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We're all looking forward, I'm quite sure, to seeing how Alan gets on with them: I think I've just finished my second oil on ACF supports - I often think I have, and then take another look and come back to them - but whether it's quite done or not, it was fun to do and I'm quite anxious to have a go with the remaining canvases. I do like the tooth - I don't use Turps much any more, just a little Linseed Oil normally, and it takes that very well; plus the paint isn't sinking in - very often a problem with, e.g., canvas boards. In his email to me, Alan was very enthusiastic about the build quality, and I certainly endorse that: a lot of thought, and probably a lot of experimentation, has gone into this product.
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If you think you’ve finished, then probably best to quit while you’re still ahead.
If you don’t, you run the risk of ‘fiddling’, a word that should send shivers down any grown artists spine!
I’m as guilty as anyone, but I’m making a conscious effort to reign myself in…
I’m going to adopt a very loose style (hopefully), on this industrial landscape that I have earmarked for my trial run on one of these ACF supports that arrived yesterday. 16 x 20in, so room to express myself in an impressionistic style.
I’ve not finalised the composition yet, but I’m hoping that it will form part of a feature that I’m working on for The Artist… we’ll see how it progresses first, but my initial impressions of these supports is very favourable - the workmanship and attention to detail is exceptional!
Watch this space…
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Fiddle, fiddle .... slap! OK, I've slapped my wrist and put the brush down. In fact, I'm in two minds about fiddling - sometimes a fiddle is necessary to finish: but on the whole, it rarely works out: I have the mentality of those Victorian painters who assiduously recorded every leaf, every brick, every hair - thing is, sometimes that works...... No, no, all right, I've washed the brush now!
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I think fiddling is sent to test us , no matter how often I say to myself that fine don’t fiddle , walk away and come back later to pick up the brush , just because it needs that extra touch , oooh no it’s gone wrong better fiddle to put it right .
It happens to us all I believe no matter what medium we use or years of experience, to fiddle or not to fiddle that is the question, but who knows the right answer.
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In passing - i.e. here he goes again, nattering - on the fiddling front: I have a cliff in my recent one, which I've now stopped working on, promise; try as I may I couldn't stop it bearing a very close resemblance to Donald Trump en profile - and Lord knows, no one wants that; so a bit more fiddling was essential - it's a bit of a curse, seeing faces in clouds and cliffs, and one to which most of us fall victim; when it's obvious, you can't NOT see it - I hope it's not obvious any more, but - someone will see a face.
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I’ve just completed (apart from a bit of fine tuning), my first ‘canvas’ from ACF Canvases that was sent to me to test out.
It isn’t canvas of course, it’s a synthetic material with a fine tooth, so I didn’t know how I’d get on with it.
Good news is, I’m rather impressed… takes a bit of adjustment technique wise, but it’s a lovely surface to paint on. I’ve used artists quality oils and they glide over the surface really well.
I’ve painted my version of Windsor Castle from Eton meadows, a well known vantage point for artists over the centuries, but I’ve not slavishly copied the scene, there wouldn’t be any point, but put my own take on it.
All being well, I’ll post it next week, along with a few more details.
