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This is my Ampersand board painting . A few years ago we were waiting for the ferry on the Isle of Lewis to take us back to Skye . About 7 pm on a June evening . All the cars were parked in a line and the local Chippy was doing a great trade . I walked to the end of the line of cars to see if I could see the ferry . It was just the right moment to take an amazing photograph of the reflections under the jetty.
I have done this before in coloured pencil and Diana Hudson has as well. ( look hers up on the gallery it's wonderful) anyhow I am now attempting my version in acrylic. Have stepped back for the moment it's making my eyes go funny. Anyhow here it is in three stages .
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Quite an education in the painting process.
But take a rest - given your eye problems you need to take care. How did you find the Ampersand board in the end, once you'd managed to get used to your unfortunately added gesso?
Not that one's one to rub it in.
Although if one were one to rub it in, one would point out that there's a nice big section for WIPs towards the bottom of the page here. Though naturally one just hates to be prescriptive and tied to dull categories...... (Start the day as you mean to go, I always say - and today, we are Mr Pedantry 2017.)
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I don't think it IS you - the surface of the panel I've got, which is probably the same as yours, is absorbent to some degree; this doesn't seem to matter with oil.... probably because the oil is thicker than the mix of water and resin in acrylic - but with acrylic it seemed to guzzle the paint up appreciatively a bit earlier than I'm used to.
Mind you, this is an assessment based on just one panel (two of course if you count the oil), and it may be that it's just a technique that needs getting used to. I shall persist with them, but if I find it is a problem I'll restrict them to oils. Has anyone else tried them, and found this an issue?
Green algae on the piles - well, ar, yes: living near the sea, with jetties and piers in abundance, you get all sorts of slimy stuff and the occasional barnacle on wooden piles, but it will depend on how long they've been there, and it also seems to depend on local conditions, eg the rate of movement in the water - presumably some get washed clean, I don't know. So we'll say that Sylvia's posts are new ones! Then she'll let me off my period of putrescent pedantry, if not my alliteration.