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Need help from you professional painter ... How to draw skin tone in dark ?I meant how dark background ..or night seen will affect the painting skintone ? Should I add some blue touch to the base mixture of the skins tone? How to make the skin look cooler in dark background? I will appreciate any comment...
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We wanted to set the record straight. There are companies out there that claim that mixing WMO and Acrylics is fine. It's not. It all goes back to the rule of fat over lean , or better represented as elastic over inelastic . Here's the statement from our technical advisor as well as the conservation...
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I have been mixing my own neutral grays from red / yellow / blue and white in several different flavors, cool, warm, (rasberry, lime, etc) Does anyone have helpful hints on A. mixing big batches of grays - 5.0 ozs (big size tubes) B. a graceful way to scoop up all of those lucious gray paints and gracefully...
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Hello, I am not able to tolerate any of the organic solvents, even the odorless mineral spirits. I have found that walnut oil works well for a medium (I get mine from Daniel Smith). It is odorless and non-toxic. To clean my brushes I use something called Murphy's Oil Soap. I get it at my local Safeway...
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Anyone who knows the work of Michael Workman is familiar with the beautiful effect he achieves with transparent washes of oil paint, especially with respect to fields of grass. Does anyone have suggestions for how to achieve such effects?
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Beautiful painting Lori! I love all of the simple - yet effective - brushstrokes; and of course those darks... just great! -Daniel
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It's a pleasure to share the information with you- I have learned so much through these forums, things that I really should have been taught in art school. Professors of fine arts- hear this and please teach your students all of the technical tips, tricks and techniques that you can think of!
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Hi Kadon, There is a very important difference between retouching and finishing varnish: Retouching varnish is used on touch-dry, or recently-dry oil paintings that haven't dried completely through yet. You might need to varnish a painting before it has completely dried, say when you have an exhibition...
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Hi everyone, I've finished varnishing the paintings and they are now hanging in the gallery. If anyone is interested, the gallery's site is www.elm75.de (in German only) and the images are on my own site www.sarahdudley.net, along with photos from the vernissage. About the varnish- the onion...
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There are several things you can do. As mentioned, you can replace your regular oil titanium white for a tube of alkyd white. It dries more quickly and, since you mix white with most colors, you will speed the drying time. You can also buy a bottle of cobalt drier. You will find it where you find oil...