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Painters-Online Team

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Hi All. As part of a review of some of the PO content (which is vast, as you can imagine!) we would appreciate your input on mediums and subjects to help us streamline things a bit. Please could you tell us your favourite mediums and subjects (a maximum of six for each) on this thread? Thanks in advance, Dawn
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Hi Dawn My favourite mediums is watercolour for painting and pencils for drawing . I do use others pastel etc  only occasionally.  My favourite subjects .  Maritime subjects sea, ships mostly  Landscapes   Old vehicles rusty etc.  botanical , mainly trees but do flowers as well  Buildings   Figures.  Hope this is what you wanted.

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Denise Cat

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Hello Dawn, watercolour, oil, pastel, acrylic and charcoal, they are all my favourite. Subjects, very difficult, everything but I think I'm heading towards figures and cubism. I'm probably not much help am I. 
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Das ist einfach! Ahem.  Mediums with oil: Linseed Oil.  Occasionally Stand Oil. Watercolour: Water. Acrylic: Water - occasionally a resinous medium, but not often. Gouache: A bit of water. As for the painting media, as opposed to the media mixed with them: in order:  Acrylic; oil; watercolour; gouache; and any drawing medium that comes to hand, including charcoal, conté, carbon, pen and ink, coloured pencil - and very, very rarely, pastel.   Aye aye, that's your lot (for our older listeners.....).  

Bari Marsh

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Hi Dawn, Watercolour half pan...inktens half pan...pen and ink...pencil,  last and least Gouache..

Lesley Hardy

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Hi Dawn. Oils, acrylics,acrylic inks, watercolour, soft pastels, polycromas coloured pencils,brusho pens/markers. Gouache. Pencils basically anything that takes my interest.  More than six I know, but this is how I work.  Subjects are  usually seascapes,landscapes, abstract/semi. Animals flowers, places I have visited.and anything else that takes my interest,   Hope this is useful as I do seem to try everything.

Sylvia Evans

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Hi Dawn Water miscible oil….tother stuff makes me sneeze, cry, get a headache Acrylic. Coloured pencils Inks. Water colours FULL pan. Gouache  Land/seascape Animals Flowers, trees, leaves grasses. People watching , sketching….well I did before lock up.  /

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My favourite media - oil, pastel, charcoal, pencil. Favourite subjects are Still Life, Portraits, seascapes, Light.
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Favourite mediums Acrylics, pastels and pastel pencils, watercolours, inktense pencils, and for sketching carbon ( pencils) and charcoal . Subjects seascape, flora and fauna, landscapes stonework and recently portraits.

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Stephen Kelly

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Favourite mediums are Watercolour, gouache, acrylics, pens, watercolour pencils & lead pencils. Subjects- Seascapes, landscapes, portraits, animals, buildings & favourite artist work.

Jenny Harris

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Favourite mediums - watercolour (mainly Daniel Smith tubes) used with pen and ink, acrylic ink, Neocolour II water soluble wax pastels, inktense pencils.  Also do quite a few linocuts. Subjects mostly from the world of nature - often animals, usually painted in a stylised illustrative way.  For paper I use Saunders Waterford NOT 300 lbs in High White.

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Lewis Cooper

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Favourite mediums...pencils(of all kinds), pen and ink, watercolour, and mixed media.  Subject matter...people, fantasy, sci-fi, cartoons, illustration and off-beat quirky images of all kinds
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