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Ideas & Opinions

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Where did 2022 go? Basic Income for the Arts and other updates...
Ways to deal with making art you hate, drypoint version
Experimenting with art mediums
Is Tracing Cheating? (Spoiler: No)

 BOOKBINDING VIDEOS

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Bookbinding for Awesome: supporting the global vaccination effort
How to make book cloth
Make a book cover with a hard or soft spine
Make hard covers for your folded books
Get fancy with your accordion and pamphlet stitch books
Make a 3-hole or 5-hole pamphlet stitch sketchbook
Fold a snake book from one piece of paper
Make a paper book cover without glue or sewing
Make an easy origami book cover
Fold an accordion book from scrap paper

PRINTMAKING VIDEOS

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Making typewriter ink
Making the Taurus etching and letterpress print
Ready, Set, Make: printing from a cake board
Cutting the Cheese (board): making woodcuts from brie packaging
Preparing your paper for intaglio printing
Cleaning up your printmaking stuff
Setting an etching press to print intaglio or relief
How to degrease a metal plate for printmaking
I scream you scream we all scream for... printmaking!
Make a drypoint print from a recycled carton

PAINTING & DRAWING VIDEOS

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Painting & drawing in a tiny accordion book
Painting and talking: art experiences and kangaroo joeys
Oil painting on aluminium panels
Painting a guitar pedal enclosure
Making cardboard instruments
Why paint landscapes?
Turn your old cardboard into a painting panel
Painting Portuguese Tiles
Colour In Your Cheeks cover + speed oil painting
Mixing blacks in oil painting

Digital Art Videos

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Using paper texture brushes in Procreate

SKETCHBOOK VIDEOS

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Painting & drawing in a tiny accordion book
2018 Sketchbooks
Sketchbook Tour March 2018
Sketchbook Tour February 2018
Sketchbook Tour January 2018

DIY VIDEOS

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Making a custom ukulele | #DIYKitChallenge22
Making Ink From Shaggy Ink Cap Mushrooms
Studio tour: how I make art, music and videos in a small home studio
Filtering your paint water: how and why...
How to wrap a present with DIY wrapping paper
Giving new life to an old guitar
Build a garden bed bin shelter with two tools
Carve Alexander Hamilkin & Elizabeth Skuller pumpkins!
Build a dog bed with storage
Make a set of recycled spice jars