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I keep returning to this thread as more and more comments are added and couldn't resist the challenge to have a go - I stuck rigidly to TB's original outline and did it in my favourite minimalist style although looking at on screen I probably could have reduced the line work further - not really meeting the brief in full which called for washes to be added and this style is probably best left in line work. Anyway fun to do and thought it might be of interest.
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How did it go with the watercolours? It's been a month... To be honest, I thought the little bird was fine as he was (a liyttle fat around the throat, but the pen work was nice). He didn't need watercolour. But you could be right - watercolour over ink means less ink, just define the shape-area and let the watercolour create the textures that the ink has in this one. One thing I LOVE to do is use non-waterproof inks and both a fountain pen and a dip pen... then carefully paint over it with a water-brush, to spread the ink into a pale graduated wash. From my sketchbook (just rubbish)
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Oh! and Ouch!....You state (and I don't know how to show this as an excerpt from your post, being a rather dim 'Regular' but here it is in Speech marks.) You write 'Sylvia I doubt if intrusive posts by many persistent regulars contribute much of value to Forum discussions . It would be better if they stayed away rather than comment on aspects of drawing they do not practice regularly. Your post on this occasion has been an interruption. It's an arrogant assumption that the Forum would die without yours and other 'regulars' frequent posts'
No it is not an arrogant assumption by Sylvia, whose comments are considered, kind and valued. It is true that the Forum would die a death. We need more contributors to the Forum, not fewer .
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so how clever you think you are ,it is better to hold back showing it ,.I said to my son when entering a new job at a college ,I know you may think
you are cleverer and more experienced than others ,,but hold back ,don't jump in and show your a clever fr ,you will create a sense in people that you think your a clever B,,
so play it cool ,,let others have their opinion ..even if you think they are wrong ,,,,,,,,, and they,ll love you ,
So I agree with Rob
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Robk2 dislikes the discursive nature of the forum, and so do I WHEN that discursiveness just pushes a whole subject wildly off-track and its point is lost. But that's what it is, and you have to put up with it - there are ways of bringing it back on track (this one has wandered well away from it) without being offensive and hurtful. If we're wanting to attract more people to comment, whatever the regulars do - become irregular? - I wouldn't have thought that personal remarks were going to help.
Having said which - there is a point here: we do wander all over the place at times; there's a lot to be said for that informality but it can get very irritating when a post is made which has nothing to do with the thread, or a thread is introduced which has nothing to do with the subject heading (probably because it's not always obvious where to put it). Maybe it would help if we all remembered that (although in this case, confusingly, I don't think Sylvia's intervention WAS off topic, at all; I think she just said something which wound Rob up the wrong way).
Incidentally, in that second para I originally typed "...but I can get very irritating...", which I've no doubt is also true.
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Hello
I've been using finalisers quite a bit lately. I have various thicknesses in the black colour. So for the less is more effect, I just use finer lines. When using mid tone paper, I sometimes use white calligraphy ink for highlights, which brightens it up a bit. I have heard that using a Uniball white pen is best, but i haven't found one yet.
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