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an area in St Helens called green bank . a saying was,"" You,r as thick as a green bank butty " in an other area they were called yukies
(country bumpkins) any other sayings from your area.??
I used to love Nelly Pledge from the pickle factory.. and our Elly did n,t she say " go on , you big soft blouse "
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(Quote) I've seen AlanO use that reservoir brush in one of his online demonstrations - tempted by that now, too, because riggers often run out of paint at the crucial moment.
Never come across that reservoir brush Robert but I don't like the sound of it at all, could be bulky...I don't know. The reason that I use a rigger is to give me a variation in line strength and depending on how much paint or ink I apply to it dictates how long the line will be, When it has nearly run out it is so good for branches and I can get a line thinner than a human hair, I'll stick with what I know, but each to their own I suppose, I'm just not a gadget man.
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I probably never use more than a dozen brushes maximum including a toothbrush and a short stubby thing I nicked from the wife's cosmetic collection. Yes, I have a jar full of all sorts of them, some that will probably never see paint. I also sometimes us a finger as fancy takes. My " studio" is about two square feet of kitchen worktop beside my computer which I manage to cram an amazing assortments of pads, sketchbooks, pens, pencils etc etc, into. My plastic paintbox/pallette lookes like an accident in a paint factory and I have more tubes than the royal artillery. It's art, I tell my wife......(-:
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I've got about five brushes; a large and a small mop, a rigger, and round size 8 but the one I use to do all my paintings, (watercolours) including the sky, unless it's a large sky is a 'Roger Jones' brush made by Rosemary & Co. It will do sky washes to the finest branch work usually done by a rigger. It's a size 12 sable, with a good belly and it tapers to almost a couple of hairs at the tip. I've had it for about eight years and it's still as good as new.......and it gets plenty of work.
For oils I use a selection of about seven brushes from large 1/2 inch to a rigger and three knives.
For pen & wash an old nib dip pen, a sharpened canvas stretcher wedge and my Roger Jones brush.
A very modest collection, I must try harder!!lol
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Coming back on a couple of things - first Alan B: the reservoir brush is for watercolour; I don't think it would be of any use at all in oil, which is your preferred medium; I wonder if it might be useful in acrylic - well, if I were going to try it for that, I'd get two brushes, one for watercolour, one for acrylic, as I do NOT like mixing up equipment.
Fiona - how long have you been painting, though? I've got brushes for all the media I use, I've been given some, bought many, inherited a few, and over 50 years .... well, even if I only acquired one brush a year I'd have a good many; and, um ..... I've acquired rather more than that per annum. But there's nothing at all wrong with a small collection if they meet your needs: and probably I do tend to use just a few brushes regularly, while finding it enjoyable to play with others - some people have train sets, some collect china, I collect brushes..... and lots of other things. Ron Ranson said of watercolour that you could get by quite happily with one hake brush plus a rigger - and yes, you could. But I bet very few of us do.
Anyway - don't go buying brushes just for the sake of it, which I don't suppose you were going to do anyway. There are many worse ways to spend your money, though - and I've tried a good few of those, as well...
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Yes Robert, I had realised that it was for watercolour, I will have a look at it in use so thanks Alan O for the link, mind you, I'm probably too set in my ways to change to anything new.
Of course, we all know that you can have the most spacious and well laid out studio, every conceivable brush and ancillary product on the market but it won't make one iota of difference to your work, well, very little anyway. I use very limited materials these days, keep it simple is my motto, particularly when working out of doors as I prefer to do anyway, and the weather doesn't often deter me either, if you're keen enough you'll put up with anything, although I do understand that it is not always an option for some of us due to health and mobility issues.
My studio usually looks like a wild animal has rampaged through it, but I'm that animal, that's how I work and how I like it, but I do know where everything is, my daughter's have been given warnings not to enter and start tidying up, but they invariably ignore my pleas and then I can't find anything for weeks, such are the trials of life...
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Pretty well most of our forum posts seem to wander 'off piste'' at times, and this was no exception. I introduced a small chapter just to break off from the small talk about bathing which several of you got involved with, not that this bothers me in the least.
There is only so much that one can say about a toilet roll used as a drying aid for wet brushes, so I suppose that a diversity of subject was inevitable.
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I fold pieces of old towel into four inch squares for brush dabbing ,I use two cheap watercolours at the end of my palette ,ultramarine and burnt umber for mixing my blacks ,,
I use an old pill bottle filled with some black acrylic and touch of water ,,,drop in a steel nut for shaking before use .,for pen and wash..
or put little in a tin lid and add a little water ,
alsithy
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