Enjoy a lively chat with professional illustrator Chris Rowland. Everything from favourite pencils to dealing with family life and clients as a freelance graphic artist.
Chris works mainly in pen and ink, beginning analogue then digitising. He also does purely digital artwork.
Art Supplies Mentioned:
Kuretake Fudegokochi Brush Pen
Kuretake Disposable Pocket Brush Pen, Extra Fine
Pentel mechanical pencil
Staedtler chunky pencil
Favourite pencil grade: F
Pentel pocket brush pen
Daler Rowney Graduate sketchbooks
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Chris Rowland’s partner Gosia Orlinska is an art therapist working with children. We have also interviewed Gosia for Art Supply Posse.
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Chris on Instagram
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Candace Milner creates “meditative doodles”. Colourful, repetitive patterns that anyone can create. Drawing them relaxes your mind because of their manual, repetitive nature. It’s not only relaxing. The result looks good too.
You can use any writing instrument, analogue or digital. Candace loves fountain pens and inks. Her patterns have previously been used on pen cases by Rickshaw Bags.
Art supplies mentioned:
Tomoe River paper FP (52 gsm) (particularly for fountain pens use, hence “FP”)
Platinum carbon black ink
Sakura poster powder
You can find Candace’s work on Instagram under @pensivecandy
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Learn about using alcohol-based inks on Yupo paper with Katy Smeets.
Katy uses inks to create abstract patterns. She uses these as textures for digital art, such as her animal series. No two patterns are the same.
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Art supplies mentioned by Katy
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Piñata alcohol inks by Jaquard
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Copic refill inks
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Yupo “paper”. Yupo is synthetic, non-porous paper invented in Japan. It’s basically plastic, consisting of polypropylene. It’s also made by paper manufacturers in other countries.
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Posca pens
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Victoria Lee Connors travels the world creating landscapes made of wool fiber.
Victoria’s landscapes look like paintings from a distance, but are all made from dyed wool. Looking at pictures on the internet we have to imagine the fibrous texture of wool.
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Victoria creates these landscapes out in the open, en plein air. She attaches pieces of fiber to a canvas, resting on an easel, just as a landscape painter does.
Victoria’s Website:
http://www.victoriaconnors.com/
A YouTube video which Victoria mentioned demonstrating fiber art
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Learn how to get paid as an artist in this Art Supply Posse chat with art business consultant Maria Brophy.
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Most of us are told you can’t earn money with art. This episode is a step towards debunking that myth. The movie and a video game industries are huge, and most of the people working on them have creative professions. But even when you know that you can earn money with art, that doesn’t make it easy.
Let’s face it, most artists are not good at selling their work. Maria specialises in teaching artists about the business of art so they can earn a living making art full time.
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Maria’s book Art, Money, Success
Maria’s website
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