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Barry Ayton

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My thoughts: Brushes - yes, you need something DECENT... but not £230 per brush - you could buy TEN £23 brushes and toss each one away as it wore down spiky... and they'd possible last longer as the full ten than one Kolinsky - and each time you tossed one awy the next brush would be NEW, not a 2 year old sable.. But also - 12 brushed for £1 from B&M... is not the way to go. Unless you like picking off lost hairs.. The paper - this is harder to define. For me, you have to suit the paper to what you're doing - BUT it gets expensive trying all the papers. I suggest one of those SAA packs where they have 12 sheets, one of each size, type, wegiht (pulp, hot, NOT, cotton, 300 gsm to 600 gsm). Then you can fidn what's best for YOU and run with it. I do inking - I adore the basic Winsor or Deley HOT and NOT 300 gsm paper. The Arches expensive stuff is useless to me - it sucks up too much and blooms even when dry! Bristol Board is nice, almost no texture (the ink flows better but you lose the texture effects)

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Sounds OK. I tend to buy something like: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BGBUTRG?keywords=bockingford%20140lb%20hot-pressed%20paper&qid=1458577770&ref_=sr_1_13&sr=8-13 When I can - I stick to 9x12 up to 20x16 or so - those bigger sheets are too too too big for me and ink.

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