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Tessa Gwynne

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Excellent! Look forward to seeing some good work with them Andrew.  Helen too!

Dmitry Shaklanoff-von Seipt

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I tried to post something about Chinese piston brushes, as in my photos. But the posts keep disappearing. Maybe this one...
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Your posts disappearing on the Forum?  I don't think anyone has removed them, that would show in the moderators' panel - or it would if there'd been any complaint, not necessarily if a moderator had jumped in and removed the post in error immediately having seen it: an error which would be  pretty inexplicable ... let us know if that happens again.   I haven't got one of those brushes - I've long meant to buy a set; time I did.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Didn't see Helen's question of 11 months ago - I think the answer is no more complicated than "heavyweight cartridge" - I'm currently using String & Space pads (odd name, I know) of 200 gsm paper: takes acrylic, watercolour, ink, more or less anything short of oil: it would certainly take brush pen work (and does, though I'm not using Tombow like Adebanji).  

Dmitry Shaklanoff-von Seipt

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"Disappearing" posts were my inability to properly post  them.  Today I filled those piston brushes with Econoline liquid watercolour. I shall practice throughout the day, then I shall empty and clean the brushes, shall not leave ink in them overnight. I have three brushes, two of them have this slightly longer single hair,that allows hairline strokes. I read somewhere that calligraphers form and cut the tips so one single hair is ever present, as it were. There.must be procedure , obviously I'll have to link up with calligraphers! While confidence Increases fast with practice, you soon realise the practice will take years for something interesting to appear. These are relatively cheap brushes from a well known international Asian platform ( I don't know whether I can name it here). I suspect that calligraphers use this sort of brushes for practice (they save you an extra movement to dip the brush in ink and allow to concentrate on line variation). Would be interested in some feedback, especially about suitable inks and this "single hair" procedure, if it exists at all.  
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