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Marjorie Firth

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Well the braids might be enough to minimise the effect of the yellow jacket, I was thinking.
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Linda Wilson

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You could be right Marjorie.
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Linda Wilson

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Braids have been added, albeit crudely so far.  Now to move onto the oil phase, so I can blend some shadows into the fabric.  I just hope it will dry in reasonable time in the cold weather.

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It is going brilliantly Linda…you are not painting outside ,are you?
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Linda Wilson

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Thank you Sylvia.  My conservatory is so cold, it might as well have been.  This week I am getting my whole roof replaced as the truth of what the solar panel cowboys did is being revealed (broken and cut tiles.  So water is leaking in, even in the house.

Sylvia Evans

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Ooooer…horrid, I gad cowboys fitting a crap boiler. …so I know what you mean.its still a fab pic.
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Marjorie Firth

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Braids are enough Linda. Also, if you are worried about drying time, use an alkyd white with your other oils to speed things up. I am sure you will add white in various proportions to your yellow mix and probably to most of the others. And the earth colours - browns especially, always dry more quickly. I don’t tend to add oil , most of my paints are Jacksons Professional and some Michael Harding.
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Linda Wilson

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Many thanks for the advice Marjorie.  I normally use water soluble oils, but I don’t know if you can mix alkyd with them.
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Marjorie Firth

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You can use ordinary oils with waterbased in the correct proportion. Check it out online. I’m sure a small amount of alkyd white will be ok.

Alan Bickley

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I have some fast drying oil medium from Wallace Seymour. I can take a photo if you need to see the bottle…or of course look online. I mix it 50/50 with distilled turpentine and it does help enormously with the drying time.

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Denise Cat

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It's looking good Linda and now you have added the braided hair, it has certainly made a difference to breaking the yellow up a bit.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

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You can mix alkyd with water-miscible oils, or Harding's drying medium (which I think is a mix of Turps and Stand Oil) but using either will lose the qualties, such as they are, of the water-miscibles.   Faster drying with oils means going as easy as possible on Titanium White, and avoiding Alizarin Crimson and the Cadmiums.  Obviously, avoid Zinc White.  Alkyds would be quite a good medium to use with a project like this one: much faster drying than either conventional oil paint or the watery offering (my dislike of the latter is, I know, peeping through).  
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