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Jim Morris

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Brusho, Yupo..?....I'm really getting left behind here. Sounds like a couple of the Marx Brohers have landed. I was brought up on sugar paper and poster paints...Gee, must be my imagination, but I can still smell those things in we used in art class...)-:
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I remember powdered paint and the patty tins - I think the smell came not so much from the pigments, though some of it may have done, as from the stagnant water when the stuff was reactivated. It was fun, though - I had a friend who became a very considerable artist in later life, who could do anything with any paint on any surface. He wetted the sugar paper, and applied strong colour just in time, before everything got sucked into it.... I can see his work now, and couldn't even begin to compete with it. He died tragically, and tragically young: I often wonder what he could have achieved if he'd lived. Of course, these particular paintings would have faded in time to nothing at all, but those were the materials he had, and he made full use of them - just taking pleasure in playing with the paint; and that, basically, is what Brusho is good for. I also remember making papier maché, and painting it - don't remember what we used for that.... don't think it was poster paint, but it may have been. We are talking some 50 plus years ago. I made a head that closely resembled Davos from Doctor Who - before my time, because he hadn't been invented then. A frightful thing it was too - gave me nightmares... http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk

Rebecca Chapman

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Thank you for the good advice all. I do use a liberal amount of Brusho, so much it comes off the paper like salt afterwards, so I'm not overly worried about fading. Sylvia, (et al), can I ask, can or do you use candle wax for your wax resist or do you buy special wax crayons for the job? I'm tempted by a broken up opaque candlestick...... Hope you've always had a lovely Christmas and all the best for the New Year by the way :) x
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Go easy with the bleach, MissChapman, dilute it well and use sparingly. It does have a lovely effect. Here's one trial, with bleach, I did a few years ago.

Michael Robinson

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Syd, yes I've just bought some of these wax resist sticks but haven't tried them out yet. Robert, talking about papier mache, I have in the past made a number of things out of it. This is an owl I made last year for a competition; I painted him with acrylic, I didn't win any prizes but enjoyed doing it none-the-less.
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I've bought some of those, too, Syd, a handy item if you need a thinner line for fence wire or cobwebs etc That's a lovely item, Margaret, a good stance and detail. .

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Robert Jones, Napa

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Syd, I've learned something today, thanks to you - I've actually never seen these wax sticks before, and I thought I'd encountered just about everything arty over the years. And Margaret, your splendid owl looks a lot better than the hideous head I made all those years ago.

Rebecca Chapman

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Thanks for the good advice everyone. Some interesting things to try thanks to this thread! x

Michael Seaflower

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After telling my friend about the problem with lightfastness of Brusho I tried to investigate the pigments in them and their ratings but, like Robert, couldn't fine anything at all. If Colorcraft are so sure their product is lightfast why not list the pigments on their pots, after all the well known "artist quality" manufacturers of watercolour, W&N, Holbein and many more are happy to do so plus their ratings on possible fading. If they want their product to be used by serious artists hoping to sell their work then why not list them.

Alan Owen

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I suggested to a friend who does abstract painting on you tube to use Brusho they won't fade their another friend Joana Booth Thomas has videos on the Brusho and is a patron, ,,,,, by the way her paintings in brusho seem to sell well.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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They won't fade on YouTube you mean? No indeed; nor if you take prints from them (provided you get a move on....).
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