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Seems even with an easel I'll always be a floor sitter.
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Oh I like it Lucy - the tongue I mean! I hope you cover that lovely floor up before starting to paint but I don't know how you could do it on the floor (painting I mean:blush:) But then I think you are a lot younger than me. I like to sit at a table, I don't like an easel, I find it too awkward. Happy painting:)
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Who is "BF" Lucy? My opinion is that the tongue makes it just as it is. Go with your own instincts.
I use table easels Syd, although they are just basic ones. I even us them with my fibre art as it gives me the most comfortable position to work. By the way, you are not alone Margaret, it has been a long time since I have been able to lower my bottom onto the floor.
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Hi there! BF is my boyfriend - who has never shown any creative flair so I tend to ignore what he says :D
I'm pretty tough on the floor and then just clean it all afterwards. In terms of sitting on the floor, I just seem to be able to be more precise with my brushstrokes in that position for some reason. I tried a standing easel and found I felt like I didn't have as much control. And my table easel doesn't seem to hold things 100% securely, and is too small for this one.
I've already changed the background colour to something more neutral as I felt it was dictating the colours I chose and just didn't feel right. I'll post another photo once my phone has charged.
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Ignore BF on this occasion. We want the tongue.....
I can't get comfortable on the floor - too much pressure on the arthritic joints; and then I can't get up again. I suppose a snag with it is that it's a bit difficult to get an overall view, maybe? But whatever works for you is the right way.
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Here we go then...started with the body on the original colour background, but wasn't really happy with it. Moved on to the ear and decided to go brighter and did like it, but not with the peachey background colour, hence the more neutral background. Now I am feeling a bit better about it and will carry on with the rest in variations of pinks/oranges/purples.
One question though, to paint over the torso, can I paint straight over the existing colours (acrylic) or is it better to paint it out white/put a thinnish white wash over it?
Sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it doesn't, this is a 'doesn't' - hopefully it'll be worth it in the end though.
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Good question that - I've done both, and actually I'm working on an acrylic now (a rare commission!) in which I've cut around shapes with a white acrylic 'gesso' intending to paint over it later.
My problem with that is basically that you need a fair thickness of gesso in order to conceal/cover that which lies underneath - and if you apply it, it will leave ridges in the thickness of the paint, because you can't apply it too thinly or the previous coats will ghost through. So it would have been better if I'd got the damn' shapes right in the first place.... But I didn't.
In this case, I'd paint over in fresh colour rather than gesso it out, I think, because your lines and shapes aren't wrong, you just want to modify the colour, and you might get some very interesting results by glazing, perhaps adding a little Zinc white to the glazes. But you've got the choice and should play it be ear.
Or tongue.
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Syd I don't have a table easel but I do have a board which is angled with a piece of wood, I find this is my most comfortable way of working and since I treated myself to a daylight lamp I can carry on painting when the light fades.
Lucy, your cow is looking fab! I prefer the new colour background.
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I think the secret of having control at the easel is to draw with your shoulder and elbow rather than the wrist. I draw my best freehand straight lines at standing at an easel. For finer detail it is best to have your hand or elbow resting on something, but it does not matter if it is a mail stick or the table or your knee. Each to their own. Best of luck to anyone painting on the floor. I couldn't do it as I find it too paintful on my aged knees.
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