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Linda Wilson

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If I want to be precise, I draw on paper and trace it onto canvas using old fashioned carbon paper. ( It is not easy to use pencil on canvas.) What ever you do don't draw with biro on canvas as the acrylic will not cover it. However I have often thought that this might be a useful effect ,if you want the construction lines to show. On other smoother surfaces I use coloured watercolour pencils to do preparatory drawings as opposed to graphite as they will dissolve into the paint without trace.

Alan Bickley

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If it's a simple landscape I go straight in with a loaded brush and draw out my design before blocking in. For more complicated studies I always draw a grid and scale my work up from the original concept. For this grid I use thin charcoal sticks and also draw out the design on the canvas with the same charcoal, all works fine and before I paint over the charcoal, just give it a quick wipe with a dry cloth, the design stays put and doesn't pick up the residue from the charcoal. bare in mind that my minimum canvas size for this principle would be 30in up to 48in, for small work I would probably use a 6B pencil.
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Linda Wilson

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It is quite liberating to paint from the general to the specific. Drawing with a brush, then blocking in large areas and then moving into the details and finalising edges. Detail is not lost this way, but it makes you more conscious of the focus of the painting and the composition. There is more to painting than filling in between the lines of a drawing. I think that this is where I have gone wrong many a time.

Ant Holder

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Ordered more canvas today, so I'll be going down the route of fixing pencil with spray then applying Liquitex matt medium to seal. I am considering using MDF boards Gesso primed in the future.
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