How to paint fish scales? - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
2012年8月16日 · Just indicate the scales in certain parts, and keep a lot of lights (I didn’t suggest line to line, as my disability would keep me away from that, but you have to do a diligent study of how scales are shaped, how they overlay one another, and how they change sizes, so you can paint your own scales – too much for me, although Yorky’s ...
Painting with seawater? - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
2016年3月22日 · I’m fairly sure the only issues you’d encounter would be those affecting the longevity of the paper- salt, alcohol, heavy metals, rust, pollution, acid, bug attack (from sugar) aren’t compatible with paper fibres.
Oil Painting On Paper - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
2019年3月5日 · Also, I can’t imagine painting on it with oil paints, as it is shiny. To me that says really slick. But I wasn’t using it for that–I was trying it as a sealant on water-soluble paint. The shellac sold ready-made in stores is often expired and won’t work properly. You can make it pretty easily from shellac scales from Kremer and some ...
graphite and brass molds for glass casting
2004年6月24日 · Many years ago when I took glassblowing, I made a mold out of clay for molding hot glass from the furnace (had to fire the clay before using the mold) — it took a large gather of about five pounds of glass to fill it — (it was one side of a full-relief fish, scales and all). It worked fine except for a bit of thermal shock to the mold itself.
Figuring out brushes - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
2015年1月24日 · Animal hair used in brushes is a by-product of the food and fur industries. So, no animals are destroyed for the purpose of brush making. It has superior paint-holding ability because of tiny, microscopic “scales” along the shaft of the hair. Synthetic brushes are man made of either nylon or polyester filaments.
Thalo Blue and how you use it - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
2005年1月6日 · Soon you’ll be asking paint manufacturers and stores for hand-painted colour charts, your thoughts will be consumed by colour wheels, colour spheres, Munsell, CIELAB, swatches, mixing step scales, mixing lines, reflectance curves, Kubelka-Munk, you’ll memorize colour index names and numbers, you’ll be dreaming about naphthols ...
Fluid acrylic pours - cells & lacing - cells & lacing - WetCanvas ...
2016年12月10日 · The hook to their creation is the blooming cells and webbing or lacing effect. Much of it has to do with different viscosity of paint (thinning with water) and how colors react with each other. I have been experimenting endlessly and going through MUCH paint. I can get beautiful cells, but within 15 minutes they disappear.
Acrylic cleanup and pollution reduction? - WetCanvas: Online …
2005年5月31日 · It seems so easy to clean the brushes etc with plain old water, but what about possible water pollution issues? Is there a preferred way of cleaning brushes that keeps you from having to throw dirty paint water down the sink and end up with cadmium yellow fish in the local streams and ponds? Or pthalo blue turtles?
Allergy perhaps to ingredient in acrylics? - WetCanvas: Online …
2018年11月26日 · After a bit of experimenting with small quantities of Golden OPEN acrylic paint in small sessions, one day I decided to go for a large canvas, and spent about 6 hours mixing and painting with larger quantities of paint – about a 1/4 c of paint at a time, in a large daylight basement. Let me back up…
Why do metal tubes work so well at keeping paint fresh?
2019年4月17日 · an aside to the basic problem; the brand of paint matters, since most brands manufacture paints to be combatible within series, drying-wise. i’ve kept a paper palette with mussini out on the porch for weeks, temp +10C to -10C. the series is somewhat regulated with siccative, fast drying, and the only loss was burnt umber.. it only lasted let’s say three days.