Year: 2017

The redditgetsdrawn piece I did of Ralph the beagle found its way to his owner Ramon! Turns out the owner lives not too far from me, in Amsterdam, what are the odds!

I saw a photo of Joseph Zbukvic doing some plein air urban sketching using the Winsor & Newton fieldbox. It looked pretty practical with integrated water container, so I just ordered one from amazon.de with the Cotman watercolors, a lot cheaper there than in the Netherlands.

For pics and other portable palettes read this nice review by Daniel Novotny: https://www.ateliernovotny.com/2017/07/21/101-4-6-how-to-set-up-your-watercolor-palette-portable-palettes-paintboxes/.

Saatchi art decided to up their tax from 30% to 35%, whilst calling this a “slight increase”. For those of us who did math, this is a 16.6% revenue increase for Saatchi art.

In an important e-mail Saatchi art justifies it as follows: “Saatchi Art has not increased its prices since 2011”. Imagine your tax going up every 6 years. They are portraying a margin increase as a price increase. I can’t believe how dumb Saatchi art thinks their customer base is.

I’m getting with the times, and not too long ago created an instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/l1quidc0urage.