#St Cuthberts Mills

[doodlewash]

REVIEW: Select Artiste™️ Watercolor Brushes from Princeton Artist Brush Co.

The Princeton Artist Brush Company carries a variety of brushes in many shapes, sizes and bristles. The Select Artiste is largest line, with  29 brush shapes, and enough sizes to for 108 brushes, all created to use with oil, acrylic and watercolor. About the Select Artiste Brushes The brushes comes in different types synthetic hair and short-handled brushes, in an attractive blue. Given the…

[dstudiouk]

Somerset Enhanced Velvet 330gsm

We've Added a Little Weight to an Old Classic

When we first started printing way back in 2003, Somerset Enhanced Velvet 255gsm was the first fine art paper we printed on, for nearly 20 years it has been consistently one of our most popular fine art papers. 

So if it's not broken, why change it? 

We believe that we can always improve and provide our artists and illustrators with something that's even better.

Somerset Enhanced Velvet 330gsm carries the same texture, the same surface colour and most importantly, the same print quality, but the increased weight gives the paper an increased sense of luxury. We’ve also found the added weight and thickness a real benefit for larger prints, providing them with added stability.

It's a very impressive paper and this update moves Somerset Enhanced Velvet from the lightest fine art paper we print on to the heaviest.

Changing to 330gsm has not changed Somerset Enhanced Velvet’s position in our pricing structure either, it will remain within our entry level Fine Art papers priced alongside Canson Infinity Rag Photographique 310gsm, so you'll benefit from the added weight and thickness at no extra cost.

[3gremlins]

"i can be your devil"

watercolors, 9x12"

a slightly more involved watercolor piece of raphael from bg3! this was fun to paint, so many warm tones to mix in. Def getting better at layering skin tones for lighting and expressions (i got lazy with the embroidery on his clothes tho).

a bit of a companion piece with a dame aylin one i did (even tho i don't believe they ever interact and aren't really offering equivalent deals or anything, i just liked the phrase and wanted to do paintings of them both lol)

using the st cuthberts mill saunders waterford paper for this, i think i might like it more than arches oO (this is the high white, cp(not) )

[mipilipiart]

Tighnari as a cute little cat. 😻 ✨ What do you think?

Paper: St Cuthberts Mill

Watercolors: Schmincke

Pencils: Faber-Castell

[gardenstyx]

Fallout Oc- Selene(as a child)

My fallout 4 Oc Selene(but as a kid)

I redid this piece because I wasn't vibing with the first one-Honestly I'm thrilled I did, it really captures her essence and kinda likeness!

Info/Lore dump-

She's a fallout oc I've had since early 2017?? like slightly after far harbour came out? No clue it's been so long- She basically like Little Red riding hood, but she trains wolves to fight/as companions. She was born in the town of farharbour and moved to the mainland for a little bit until she was 8 after her mother died in childbirth . Her father Pollock also started acting really suspicious(he's a synth)-They found sanctuary at Arcadia until she was 12. But after her father vanished into the fog she followed but got lost, then was adopted by an ex-trapper and her wolves.

Materials:

Ink: Schminke Acrylic Ink Watercolour: Sennelier, Winsor &Newton Paper: Bockingford st Cuthberts mill Digital Editor/Art App: Procreate

sorry for the tags i never know what to put!!

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Friday!

In 1974, Lewis and Dorothy Allen, long-time proprietors of the Allen Press in California, hand-printed this version of John Dryden’s 17th-century play All for Love, a tragedy in blank verse about the affair of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. It was printed on an 1846 Columbia handpress in an edition of 140 copies using handset Menhart Unciala for the text and Hadriano for display, and printed on damp rag paper specially handmade for the Allen Press at St. Cuthberts Mill, England. The edition includes a portrait of Cleopatra hand-painted in gold and seven colors on papyrus made by craftsmen at the Cairo workshop of Dr. Hassan Ragab. Each act opens with a cut of a drawing by Victor Seward hand-colored by Dorothy Allen, and the right-hand margins of every text page are decorated with Egyptian hieroglyphs and symbols in a sequence of four colors and black.

Our copy of is yet another donation from our friend Jerry Buff.

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[heikala]

Your art is beautiful! Your process videos are hypnotizing. Can I ask what type of paper you use? Do you ever have warping issues?

Hi! I use Saunders Waterford by St Cuthberts Mill, and I always stretch it before painting – you can find tutorials on how to do this on Youtube, but basically the idea is to wet the paper completely, tape and/or staple it down on a flat surface and let it dry before painting. This will prevent it from warping : )

[highlynerdy]

"This journal is the one place where I don’t have to hide anything, where I can be completely honest. I know I’ll never be able tell him – it would ruin our friendship. But I want there to be a record somewhere that I’ve fallen in love with him. It will be my deepest secret but at least I’ve acknowledged it."

Such A Good Friend by @tehfanglyfish​

My second fanARTifact was inspired by this brilliant story written by the incredible Fishie. See the first one here. Click below if you care to read more about the process. 

Okay, y’all, I started thinking about this project way back in May. (What is time in 2020 though??)

I began my research by reading everything I could find about medieval books, binding methods, paper availability, leather, other such whatnottery. You can read more about my research at the link above. I realized that I was going to have make quite a few changes to my initial plans, both because of my skill level, and my budget. 

Here’s my general research, thoughts, and decisions on this project:

The Arthurian era was generally thought to be set about the 6th century. Sadly, there are no surviving books from that time period (at least not from that part of the world) so it’s hard to know exactly what the style of books would have been. The oldest surviving book from anywhere near that time/place is St. Cuthbert’s Gospel from the early 8th century. It has a beautiful leather binding, which is still in tact, and has vellum pages, with Uncial calligraphy.

Owning books in this time period (500-1000) was pretty damn rare for a private citizen, as they were generally only made for the church and the super wealthy. Books were made from vellum or parchment, which was exceptionally expensive, because it’s made from animal skin. It took a longggg time to produce. Parchment and vellum still cost many dollars, and I am decidedly not a millionaire, or even a thousandaire, so I couldn’t afford to be historically accurate here. SO, paper it is! Now...how to be kinda sorta historically accurate from there??

I learned that paper finally made its way to the western world around the 1100s, with the first paper mill in Spain. In looking a little bit further, I found that Fabriano was founded in 1264 (in Italy), and hoo buddy, they are still making paper! In fact, I actually use Fabriano Artistico watercolor paper in my studio, but I never even realized it said the founding date right there on the cover! So. I ended up choosing their 90 lb cold press watercolor paper for the journal. I am first and foremost a painter, and that will be a perfect way for me to hopefully maybe possibly use this book. Five sheets of 22 x 30 paper which I hand tore down to a 7 x 14 measurement for the signatures, because I do very much love a square book. And the torn and deckled edges are sooooo dreamy. Boom! Ended up with 112 pages!

I sewed the book together using a beeswaxed linen thread, and kettle stitch. Instead of animal glue (yeah, wasn’t even gonna try to make that), I used a basic neutral PH, acid free PVA glue to secure the spine. This was my very first casebound book and holy bananas, it took four times of sewing and re-sewing the signatures before I was happy (enough) with it. 

I chose a much-thicker-than-I-should-have leather, because it was my first time using leather, and I really had no idea what I was doing. The leather was a seconds sort of situation, and as such it ended up being more in my price range. The thickness of the leather it ended up being fine to do as a wrap journal, but was far too thick to use to actually properly cover book board. And since I hate to waste anything like that, I ended up cutting the leather in such a way that I will be able to make two more (albeit much less fancy) journals, three teeny journals, and two key rings with it. Very minimal waste was important to me through this entire project, because $$$ AND because that's what people back then would have worried about too. Use all the things.

The quote that you see there at the back is my very favorite line in this very favorite fic. I love it so much, and it has very much stuck right on my heart since I first read it. I knew that it absolutely had to be in there. I did end up changing “Merlin” to “his” because I keep my sketchbooks visible in my studio and people often look through them. And I don’t really want to have to explain my fandom love to the "normies". The paper in the back was my last piece of one-of-a-kind handmade cotton rag paper, and I used walnut ink and my blue pumpkin calligraphy nib to do the script (I personally think Arthur would have very lovely penmanship). This part was wicked freaking stressful because I only had the one shot to do it all correctly. I’m not entirely satisfied with the spacing, but it’s a solid B+ at least. Passing grades, folks, that's what matters. 80% rule.

The wax seal is the Awen symbol. It apparently means a lot of things depending on who you ask, but my favorite was “love, wisdom, and truth”. Very Arthur, and very much this story. 

The cover and back are lined with 100% linen fabric which was dyed in earthy colors to coordinate with the leather color. And the end bands for the text block were made with a 15 year old piece of mustard yellow fabric I had been holding onto for something special. The leather was then conditioned three times to protect it and give it a more even coloring.

In closing (finally), BBC Merlin is ridiculously anachronistic, and has bits and pieces that could have it set anywhere from the 500s to the 1500s. I felt this gave me a bit more room to wiggle the “historical accuracy” to my needs because, dammit, THEY DID! So, I guess you could say this is maybe an AU version of the journal? Or you could say that since this was a gift from Gwen it was more basic than Arthur could afford himself?? Either way, I'm so, so pleased with it.

All in all, I learned a TON through this process, and I will absolutely try again to make a slightly more time period appropriate version in the future. Thank you, Fishie, for writing stories that I love so much they inspire me to make fan art that takes weeks or months to make, and help me learn so many new things along the way! Also, thank you, @peaceheather, for helping me find resources on medieval bookart, and for introducing me to other experts to talk to for advice and ideas!

Now to see how long it actually takes me to use this beautiful thing...

[art-now-uk]

Evermore, Joanne Hummel-Newell

Original painting collage set in a grey aluminium frame, varnished, unglazed and ready to hang. Evermore is from my Impulse Series, 2018 This current body of work is informed by the natural world and forces such as tidal, gravitational, seasonal and time (chronological). I walk most days along the coastline near my studio and document the changing horizon. I'm interested in how natural environments effect the psychology of human beings and the rituals we invent in order to interact with the natural world. The word impulse can be related to an intuitive action, and is also the word to describe an electrical current. My colours are a palette taken from the landscape where I work. It is a coastal seaside town with bright pastel buildings, beach huts and bleached wooden signs. About the materials..Paper is my primary canvas. I use a high quality watercolour paper from St Cuthbert's mill, which is situated in the ancient Cathedral City of Wells in the southwest of England. St Cuthbert’s Mill has been making paper since the 1700's using one of the few remaining cylinder mould machines left in the world."

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Collage-Evermore/80820/4250974/view

[scotianostra]

On March 4th 1756, the artist Sir Henry Raeburn was born in Edinburgh.

Raeburn lost his father, a mill owner, at an early age, was raised by an older brother, and educated at Heriot's Hospital. In 1772 he was apprenticed to the jeweller James Gilliland but began painting water-colour miniatures of his friends. He soon attracted the attention of the city's leading portraitist, David Martin. With guidance from Martin, Raeburn turned to painting in oil and began to develop his personal style. In 1778, he married a wealthy widow of independent means, whose dowry permitted him to devote himself entirely to painting. Through the marriage, he also acquired the Deanhaugh Estate in Stockbridge.

  He was later to purchase the neighbouring St. Bernard's estate and to amass a considerable fortune by feuing both for building the Stockbridge extension of Edinburgh's New Town. In 1784 he travelled to London where he met Sir Joshua Reynolds whose style was to exert a great influence upon him. On Reynolds's advice, he spent the following two years studying in Italy.

  Raeburn returned to Edinburgh in 1787, set up a studio in George Street, and rapidly established himself as the leading portraitist of Edinburgh society. He was to paint many of the most prominent Scots of the days, gradually developing from bust-sized figures to full length portraits. His reputation spread beyond Edinburgh and he became a member of the Royal Academy in 1815.

His most famous work is often said to be The Skating Minister, Robert Walker on Duddingston Loch, but I disagree, his painting of Sir Walter Scott is used so often surely it is more recognizable?  My own personal favourite is of the celebrated fiddle player Neil Gow.

I have however tried to mix it up a little from previous posts, the first pic is a self portrait, the next is Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry, often just called Glengarry, he adopted, or invented, depending on the source, the Glengarry hat, an early version of which he is wearing in the pic. And finally Alexander, a well liked teacher and Rector at the Royal High School in Edinburgh, his family were tenant farmers in Morayshire, and he walked 150 miles from there to Edinburgh, aged seventeen, to attend logic classes at the university. His pupils included Sir Walter Scott, the critic Lord Francis Jeffery, Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham, the latter two are very well known to Edinburgh folk like myself. 

In around 1805, fourteen former pupils commissioned Raeburn to paint Adam’s portrait, which they presented to the High School. When he died, his obituary referred to this portrait, stating that Raeburn had painted “an excellent likeness of the worthy rector, who is represented in the act of teaching his pupils”. I like this painting as he has a very genial face, the smile says it all.

Sir Henry Raeburn died in St Bernard's House, Stockbridge Edinburgh and is buried at St Cuthbert's graveyard at the West End of Princes Street Gardens, there is also a monument "next door" in St Johns.

[doodlewash]

REVIEW: St Cuthberts Mill Watercolor Paper

St Cuthberts Mill started making papers in the 1700’s, and today they offer three watercolor papers — Saunders Waterford®, Bockingford®, and Millford.  All are suitable for other mediums as well. All too often at stores, artists are given a choice of white cold press paper at 300 gsm/140 lb weight and that’s it. This is the most flexible of papers, capable of handling the widest range of…

[kimwhitby]

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[paintingbetweenbooks]

Protea cynaroides St Cuthberts Mill Saunders Waterford 100% cotton, hot press, 300 gsm Erynegium x zabelii Canson Mix Media Imagine 100% cellulose, satin finish, 200 gsm Arbutus unedo St Cuthberts Mill Bockingford 100% cellulose, hot press, 300 gsm

[mipilipiart]

Making of Tartaglia (Childe) - a short video of my painting process. If you're delving into watercolors, share your experience! What do you love/hate about this medium? Let me know in the comments!

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Materials:

Paper: St Cuthberts Mill

Watercolors: Schmincke + W&N

Pencils: Faber-Castell

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[gardenstyx]

Request I did for @crzy-devil

It's more vibrant in some places irl tbh- Idk what my scanner's issue is tbh. I don't accept requests usually but what's a one-off art request gonna do huh?

Watercolours: Winsor&Newton Inks: Schminke-Brown Brazil Paper: Bockingford St Cuthberts Mill DigitalProgram: Procreate