08-15-2010, 06:18 PM
Gary ... I'm with Mister C. N. Nutbar on this one ... This is aready one fantastic model. I have every expectation that it will be mind bending when complete!
Just a question or three, though ...
Are all of the paints that you have been using of the acrylic craft variety, even for the colored washes?
Have any of your washes been of the alcohol/india ink variety? Like maybe the black one?
If so, have you found the alcohol/india ink washes to dry with a high sheen? (Yes, I know ... Dullcoat fixes that. I was just wondering, as I have never used the ink wash technique before and wondered If the india ink (Pelikan) i used was too high quality artist's ink and therefore left this high sheen or if it was because the alcohol that I used was of the high quality, completely denatured, Formula 19, 190 proof variety alcohol.)
Just wondering. :geek:
... And now, since this took so long to type out due to my soon-to-be-replaced double-debouncing keyboard, I see that you have started using powders ... and suddenly, information is randomly retrieved from lost segments on the cranial hard drive ...
Artist's Tip: Pastel chalks powdered by "shaving" with an industrial (single edge) razor blade, with a pinch of baby powder added and stirred into it makes the pastels "blend" more smoothly with no streaks (on paper) and less likely to smear prior to "fixing." My best guess is that they would stick to surfaces better as well due to the talc in the baby powder.
Just a question or three, though ...
Are all of the paints that you have been using of the acrylic craft variety, even for the colored washes?
Have any of your washes been of the alcohol/india ink variety? Like maybe the black one?
If so, have you found the alcohol/india ink washes to dry with a high sheen? (Yes, I know ... Dullcoat fixes that. I was just wondering, as I have never used the ink wash technique before and wondered If the india ink (Pelikan) i used was too high quality artist's ink and therefore left this high sheen or if it was because the alcohol that I used was of the high quality, completely denatured, Formula 19, 190 proof variety alcohol.)
Just wondering. :geek:
... And now, since this took so long to type out due to my soon-to-be-replaced double-debouncing keyboard, I see that you have started using powders ... and suddenly, information is randomly retrieved from lost segments on the cranial hard drive ...
Artist's Tip: Pastel chalks powdered by "shaving" with an industrial (single edge) razor blade, with a pinch of baby powder added and stirred into it makes the pastels "blend" more smoothly with no streaks (on paper) and less likely to smear prior to "fixing." My best guess is that they would stick to surfaces better as well due to the talc in the baby powder.
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln