“One hell of a sketchbook …” is calling Pedro Alves aka dk_limp our new watercolour book with accordion folding on instagram. The Portuguese architect and artist was one of the first to test the product of demand by many Urban Sketchers, Daily Painters or New Watercolor fans. The “ZigZag book” in fanfold style is the…
Hahnemühle´s Watercolour Postcards are real bestsellers and now also available with a matt paper surface. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the artist editions, the paper manufacturer launched cold pressed postcards in the limited metal boxes beside the rough postcards which already have collector status in their limited edition treasure box. Those who…
A red-bellied apple, two ripe pears, a bouquet of white marguerites – a colourful still life painting by Gerard Hendriks decorates the Hahnemühle box filled with 30 watercolour postcards. It is the 9th edition of the postcard box, which is launched annually in a limited edition. The small metal boxes with the changing cover motifs…
I have a thing with square little sketchbooks. There are always a couple of them in my drawer. It happened to me once that I needed a new one and they had run out of them in my usual art supplies shop and I had to buy non-square one. Ever since then, when I go…
written by Andrew Banks, Urban Sketchers Chicago group administrator and Blog Contributor As an offshoot of the global Urban Sketchers organization the Urban Sketchers Chicago held the second Chicago Sketch Seminar on 11 and 12 July, 2015 at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts and the surrounding Gold Coast neighborhood. This two day…
Since I can remember, I always liked drawing and painting and analysing my surrounding like a detective does. I always claim that drawing explained life to me. My first step with art began at school age, when I made had my first graffiti jobs. The next step to start a design study was therefore not…
“During my experience as linocutter I have searched and tried a lot of different types of paper. I can say that I have tried almost every type of paper, from card stock to hand-made and lots of watercolors papers, but in the end my choice was the Hahnemühle Quattro 170gsm natural white sketch paper in…
To match the current mega trend ‘Mobile Sketching’ Hahnemühle will present new fancy spiral bound sketch booklets at this years CreativeWorld from 25th to 28th of January 2014 in Frankfurt. The strong black covers have a striking red, blue or green coloured core with a corresponding coloured spiral and can be fully opened to provide…
We invited a globetrotting artist to join us at the Creativeworld: Pablo Ientile. “Pablo around the world’ was the project he worked on in 2011 by travelling around the world with our Hahnemühle Travel Journals creating sketches. He shows his fine, intricate studies of foreign countries and their inhabitants online at www.pabloientile.com. Within the framework…