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Sandesh Khule

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Have'nt painted with oils for quite sometime now. can't wait to start again, again with the smells it totally defers.
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Peter Smith

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Some of our art group members use oils without seeming to have any problems but personally I'll stick with acrylics. 

Norrette Moore

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I didn't want to start a new topic, so apologies for interrupting this one. Has anyone used Acrylic Gouache? I'd like to know your thoughts. I'm really hoping that I can be dissuaded from buying any, as I really have far too much paint already. (I could open a shop!)

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Peter Smith

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I didn't know there was such a thing. I'm still trying to get my head around water soluble oil paint.

Sylvia Evans

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They are lovely to use Peter with the properties of “proper” oils…
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Sandra Kennedy

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I haven't Norette but have seen some lovely work done with acrylic gouache. What about treating yourself to just the minimum basic colours (you're a good colour mixer) and try it out to see if it suits you? Probably give you a better idea than someone else's experience with it? Obviously you are curious about it.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I'd like to have a go with Casein, but ..... acrylic gouache, interactive acrylics, regular oils, water-miscible oils, basic gouache, egg tempera, silverpoint, liquid charcoal, non-liquid charcoal, carbon pencil, conté crayon, vine charcoal, nitram charcoal, watercolour, regular oils, regular acrylic, pen and ink, brush and ink....... I so feel a bit peculiar with all that!  Life is surely too short? 

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I’ve got some jars of casein, it goes on smoothly and some colours have a fairly thick consistency. Pelikan Plaka is the manufacturer, they have a few decent earth colours in the range, and some that wouldn’t fit in with my palette. I tend to use it to block in certain areas in my watercolours in the initial stages, it’s waterproof so you can add washes without any problems. And it dries flat, no awful shine to it! Rowland Hilder introduced it to me way back in 1985, so I’ve used it since then…they do a nice Red Earth…

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Norrette Moore

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...What about treating yourself to just the minimum basic colours...
Sandra Kennedy on 27/01/2025 20:50:44
Yes, I'm thinking about it Sandra.  The Holbein ad from the Jacksons promo email showed some small basic sets....very reasonable and at 12 ml size, it doesn't feel like too much of a waste. I agree, Robert, I can't keep up with the innovations either.
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Sandra Kennedy

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And if you do Norrette why not put the results, if you are happy with them, either on this thread or on the Gallery? I've just looked for you on the Gallery but nothing comes up under your name. I do remember you used to have two lovely paintings there, what's happened to them?

Norrette Moore

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If you click on my name, Sandra, you'll see them, I'm often misspelled with a single 'r', so a search won't find me (useful at times 🙂). It will take while as I have to order them.  I might do a comparison against gum arabic gouache.

Fiona Phipps

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Hi Norrette, I found this info on Acrylic Gouache on Jackson’s latest newsletter, hope it’s of use. https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2025/01/07/rebecca-green-on-curating-her-holbein-acrylic-gouache-set/?utm_campaign=holbein_rebecca_green&utm_source=klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_content=bnl280125&_kx=Xqc9Mwj3ygSuGMbZRW6S77lHaUDoqNRZTywDDKk4i-Q.Yxbst5
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