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I hear you Alan and this forum site is doing more or less that.
I asked a question re something I didnt know about and got a couple of very satisfactory answers . Maybe its how a question is posed and how an individual wants to answer it.
Your u tube films are wonderful so you could always direct people in that direction. As for query re found paintings ( Aunty annie left me in her will ) some of them are good and the asker has been more than happy to give info and also thanked people for their efforts. Some people have not even had the courtesy to make any further comments and are complete time wasters.
As for your cat ran up our lobby chit chat , why not ? Its what makes the world go around and makes for a pleasant interchange. Some people are lonely and its good to say hello. its easy enough not to join in.
I think your comments re a whole process of "how do you do that" is great, so Alan Owen you can be number one adviser. :).
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well I finished my knife oil painting .it was hard work using old paints .but when they are thirty .they are a bit stiff .( like me)) I used the old turning key but
some burst from the sides ,and the smell of turps ( used to clean brushes and rag soaked turps) yes ,,the smell blew through the house from the back ,and oh yes,the growl threw a wobbler
I think I must spend more time preparing ,before I start./// The painting is a style I used many years ago.where a black line is painted as a drawing first,, similar to the scrawled one before you start,,
(I used a black acrylic line,,) so I can separate the paint sections as I paint , the final is finished with black oil line ...
the artist I have tried to emulate is a chap from Wales named Kyffin Williams , there is not a lot of information on him .like the colours in his Palette .though I think they are//black ,umber, cad red
cad yellow .yellow ochre ,and ultramarine . and of course base white ..I would like to know any more of him if any one knows ,I remember Rolf Harris did a little piece with him on the tv I believe ....
his portraits are very good and done with a palette knife and sell for very very high prices ,...before I leave you..is there any one who uses acrylics with a palette knife .. would they be to thin
are there some which are made for this high relief style ??thanks for you time
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Syd - Why would you recommend ONLY transparent colours? That would exclude (deep breath) Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Light Red, Cadmium and Winsor Red, Cadmium Yellow, Naples Yellow, Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue, and leave you, Sydney, with colours like Phthalo Blue and Green, which you hate...! You'd butcher three-quarters of my palette if you did that...
Painting with just transparent colours is actually a good exercise, but you've got to paint them over something or you end up with pretty thin gruel in anything other than watercolour. Ultramarine is generally transparent, though: so it can be done, but if we were to recommend that to beginners would we not be imposing a bit of a burden on them?
Alan - Sir Kyffin Williams to you, boyo! (Pronounced 'Cuffin'.) He died a couple of years ago - one of my favourite painters, and also one of Sylvia's; he often, even usually, used a painting knife and could achieve detail and definition with it in a particularly striking way; is there not much on the web about him? I must take a look - I've known his work for so long that I thought everyone else was familiar with it too; interesting if you're taking him as your guide, but if I were you I'd order some new tubes of paint - (and I should do the same). Claggy old oils with fragile tubes can and do burst like little buggers, and leave you spending more time wiping congealed paint off your sleeves and hands than applying it to the canvas.
And yes, I do sometimes paint in acrylic with a painting knife - you need a heavy bodied paint for this ideally: I'm told that Golden Acrylics (a US brand) work well with a knife though haven't ever tried them; I tend to use a combination of Winsor and Newton's Artists' Acrylic, and Cryla (especially Cryla) from Daler Rowner: unlike some other brands, you can use it to achieve those gestural shapes and physical highlights, even without using something like Texture Paste: but because of the nature of all acrylics, if you really want to go to town with the physical properties of the paint, a touch of texture will help - could be PVA glue, which I seem to remember you've used before, or the pastes supplied by the various manufacturers.
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Robert
I told you about getting covered with oils doing the last one One of our ladies mentioned a brat ,(pinefore ) but I still got covered .I thought beggar this I will buy a brown warehouse coat (lab coat),,
if you look on the tube at a video of Kiffin Williams, he is wearing a lab coat that is covered all over in paint .. he is seen wiping his brushes on himself as he paints .. wow
I am still waiting for my coat in the post ,,no more oils for me until it arrives ..
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I think new users might be confused by threads such as this ... it started off as one subject and now there are two or three going on ... If all these subjects were put into separate threads that might be a good starting point?
I'm happy to start new threads and I also don't mind adding to threads on subjects that have been discussed before.
Kay M
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