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Ant Holder

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Made a start on latest piece...a phot supplied by Steve Heaney MC. He was a member of the elite unit known as the Pathfinders...or xplatoon.

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Started adding colour today... Hot weather and Acyrlics don't mix.... Anyway.....attempting to build shapes and will work tomorrow again. Out if my comfort zone really and loving the challenge and change.

Anth Knight

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Wow, loving this so far. Looking forward to seeing progress!
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Lewis Cooper

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Looking just great AG. In some other work you've done the figures first, but I guess the background is the dominant part of this painting...always interesting to see how others work. Lew.

Anth Knight

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Looking good! Love the depth of the waterfall, and the leaf detail's working really well. Stop me if I'm talking nonsense, but you can buy a drying retarding agent for acrylics can't you? Would that be any help? Drying speed was one thing that always put me off acrylics and made me stick to oils, although I use liquin to speed up drying normally (!)
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Looking good, AG. Like that waterfall.
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I paint on mdf and paper and regularly spray the surface and it works great for me - but then I do work flat. Having said that a few runs etc should add to looseness and interest - make the most of them if they occur.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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I use a stay-wet palette, which helps keep the colour workable (better than retarder, which has the drawback Pat mentions); I also use a flow-improver now and then (a few drops in the paint water); and certainly spray the painting - I always keep a little spritzer bottle at my side. Yes, the paint will slide down the canvas if it's wet already - but then if it's wet already you shouldn't need more water. If it removes drying paint, the paint's underbound, or the surface needs de-greasing. There are interactive acrylics - I'm not sure that they really solve this issue completely: but then, I don't use them. Thoughts from anyone who does? Oils allow all sorts of effects more easily than acrylics - I don't think that this has anything to do with water-miscibles as opposed to regular oils or alkyds, though: I don't understand why the issue being explored here would be affected by the type of oil paint used (I also think water-miscible oils are trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist, but that's for another day; just thought I'd drop a match in the petrol...... always fun!).
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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By the way, does it matter if the paint does shift a bit when sprayed? The really good thing about acrylics is that you paint anything out and leave no obvious trace.
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Looks good to me.
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It's looking just fabulous. Great composition.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Well whatever you're doing, the painting looks good - I have trouble painting in this heat too, even though I think it's a shade cooler than it was. I do find the flow improver a better bet than retarder, on the whole - mine is the Daler-Rowney Flow Enhancer: excellent for use with Cryla and System 3 acrylics, and it works with other brands too. (And while I bought it a year ago, so hope they've not changed it, it also came in a nice glass bottle, not the ever-present plastic which I so hate.)