How Jewellers Grow: Tools, Techniques & Truths from the Diploma Diaries (podcast episode)

Ever wondered what it’s really like to take a jewellery diploma? In this
episode, host Jessica Rose sits down with this year’s Jewellers Academy
Diploma Diarists – Tori Foster, Jane Taylor, and Emma René to talk about
their experiences studying, teaching, and creating jewellery as part of the
Jewellers Academy Diploma programs.

The Diploma Diaries is an Instagram initiative where selected students and
tutors share their year-long journeys with the wider jewellery-making
community.

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Artist Review of R&F Pigment Stick in Olive Yellow III

R&F Pigment Sticks are highly pigmented bars of oil colour, handcrafted in small batches with the purest traditional paintmaking ingredients. The stick format allows artists to paint directly onto the canvas without a brush, making them versatile, easy to transport, and perfect for expressive mark-making. In this article, Sheila Dodd shares her excitement about the portability and the vibrancy of colour of the R&F Pigment Stick in Olive Yellow III, and how this format of oil paint gives her the freedom to easily travel with her paints.     Artist Review of R&F Pigment Stick in Olive Yellow III by Sheila Dodd As a painter, excited to travel to the foothills of Mont Ventoux with an international group of plein air painters, one of my first thoughts was which oil painting materials would be safe and compact enough to capture the sunlit landscapes and still lifes in the markets of Provence. Just as important was making sure everything could fit safely into my cabin baggage, especially after having expensive pigments confiscated on previous trips through airport security! Jackson’s website stocks the relatively new (to me anyway) R&F Pigment Sticks. Olive Yellow III looked like sunshine in a stick! It has …

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