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St Monins Pier - take 2
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Lots of stuff out there, yes - Liquitex has a wide range of gels and pastes, so have Golden acrylics, W & N, and maybe Daler-Rowney, though I've no memory of encountering much beyond their texture paste: which, if good enough for Alwyn Crawshaw, is easily good enough for me.
If I say, as I'm about to, that I don't use any of it - it's no criticism of anyone who does. All the same, I prefer effects that can be obtained with pigment - brush or painting-knife, plus heavy-bodied paint (like Cryla in acrylic, or thick oil paint). To quote Dame Edna, 'am I old fashioned? I think perhaps I am', but these things weren't available when I started out - and I've never got into them.
Even so - I don't know if this painting is acrylic or oil, but while it was primarily developed for acrylic, it can be used under oils as well (or under gouache or watercolour, come to that). My only reservation about it is that you can usually see where someone has used it: but is that a bad thing? I suppose there's a voice somewhere in the back of my mind suggesting that it might be.... and I don't know how to silence it.