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Alan Owen

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I use burnt umber a lot .and find the wxn burnt umber dries very hard ,,is their anyone who adds a little Gum Arabic ,or Ox Gall as you fill your pans ...I would like to know the results ,,please.

Kay Devlin

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Some of the paints I use dry hard on the palette - I add a few drops of water with a pipette to all the paints I'm going to use, leave them be for a few minutes and find that they soften up nicely. No need to scrub with my best brushes (although I use cheapo brushes for mixing). I always use a pipette to transfer water to my paint wells, it means the water in my cup stays relatively clean throughout my painting. Kay M
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I use a pipette all the time for mixing washes - it's so much easier than transferring brushloads of water to the mixing wells.

Alan Owen

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Sennelier are an easy to wet up. watercolour and I believe they use honey. though in the test I view on the tube,, Glycerine came out the best additive ,,,,between honey and Glycerine ,. I see no harm in adding a little glycerine in the tube mix ,to keep the umber pliable . and I find it is hard to wet up some umbers a few days old,,,,and left in a warm area. I do agree most watercolours wet up easy but to keep the flow as you work and make it easy ,,,,,, it is not a bad thing ,,,,,,especially doing large washes

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I'm pretending I mix colours from what I already have in my paintbox - and then I go and buy another tube!! for greens though, I use phthalo green (my fave!) and mix with burnt sienna, quin gold, raw sienna, alizarin or permanent rose - whatever's handy in my palette, i've newly discovered transparent orange - totally amazing!! I painted a grey painting recently using alizarin and phthalo green, not sure i like it but i really liked the grey mix with phthalo green and permanent rose - yum!!
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