Michelle Schratz – the creative soul behind @RaspberryBlueSky

Letting it flow without having to be perfect, just boundlessly creative. This is art journaling… mixed media in a book. My passion. Often playful. Never boring. Always unique. For me, art and especially my creativity are essential in life. Art journaling allows me to dive into my own world with all my senses. That’s precisely…

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Hahnemühle the "Brand of the Century"

Hahnemühle FineArt GmbH is delighted to announce another prestigious award: ‘Brand of the Century’ as documented by the ‘Markenpreis der Deutschen Standards’ (Brand Award of the German Standards) together with inclusion as a member of the ‘Brands of the Century’ compendium. The latest edition of the book published every third year by Dr Florian Langenscheidt…

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Perfect on Hahnemühle paper: Painted originals and their digital reproductions

Karin Kuthe reports in the following article about her experiences with digital reproductions of her traditionally painted pictures. The highly experienced artist works in the techniques of watercolour, acrylic and pastel on traditional artist papers from Hahnemühle. For a few years she has reproduced her originals on Hahnemühle Digital FineArt papers as inkjet prints. She…

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Coffeelings AmarAmor – Coffee-art on Hahnemühle Watercolour postcards

Coffee on cards – art with the brown caffeinated beverage by Janaina Santos on Hahnemühle Watercolour postacards. We have found the artist from Brazil and her cute painted love stories “Coffeelings AmarAmor” on Instagram hashtagged #Hahnemuehle. Now we are pleased to present a guest article by her.

Urban Sketchers Chicago – Chicago Sketch Seminar 2015

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…

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Countdown for the Hahnemühle Calendar 2016

Up to and including 30th June, 2015, artists – no matter if amateur or professional – still can submit contributions to next year’s Hahnemühle Calendar. “We are arranging this competition for the ninth time, this year,” Bettina Scheerbarth, responsible for the company’s public relations, delightedly said. “In the beginning, we focused on watercolour paintings and…

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Luminous Japanese Cartoons thanks to silk ink

Guest Post by Martina Peters “I paint and draw since I’ve been able to hold a pen – very cliché. I was never very good at expressing myself in words so I choosed the graphical way. I discovered Manga by watching the animated series Sailor Moon.

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