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Linda Wilson

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Just in case you thought that I had given up, I'm posting the latest progress, having returned to it today after a couple of weeks break. This is my first attempt at an oil portrait, by the way.

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This is looking really good Splosh. You can't have much more to go. Out of interest and because there is a thread running about oils, do you use traditional or water-mixable?
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Hi Adele - I use a mixture. I tend to use traditional in the summer, when there is a lot of fresh air around to waft away the obnoxious fumes, while in winter I use water based. but I have not found any problem with mixing the two types together. I use Zest it as a medium and solvent, for the traditional type.

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I loved the traditional although all the spirit dried my skin out, but I couldn't get on with the water-mixable which is a great pity.
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Linda Wilson

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If you are worried about spirits drying your skin out use make-up remover to clean your hands. Make up remover is designed to dissolve oil and grease. Swarfega (from Halfords) is another thing you can use.

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This is really good, well done Splosh.

Adele Elgood

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Thanks for the tip Splosh - I have lately had a bit of a yearning to take out my oils. I haven't touched them in years!

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Nothing would surprise me Syd. First though I have to find where I put them!🙆
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Some paints do dry in the tube, typically those which don't need a lot of oil ground with them - I have a tube of Flesh Tint, Lord knows why I ever bought it, which you could use to brain someone with if so inclined: it's like cement. I've also got tubes which must be 30 years old or more, in which the paint is still usable; and a tube of Mars Orange (a bit hard to find now, at least under that name) in which the metal tube has started to come to pieces, but the paint inside is, if anything, all too fluid - I ought to re-tube it before I get the stuff over everything. Now there's my task for today - not to re-tube it, because I'm sure I should regret it bitterly if I tried doing that, but to find a supplier of Mars Orange: it's a very useful colour in landscape. And comfortingly inexpensive to make.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Incidentally, I'm a tiny bit bothered about using Zest-it as a painting medium - I have considered it, but presumably it's a water-based emulsion; and I wonder if that's an entirely good idea. Mind you, the way the world's going we're not going to need worry about long-term effects of anything...... I like to cheer you all up...
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Linda Wilson

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This may or may not be the final version. All comments welcome.

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I love it Splosh. The very very bestest bit for me is the blue plaited band around the centre chappie's hat - for me it seems to draw it all together.
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