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Flutterby
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Marilyn-Wet on wet- You really have to use thick watercolourpaper, tube paint is slightly thicker, which i prefer, Wet the paper with a spongefor a large area say you were doing a small area check that a shine has then appeared and with a fully loaded brush with the paint not too thin ,then just put the tip of the brush into the wetness. The paint will float across on its own. Look at the tube and it will tell you about whether its granulated colour which are good for wet in wet, all tubes and pigments have their different ways of performance.Ultramarine is a good one for granulation, as an example. Keep your water clean , change after each colour you use.
Sue- Look out for these if you are in France- Louve Paints- I had some given to me they are in tubesand are excellent bright colours with good granulation . I have looked on e-bay but havent seen any here. . The ulramarine beats any ive used for granulation !
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belle
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Posted - 19/01/2007 : 09:05
Sounds interesting, have used a goose feather in ink to do life drawing with, and a great technique with slightly shiny card, is to coat in in a very diluted coat of oil paint, a darker shade is best, then use your fingers to take the highlights out, thus creating form. it is very sculptural for life drawing, and would probably work well for portraits too.
Like you flut, I use emulsion as my back ground "wash" for acrylics, i once saw Roif do a whole painting with emulsion, and as you can get almost any shade, in these DIY stores that match it for you, it could be a cheaper option if doing a large canvas or several pics with the same colours. The only gripe I sometimes have with Acrylics is they dry too fast, I know you can buy inhibitor, but I hate faffing about. Trying to persue Art in my tiny kitchen, surrounded by all the other jobs that are shrieking at me, means I have to strike whilst the iron is hot.... talking of hot irons, have you ever tried encaustic work...it's a great success for beginners, but if your like me and want more control over the outcome, it's a bit samey after a while.
Edited by - belle on 19 January 2007 09:07:43
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Posted - 19/01/2007 : 09:06
I have done a lot of sponging and speciality paint effects on walls using unusual things....such as hessian. scrunched up plastic bags, and even the tip of a screwdriver for a marbled look. Wide combs work in thickly applied paint also.
Stanley....I have read a couple of mystery /crime books where the villans buy up old books cheaply for their end pages. They are suitable for forging supposedly ancient documents as the age of paper can be tested. Ink can also be tested for age. Makes you think, doesn't it? But I know what you mean about the prettiness of some end pages in older books.
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ |
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Posted - 19/01/2007 : 09:18
Belle....explain encaustic please...
Does anyone remember those pictures we all did as kids with the big areas of heavy crayon laid down in the background and then the whole thing covered with black crayon and then you 'scratch' a picture into it? As the black is scratched, it reveals loads of lovely coloured areas coming through.
Messy though......
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ |
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Posted - 19/01/2007 : 10:01
Encaustic art is where you have shiny card and you heat a small travel irn that has had the base plate cleaned to remove all finishes.....then you drag different coloured blocks of wax acrros the plate, blue first for sky, green for fields etc. When you have the iron suitably loaded you turn it over and sweep it accross the card...it makes an oil painting effect. Best to do small pics though as it is quite abstract an ill defined.
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Posted - 19/01/2007 : 16:47
Yes, i have tried encaustic art i liked doing it as you can really use your imagination! One of the last Acrylic paintings i did turned out oddly. I started doing a picture of Pendle on canvas, didnt like it then did a spiral, abstact on top , didnt like that. So put a plain neutral emulsion on the top of this. Then put long blades of thick blades of grass on with adry brush. Stood back to visualise it and all these faces i could see so i painted them in! |
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Posted - 24/01/2007 : 18:52
im doing some tulips ,rather abig painting with a glazed abstract background. The tulips are done in tissue paper and the glazing has six layers!Trouble iswill need a very large frame! |
Flutterby
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Posted - 07/02/2007 : 21:26
Ive just been looking at Water colour stretchers on e-bay, they are £12each is this dear for them? |
Sue
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Posted - 08/02/2007 : 09:48
I think mine was £20, but I may be mistaken it is over a year ago since I bought it
Sue
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Posted - 08/02/2007 : 16:24
Flutts that's cheap if they are any good. Ken Bromley's stretchersrange from £20 to £40. Colin
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Posted - 10/02/2007 : 04:23
Just found out yesterday that one of the inspectors I will be managing from April is an accomplished artist who regularly sells and does commissions..... now I wonder what she's like for some free lessons, might go down well for her annual performance reveiw...Nolic
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Posted - 10/02/2007 : 12:32
I fancy going on a painting break to somewhere like Cornwall later this year! Can anyone recommend anywhere it doesnt have to be Cornwall? |
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Posted - 10/02/2007 : 16:20
Fluttd just try "Painting Holidays in Cornwall" into Google. There are quite a few options come up. Nolic
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Posted - 10/02/2007 : 16:47
Yes thanks Nolic! i have looked on there! but its sometimes nice to go off a place some-one has been to. But probably will have to pick the area first |
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Posted - 10/02/2007 : 18:08
Jeremy Ford president of the SAA does painting holidays in the Lakes every summer. He does have a website. Otherwise I can ask him at my next class, but it isn't until March 21st
Sue
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Posted - 10/02/2007 : 18:11
www.jeremyford.co.uk. It mentions them on his home page
Sue
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