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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Denise - good point; the paint needs to be dry; used with acrylic though, I can imagine it clinging to the clingfilm so affectionately that it rips the paper when the film is removed.  But then - I haven't done it. Helen's mum has - any chance of seeing the results? 

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The basic idea as described above ,  reminds me of  "Tonking " as demonstrated by Professor Tonk of the RA ( ?) . I saw it being used on oil paint by Tom Keating , using a piece of a decent broadsheet newspaper , probably The Telegraph .  I seem to remember it produced a result but was probably expensive on paint .  I'm in favour of experimentation so how about kitchen foil , crinkled up and flattened out again , before laying down (onto painting I mean ). Steve

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the rising prices of watercolour paints got me into thinking of trying to find cheaper ones ,,even yellow ochre is dearer than raw siena , yet I think most of the past English watercolorist used it,   ok so I see sennellier selling 21 ml colours around half  the price of w x n   so I tried it,,, but the pan stayed soft a couple of days ...brush sticking in it ......ok I am getting round to it,  we all know oils and acrylics  can add light on dark so I thought lets try it 

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so here we wash out our lighter colour tree 

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now we try adding burnt umber to a umber winser blue mix for our front tree

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and another  attempt at forward tree.              ochre being a more opaque  colour  ,,,,,,,,,  yes maybe that the reason 
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Peter Smith

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Thanks Helen, that makes much more sense and I'll give it a try.
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Helen Martell

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Peter, (and in reply to Robert), here’s a close up of one of my mums acrylic pictures (a very early one..so a bit rough and ready!). But it does show the texture that you can get. She did a multi coloured base, then a light colour for the cling-film effect. As a side note, I’ve played with similar effects simply scrunching up some kitchen roll (not too scrunched, then lifting off wet paint with that. (Paint not as thin as the cling film method, and still wet).  Oh, and also (for lifting off wet paint), pressing some bubble wrap onto the canvas.

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Robert Jones, NAPA

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I see the potential; and to Stephen, yes, crumpled kitchen foil is sometimes used for particular effects.  I am quite resistant to the use of these things, probably stuck in the mud; on the other hand (I seem to say that SO often!  Must think of a different way of putting it) I have often used a credit card, or painting knife, or a little pen-knife, and quite often my finger-nails, especially with watercolour - as I use lead white oil paint, though, I am a bit more careful about finger-nail use. Alan Owen - a) good to see you back, and b) washing out, and then repainting with fresh/different colour, is not a technique I've used, but I bet I will now.  I'd like to see you giving demos in the watercolour section like this - on prices..... well, everything is getting more expensive, but there are some savings I don't think it makes sense to make; eg, cadmium paints and cobalts are always going to be pricey, nothing we can do about it; but I wouldn't want the awful struggle with cheap paint substitutes.  How about Cotman paints, though?  They're still pretty reasonably priced, as is the Daler-Rowney basic range - it's the price of paper that troubles me a bit: my favourite brands are all expensive, but here's the snag: once you've used the best paper, and the best paint you can get, you're VERY reluctant to go back to second or third best.....  And anyway, you deserve the best. 
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This is my second attempt: I painted the basic rocks using quite thick acrylic, covered it with clingfilm and left it for sixteen hours. When I peeled it off there was quite a lot of texture; the paint was still soft but an hour later it had dried completely. Then I painted in a rough background: It looked OK so I finished it off.....I'm not trying to create great art, I just want to see how well the technique works for me.  There is certainly texture there but where or not it looks better than if I'd simply painted the rocks I'm not sure. It's an A2 sized canvas by the way. Finally I'm giving Helen's technique a try: I painted the basic rocks in dark brown and let it dry. Then I put on a coat of very wet paint in lighter shades: The clingfilm was pressed into this and now I've got to leave it to dry. Watch this space! Peter
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