
-Clairefontaine Pastel mat (I swear by this paper)
-Pan pastels and a cheap makeup blender sponge works magic apparently.
-My new Derwent Chromaflow pencils. As strange as the circumstances of these are (breakage, quality standards Derwent??) I do love them. Try to get them on sale though because the lead breakage can sometimes be frustrating. A good sharpener helps but doesn’t solve the issue.
-The gold ink is Talens Ecoline gold. I often use Daler Rowney gold ink because it’s a warmer tone but in this case I did like the toned down gold from Talens. Hot tip: when your bottle cap is stuck (rip fingers) pour some hot water on the lid(not on the bottle) to open it up.


My favourite tools here:
-Talens ecoline inks
-Herbin inks (my recent addition)
-Faber Castell Pitt pens
-Derwent inktense paint pans (my normal watercolour one is a Cotman pocket box)
-My go to coloured pencils (see posts below)
-Papers are: Hahnemüle Bamboo mixed media, Hahnemüle Agaave paper, Canson XL watercolour sketchbook and Hahnemüle Harmony hot pressed sketchbook.
Yes I sold my soul to Hahnemüle haha.

-Finishing the lineart with Polychromos pencils (they sharpen so well)
-Adding depth with Pitt pens

Here’s a start of a painting, tools as following:
-Pilot color eno for sketching (erasable)
-mix of Staedtler Ergosoft and Bruynzeel Design pencils for lineart these are my go-to pencils for first drafts since they are cheaper than my finishing pencils(Faber Castell) so that’s a good way to save money. Hot tip: always buy the Bruynzeel pencils on sale because these are flawed pencils (breakage), just fyi 🙂
Why only for the first lineart? because pencil lineart melts away after watercolouring and you have to reline everything anyway :’)

2023 up
older pieces below






This drawing took me many hours and was for an exhibition.
The paper I used was a cotton hot press which is no longer produced (very sad). I’m trying various papers since but I shy from expensive paper unless the project is important haha.