U.S.A.)
• Houkodou a brush making company in Kumano, Japan
• The Kobaien sumi ink factory (Nara, Japan)
• David Coles (and Louise!) at Langridge Artists Colours (Melbourne, Australia)
• David Coles (in-depth interview) from Langridge Artists Colours (Melbourne, Australia)
• R & F, aka Richard Frumess (Kingston, New York, U.S.A.)
• Isabelle Roché & Margaret Zayer from La Maison du Pastel (Paris, France)
• Dominique Sennelier from Sennelier (Paris, France)
• Daniel Smith, aka John Cogley (Seattle, U.S.A.)

Ink: 1) an introduction

• Ink: Acrylic
• Ink for Block printing
  
• Ink Calligraphy
• Ink drawing materials Pens: Bamboo, Dip pen, Fountain pen, Ball point, Technical and Markers
• Ink for Etching
• Ink Fountain pen
• Ink: Shellac

Inorganic Pigments

Linen

Making your paint

Markers

Masking tape, masking fluid

Mediums

• Mediums for Acrylic and Vinyl paint
• Mediums for Encaustic
• Mediums for Gouache
• Mediums for Oil paint
• Mediums for Tempera paint
• Mediums for Watercolour

Modern pigments

Oil

• Oil Gessos & Grounds
• Oil Mediums
• Oil Paint
• Oil pastels
• Oil Sticks
• Oil Varnishes

Organic Pigments

III. PAINTS a) an introduction

IV. PAINTING MATERIALS a) an introduction

Palette knives and other ‘instruments’

Palettes

Papers

Pastes for Acrylic and Vinyl paint

Pastels

• Pastels: Chalk
  
• Pastels: Hard and Conté crayons
• Pastels: Oil
• Pastel pencils
• Pastels: Soft and semi hard

Pencils

• Pencils: Chalk
• Pencils: Colour pencils
• Pencils: Pastels
• Pencils: Graphite pencils
• Pencils: watercolour pencils

Pencil Extenders

Pencil Sharpeners

I. PIGMENTS a) an introduction + you can read here the whole 6 articles about pigments

• Pigment classifications
• Pigments vs Dyes
• Pigment Families: the Cadmiums, the Earth, the Quinacridones, etc.
• Historical vs Modern Pigments
• Historical pigments: Prehistory; Antiquity followed by the next 15 centuries
• Inorganic Pigments
• Modern Pigments
• Organic Pigments

Primers

Rulers, Protractors, etc.

Sharpeners

Shellac Ink

Sticks: oil / paint sticks

Sticks: watercolour

Stretchers and stretcher bars

V. SUPPORTS a) an introduction

• Supports: canvas, linen, stretcher bars, etc.
• Supports: papers
• Supports: walls
• Supports: wood panels and artifacts
• Supports (all others: glass, leather, tiles etc.)

Technical pens

Tempera

• Tempera Mediums
• Tempera Paint
• Tempera Varnishes

Varnishes

• Varnishes: for acrylic and vinyl paints
• Varnishes: for gouache
• Varnishes: for oil
• Varnishes: for tempera
• Varnishes: for watercolour

Vinyl Paint

Walls

Watercolour

• Watercolour Markers
• Watercolour Mediums
• Watercolour Paint
• Watercolour Pencils
  
• Watercolour Sticks
• Watercolour Varnishes

Wax based drawing materials: an introduction

Wax based drawing materials: Crayons

Wax based drawing materials: Coloured pencils

Wax based drawing materials: Oil pastels

Wax based drawing materials: Oil sticks

Wood panels (and artifacts)