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POG....brilliant . My son had a dog called POG...Pot of Gold....I promise I won't call you young man as long as you don't call me elderly...I am the oldest of this lot and in not saying what. Like what you have started it's interesting I expect your wife will come around to it as it keeps progressing...keep posting it as it it does progress...very impressed with your skating... PS their first dog was called Fridge ...they went to buy a fridge and came back with a dog , nuff said.Pot of Gold - POG !!! What a great coincidence Sylvia 😊 Thank you for share, it's very kind of you. I like FRIDGE too! It reminds me my own story happened few years ago, when we were invited by my wife's workmate to see his puppies... Japanese Akita... We came back with one of them home 😅 It doesn't matter (the age) at all. Some are already old at their 20's, where some are forever young at their 90's! Isn't it true Sylvia? I was already suggested to quit my skating hobby, because I'm over my 50's, and broken bones aren't easy healing anymore... I guess I'm better off sit on my sofa, learn how to smoke cigarettes, and start having steady life instead? We all different, and that's a good thing 😊 I hope my wife will appreciate my efforts (lol 😅). Thank you Sylvia, and if you would like to check out my skating...? I'm making short videos sometime, and I do upload it to my YouTube... Below I'm attaching one of them, the rest is similar, but I don't know if you'll be able to find it easy? my skating ...
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Hi dear friends, you might be wonder why I'm not posting any updates, why I'm keep quiet ...
MY ACCOUNT WAS LOCKED OUT !?
First I thought I did something wrong, breach the forum principles somehow, or else...
So I got in touch by sending the message to our Admins, sending apologies and asking for letting me know the issue I did to avoid it happens in future...
After few days I did receive reply, that everything is alright, and there's no issue I did cause, and I should have login without any problem, as from the forum side, everything looks alright...
This morning I was still locked out - so weird!
But I'm having similar issue on the other forum, where occasionally my IP address is recognised as being on black list, but in few days I can login to that forum without any trouble?
Admin of the other forum can not see any issue, and he can't fix it for me, because again - the issue seems to not exist, so there's nothing to fix...
If the same trouble will affect me in here, then I can only apologise in advance for not replying to your messages on time...
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Now let's talk a bit of my painting ...
I'm giving up on it, I will start again soon, but on Ampersand claybord.
You may wonder why...
It's the Belgian Linen texture that's upsetting me a lot.
You already know, that I'm freshly getting back to oils.
For many years I was making my arts on smooth paper only.
The first thing I've noticed starting this portrait of my wife and niece, was canvas texture, so harsh compared to the paper...
I tried not to focus on it, and carry on the painting, but I just can't do it anymore...
Every time when I look at the previous two pieces I did (dog and the soldier) I am missing that smoothness!
(They both were made on gesso primed paper.)
I don't want do my arts on paper anymore.
It's oils.
This medium deserves best surfaces in my opinion.
Preferably canvas, but I'm having problem related to the texture, so I did some research, and I decided to try Claybord instead.
It is archival, it is highest quality, as far as they say, it's similar surface to the one that old oil masters used to paint on - so everything seems to be alright?
I do know Claybord already, it's because I used it for my airbrushing.
It's hard to express how much I was amazed with what Claybord let me achieve back then.
Therefore I'm eager to try it with oils, but worry at same time it won't work for me.
Yes, I did online research to gather as much information as possible, so I'm aware of pros and cons...
Just willing to try it on my own.
All I need is to get similar effect of my oil painting, to these two I recently did on the paper...
That's all I'm after.
Art.
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If it's of any help at all - the most awkward surface I ever worked on was a linen, transparently primed, and on a board, so the natural colour showed through: I don't know, and should have asked, what that priming consisted of, but it turned my paint into toothpaste, greedily slurping the oil out of it: Jackson's clear-primed rough linen - it might suit some, but it certainly didn't suit me. AND it warped.
Ampersand - I'm not sure I used their clayboard, it might have been a different surface, worked very well for an oil painting, gave me nightmarish difficulties with acrylic - think smearing - but I've only used their boards once or twice, and who's to say the problem lay with the board rather than with my technique.. If an idea just isn't working out, it's very tempting to lay all the blame on the surface, or even the paint, when the fault lies with oneself.
In short, I agree with Arthur - oil paint is expensive stuff, don't skimp on the surfaces you apply it to: it deserves the best, and can punish you if you use the worst. Sometimes though - it IS us: just as there are some watercolour papers I can't get on with, and this is a common phenomenon, so there are surfaces which just don't work for us in oil or acrylic - e.g. I should be the first to say that Jacksons generally make good boards, but for whatever reason that particular board and I would never get on.