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...Christmas is coming up faster than most of us would like!
If you would like top suggestions for gifts for artists from some very well-respected artists, along with festive demonstrations to follow, look out for our Christmas Gift Guide coming soon!
Plus, if you don't already receive our email newsletters, make sure your PO accounts are up to date, allowing us to contact you by email, as we will be sharing some exclusive recommendations and demos on our newsletters which you won't be able to find anywhere else!
Ho, ho, ho!
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Bah! Humbug!
Unless, of course, you're buying me prezzies - I'd like some angled brushes like those that Andrew Tischler uses (but on long handles), and a bumper pack of Wallace Seymour and Michael Harding paints, please; oh, and some of the unusual Rublev paints, and a lifetime's supply of their lead whites.
No pressure, then. I take it that POL is encouraging us, or will soon, to produce festive paintings. Now, if you were to make a competition of it, with a first prize being a voucher for Rosemary & Co, for example, I'm sure we'd all make a special effort. (And I bet Alan Bickley would win it ....)
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I haven't tried the Tischler collection, but at Rosemary's prices I could afford a handfull of them. Andrew Tischler introduced me - not directly, I don't know him - to Cobalt Teal: a startlingly beautiful colour, almost irrespective of who makes it. Always reluctant to recommend individual brushes or colours, because some people seem to think that if only they had that "right" brush or colour, they could become internationally celebrated: sadly, this is unlikely to be true - I think we all need to try Cobalt Teal once in our lives: it GLEAMS on my palette, and seductively induces me to use it!
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Tischler uses Cobalt Teal to good effect within his marine paintings, a joy to see. If anyone thinks they will become a better artist by recommendations of others if they use a particular brand, wrong, however the various surfaces and mediums mentioned could be of interest especially to those new to art. Even though I've been painting for a few decades I still find other artists finds exciting and reviews interesting. As was yours of Rublev oil paints. I'm not an oil painter, just dabble with them, but I had to go search for them, they look a natural selection of colours . . . maybe one day.
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Yes, Mr Tischler would be a startlingly good painter if he used a limited palette of just three primaries - we could all add a fresh dimension to our work,, by adding one or more beautiful colours; cobalt teal really is a gorgeous colour, but .... well, this was covered many years ago by Fred Johnstone, or Johnson - Dawn could tell us which, I'm sure, because Fred J was a former editor of Leisure Painter; he pointed out that you could add any number of wonder-colours to your palette, but what matters is what you do with them.
I do think that adding a really gorgeous colour like Cobalt Teal to your palette WILL help - but only if you can paint without it. I found that adding Mars Orange, Mars Violet, even more by using them in mixes, can add greatly to the subtlety of our paintings: but relying on a knock-your-eyes out colour isn't going to help at all if you really don't know what you're going to do with it. If you don't, it can lead you right up the garden path and really only take you to, and over, a cliff at the end of it - and have you hurtling down to hideous depths.
What takes you forward is understanding tone, more than anything else - or that's what I think anyway. I've tried all sorts of new (to me) colours, and I love to do it: but if you don't have the basic understanding of tone, the most gorgeous of new colours will be of little help; and might even lead you into the hideous realm of those Scottish colourists whose work just fills me with absolute gloom. But - other points of view are available! I don't want to slip into dogmatism about it....
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Just a heads-up that our Christmas gift guide goes live tomorrow with a host of recommendations plus painting demonstrations and videos to boot!
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