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Alan Bickley

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Thanks for the compliments on my tree... It was done as a demo for an art group along with some other stuff a couple of years back. As for using Tippex, I will give that one a miss as I'm more than happy with my Plaka (Pelican Plaka) to be exact, it goes on smoothly and has a matt finish which I prefer. Like Robert, I thought Tippex had vanished since the demise of the typewriter in favour of DTP. The last time I saw that little bottle and its integral brush as I recall was donkey's years ago on my secretary's desk, parked next to her Remington typewriter, or was it her Remington shaver?, anyway, it was one of those. I expect Robert can remember the old black Imperial 66, what a classic - Happy Birthday by the way, you are catching me up...
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Mia Ketels

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Yes Robert and Alan, Tippex is still available. It is made by Pritt (correction fluid) and it comes indeed in the little bottles with a fine brush. If you shake it well and close it firmly, you can keep it for a long time. I rarely use it in my sketches but I can apply it in a thin layer and it is easy to cover with watercolour or whatever. A thick layer maybe will crack and peel off but since I only used it in one sketch, I have no experience in that. Normally, I also use the white of the paper :) Mia http://www.painters-online.co.uk/artist/MiaKetels

John Kay

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White has always been used by watercolourists, when many pigments were fugitive, using gouache was recommended by all art teachers as effectively resistant to fading. John
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