• Art stuff

    What is Paletteful Packs?

    Paletteful Packs are subscription boxes of art supplies shipped to you every month and containing various kinds of art supplies, including markers, brushes, paints, paper, canvas etc. Basically everything you’d need to create an artwork. They are also surprise boxes so you don’t know what you’ll get until it’s shipped (you receive an email with a link listing the contents with their brief descriptions – you can choose to click the link and spoil the surprise or not). You have 3 options of the Packs to choose from: Premier Paletteful Pack, Paletteful Petite Pack, Monthly Young Artist Paletteful Pack. Of course the Premier one is the full pack, the Petite one has less content than the Premier one and the Young Artist one has content curated specifically for children. Every Paletteful pack comes with several prompts for an artwork you can create with the supplies from the box if you…

  • Art supplies Reviews

    Paletteful Packs – March 2022 

    What is Paletteful Packs?ContentsPricesSuppliesPrompts Contents Cobra Water-Mixable Oil Paint: 3-Color Study Set, Ivory Black, Titanium White Art Alternatives Stretched Canvas 6″ x 6″ Art Alternatives Canvas Panel 6″ x 6″ or 5″ x 7″ and 8″ x 8″ or 8″ x 10″ Robert Simmons Sapphire Brushes: Filbert Brush, Fan Brush Art Alternatives Plastic Painting Knife Set  A sticker Prices I paid 35$ (around 145 PLN) for the pack plus 15$ for shipping (~62,5 PLN) and 40 PLN (around 10$) for customs fees. Altogether it was 60$/245,5 PLN. Let’s see what’s the actual cost of the items inside the package. Cobra Water-Mixable Oil Paint: 3-Color Study Set – MSRP: $7.99 / 33,97 PLN. This set as well as any 10ml Cobra paint isn’t available in Poland. The smallest ones I found are 20ml but they come in a set of 6 the lowest. That set’s price is around 74,20 PLN (on…

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    Paletteful Packs – February 2022

    What is Paletteful Packs?ContentsPricesSuppliesPrompts Contents Marabu Graphix Metallic and Pearlescent Aqua Inks (9 colors) Pentel Dual Metallic Brush Pen Princeton Artiste Select Brush Art Alternatives Pigment Liner Marabu Graphix Aqua Paper A cute sticker Prices I paid for the pack 35$ (around 145 PLN) plus 15$ for shipping (~62,5 PLN) and 40 PLN (around 10$) for customs fees. Altogether it was 60$/245,5 PLN. Let’s see what’s the actual cost of the items inside the package. Marabu Graphix Metallic and Pearlescent Aqua Inks (9 colors) MSRP: $29.61 / 126,17 PLN. The Metallic and Pearlescent Inks aren’t available in Poland (they’re probably too new product 🙂 ). A pack of non-metallic Marabu inks is available HERE on ArtEquipment. It’s a set of 6 inks that costs 43 PLN which would make 64,50 PLN / $15.14 for 9 pieces. The Metallic inks might be indeed more expensive though, so for the set I’ll assume…

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    Paletteful Packs – January 2022

    Wait, what? January 2021 box? But LW, it’s MARCH! Well, yes, I have a tiny delay 😀 There are 2 reasons for that. First of all, a lot was happening in my life throughout January, February and half of March so I was a bit too busy and a bit too stressed to focus on the blog. Another thing is – I got some suggestions to first create the art with the supplies and just then write about them so I already have my thoughts and opinions I can add to the post and that’s what I’ll try to do from now on. But since I couldn’t focus on more time-consuming art recently – the blog posts had to wait too. But, for the time being – I’m back, so let’s get to the point of the post! Contents Caran D’Ache Neocolor II Aquarelle Set of 10 All-Stabilo Water-Soluble Blue…

  • Work in Progress

    Acrylic painting: Pondering Fairy (process)

    Hello everyone, in today’s blog post I’d like to show you the process of creating my recent Pondering Fairy painting 🙂 First of all, it was made using November 2021 Paletteful Packs supplies – you can read more about them here. The tools I used: Standard Series Acrylics General Selection Set 6 × 20 ml POSCA Paint Marker, Extra-Fine Bullet – Violet Robert Simmons Sapphire Sable-Synthetic Blend Brush Art Alternatives Artist Palette Knife Crescent Canvas Textured Boards – 8″ x 10″ I started the process by looking for inspiration – I googled fairies and fairy aesthetics. I really wanted some iridescent and close to transparent looking wings, so googled those too. I noticed fairies often are surrounded by toadstools and I found some beautiful pictures of them that gave me an idea about the colours and general setting of the image. What was left to figure out was a pose for the fairy and…

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    Paletteful Packs – December 2021

    My December Pack has finally arrived! It took even longer than usually, but it’s most probably because of Christmas fever and a lot of work in all kinds of courier and postal services. I’m just happy I got it before Christmas 🙂 What is Paletteful Packs?ContentsPricesSuppliesPrompts Contents This time there isn’t many various supplies in the box, it’s mostly 9 markers altogether, 2 brands though. Copic Sketch markers x 5 Marabu Graphix Sketch Markers x 3 Alcohol Black Marker Winsor Newton Fineliners – Gray 0.1 Marabu Marker Pad (8.3″ X 11.7″) 100% Cellulose The cutest sticker yet  Prices I paid for the pack 35$ (around 145 PLN) plus 15$ for shipping (~62,5 PLN) and 40 PLN (around 10$) for customs fees. Altogether it was 60$/245,5 PLN. Let’s see what’s the actual cost of the items inside the package then. Copic Sketch markers x 5 – MSRP: $7.99 each / 32,61…

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    Paletteful Packs – November 2021

    When I’m writing this it’s already December and the December Paletteful Packs have been shipped, so I have to be relatively quick with the blog post. Fortunately shipping the Packs from USA to Poland takes about two weeks, so I don’t need to rush it too much 😀 What is Paletteful Packs?ContentsPricesSuppliesPrompts Contents At the moment the contents on the website list the December Pack’s contents but I copied them along with their stated prices so I can compare them to Polish prices if they’re available 🙂 Standard Series Acrylics General Selection Set 6 × 20 ml POSCA Paint Marker, Extra-Fine Bullet – Violet Winsor Newton Fineliners 0.5 fineliner in Cool Grey Robert Simmons Sapphire Sable-Synthetic Blend Brush Art Alternatives Artist Palette Knife Art Alternatives Stretched Canvas – 8″ x 10″ Crescent Canvas Textured Boards 3pk – 8″ x 10″ Paletteful Packs Pouch – Free Gift! Anniversary sticker Prices I…

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    Paletteful Packs – October 2021

    Wait, it’s almost December and you’re writing about the October pack? Well, yes. I ordered the pack in September, it needs around 2 weeks to arrive in Poland and it got stuck in Warsaw’s airport for a month… But, it finally arrived! But, first things first. What is Paletteful Packs? Contents Prices Supplies Prompts Contents Sadly, because the package I received was delayed I don’t have access to the original October Pack content listing, but of course I’m going to tell you what I found in the box 🙂 Tombow Dual Brush Blue Blendables set (6 pens) Tombow Blending Kit Winsor & Newton 0.1 Fineliner in Indigo Blue (x2) Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pens Strathmore Toned Blue Mixed Media paper pad (6×8 in., 15 sheets) White Sakura Gelly Roll 10 pen A cute blue sticker Prices I paid for the pack 35$ (around 145 PLN) plus 15$ for shipping (~62,5 PLN)…

  • Work in Progress

    Clay head model (Work in progress)

    If your friends don’t want to pose for you – make yourself a new friend 😉A while ago I decided I wanted to fix my chipped coffee mugs and after looking for the best option for patching them I decided that using air-dry clay would create the lowest risk of poisoning myself (and, if you’re curious, for sealing the clay on mugs I used Pentart Decoupage Varnish & Glue in silky shine variant). Surprising as it is, you can’t buy just 3 pinches of clay (afaik anyway), so I was left with the whole package of potentially cool stuff I could make out of it. It was then when I remembered that a long while ago I bought a wig/hat mannequin that was supposed to be a head and face reference for my drawings but I’ve never used it because… well, let’s say I’d prefer a slightly differently shaped face.…

  • Life/Announcements,  Work in Progress

    Long time no see

    Sooo… I’ve been artistically inactive lately. For a long time. There were multiple reasons for that but I think some of the reasons are slowly going away and therefore my inspiration is also slowly coming back. During my hiatus, I got myself a display tablet after years of dreaming about one and I’m impressed with how much easier life (as in: digital art) is now. It’s much more intuitive and less tiring than using a regular (non-display) graphic tablet since the brain doesn’t have to perform the circus trick that is processing drawing the thing in one place and seeing the result in the other.  I do recommend getting a display tablet to everyone who can and is considering it. It makes a huge difference. One of the things that helped me get inspired once again was my discovery of a very interesting website. What you do there is merge…