I've just been toying a bit with a mixed media effort which I put on the Gallery for comments - my hope was that it would be a study for an oil or acrylic, but... something's wrong with it. Some good suggestions about what that might be - I'm going to have to think about it some more before trying another version. However, all too often I get hung up on a study that doesn't work, and instead of putting it away and moving on to something else, I worry about why it doesn't work, and make innumerable versions of it in the hope that something magic will happen in one of them and I'll be able to translate it to the Heavenly Sphere itself... Rarely works. So I've put it aside, and have just put a coat of Burnt Sienna on a canvas board to start something else entirely. And hope THAT works. I think it's time for one of those exponential leaps one sometimes makes ..... you know the feeling: you get stuck on a plateau, which is a stage higher than where you were before - but you're stuck there for too long, and want to move up to the next one; well it's time for the next one. No pressure, then ..... Now then: Casein - what does anyone out there know about Casein? I know it's a paint derived from milk, that it's a forerunner of acrylic (although not structurally related to it) and that it remains very popular in the USA. I've seen a lot of good work in Casein, by US artists: but I've never yet found it for sale in Britain (or Europe). Has anyone out there used it? Do you know where to get it? What do you think of it? And if there's a paint manufacturer lurking amongst you - why can't we buy it here?