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Hi Helen,
You could also use a colour shaper, which is similar to a paint brush with a rubber tip:
https://www.jacksonsart.com/colour-shapers-silicone-tool-ivory-soft-taper-point-size-2/?___SID=U
or you could use a mapping pen (sometimes called a ruling pen):
https://www.jacksonsart.com/koh-i-noor-ruling-pen-for-drawing-black-handle-06503
Either one of these would be very easy to peel off the excess masking fluid when you are finished.
Cheers
Doug
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If you need short, thin lines I would use the side of a piece of cardboard , especially like an old birthday card which can also be bent quite easily into nice curves to make reeds or grasses. Otherwise an old credit card comes in very useful too for thin lines.
I hope that this is of use to you :)
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If you just need to keep the moon clear, a bit of candle-wax would probably achieve it. Or you could lay the wash, and then lift out the moon (especially if you weren't using a dye colour like Pthalo or Prussian) with a small coin in a piece of damp cloth. Or, of course, paint in the moon with masking fluid. Terry Harrison has many little tricks like this on his website or YouTube (or, as he would most certainly wish me to tell you, since Terry never misses a marketing trick, at least not knowingly, in his books and dvds).
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Hello Helen, I have a different technique for saving fine lines. I use a lifting watercolour medium (it enables you to lift colour very easily) and, for additional precaution, I protect the areas that have to be blank with masking tape. I cut masking tape and give it the shape that I want.
For masking fluid, I always use a colour shaper for details.
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the idea of an old big hair comb ,taking out one of the teeth ,and sticking it in the end of an old pencil ,.(split it and take out the lead first )
hold in left hand ,and scratch out as you go along.(side of a rule)
and for the odd sail on a lake ,,,,,use some white gauche (I think there is a new white paint out?)
also a persons white jacket on a beach ..look close at old artists painting .....
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I hate masking fluid, as I've probably moaned on about before - ruined those trousers, it did! Mind you, I've got too fat for them now anyway...
But that's an idea - using the tine/tooth of a comb: I did have one of those ghastly applicators, but the gunk either all came out at once in a horrible thick line of rubber, or didn't come out at all because it had turned to semi-solid goop in the nozzle.
Yes there is a new white paint - in fact I think there are several, but one of the manufacturers at least has introduced Titanium White watercolour, which works a lot better than Chinese/Zinc White because the latter goes a ghastly grey if used inexpertly. Turner used white goache, so those who say it's not "pure watercolour" don't really have much of a leg to stand on, unless they think they know better than the greatest of them all.
http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net
http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk