This is my first Instructable, and my entry for the Instructables pocket-sized contest. It’s a Pocket-Sized Watercolor Box in an Altoids tin. I’ve seen people make similar ones and I’ve decided to make my own, using what I had: Fimo clay.
For once, instead of just linking to an Instructable, I wrote one. About time!
Please vote for me!
Altoids Tin Pocket-Sized Watercolor Box [link]
«So I’ve been doing a lot of story boarding recently and in an effort to sharpen up my drawing skills I’ve switched from using a pencil to a pen. The only problem has been it’s much harder to do even fills with a pen than a pencil, so I needed a fat marker, too. But I hate carrying around more junk than I need, and most of the art markers out there have two or more points (prismacolor, tria, copic) but none of them have a point fine enough to do real line work. What’s an art director to do? Hack a tria of course…»
Extra Fine Dual Point Tria Art Marker [link]
Egg tempera is a painting technique that’s been around for hundreds of years. Today, we mainly know two types of painting: acrylic and oil paintings. Acrylic paint is water-based. Oil paint is, well, oil based (hence the long drying time - oil takes more time to evaporate than water). Egg tempera is, like acrylic paint, water based, but the medium isn’t a synthetic chemical: it’s egg yolk! Egg yolk is actually an excellent medium for preserving pigment, and it dries clear (completely clear after a few weeks).
Egg tempera produces high quality results, as you can see with the portrait shown above. Durable too: that painting dates back to the XIV
Egg Tempera Painting [link] [another link]
