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Monday 27 February 2012
Monday ramble a few pictures, you know type of thing.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
I have found that, for acrylics, the little trial sets from "The Works" are pretty good. may be worth a try with the watercolour tubes. also be very careful of colours of monitors/ printers. Unless you have them colour calibrated they are not true to what you saw. Also they are transmitted light, your picture is reflected.
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John
Michael,
ReplyDeleteThis John is not me.
John I only do watercolour and pencil sketches as I don’t get much time and all the equipment has to fit in my pocket.
ReplyDeletePaint wise I am pretty fussy and buy artist’s quality paint in tubes which I squirt into the compartments of my paint box. Even if you buy the most expensive sets, over £50 for a small set of about 12 different colours, you wouldn’t get the expensive colours included.
As an example of what I mean JWM Turner mainly used cobalt blue, rose madder and yellow ochre and lemon yellow. Yellow ochre and lemon yellow is cheap and comes in all the sets, rose madder and cobalt blue contain expensive pigments and so come in none of the sets. So no matter what set you bought, you really wouldn’t stand a chance of doing a Thanet Turner sky watercolour.
Click on the link for more of an explanation http://thanetonline.blogspot.com/2012/01/turner-contemporary-margate-last-chance.html
I do use the Boldmere field sketch book the works sell, the £2.99 one with the elastic on it, very good value.
John I realise you are not John