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Painting Materials & Techniques: Lefranc and Bourgeois 'Flemish' Mediums

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Painting Materials and Techniques. Some thoughts and insight on my methods. Lefranc and Bourgeois 'Flemish' Mediums. As a gift, I received two glazing mediums by Lefranc and Bourgeois. tantalisingly entitled. Having tried out these mediums on my 'Still Life with Apples'. Painting, here are my early conclusions. Again, I reverted to a flat 'brights' brush to scumble paint into the surface. Firstly, the finished painting has a high gloss finish, that seems very resilient and won;t need varnishing. Undernea...

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Painting Materials & Techniques: Painting on Copper

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Painting Materials and Techniques. Some thoughts and insight on my methods. From my limited exerience, I have found copper to be a beautiful surface to work on. My personal choice so far has been to use copper etching plates at 1.6 mmm gauge from Lawrence Art Supplies. Given that they are pretty heavy, the size should be kept fairly small - (I have gone no bigger than 12 inches). Below is an outline of my first experience in preparing a sheet of copper. If you enjoyed this post. Back to home page.

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Painting Materials & Techniques: My Camera Lucida

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Painting Materials and Techniques. Some thoughts and insight on my methods. For anyone not already aware, the. Is a visual aid that enables an artist to 'view' both the subject and the paper at the same time. When used accurately, the subject will be superimposed as a ghostly, transparent image directly over the paper - and can therefore be traced. Well, the downside is that they are (in my view) devilishly difficult to use! So how does it work? More details can be found in these articles. I have not yet...

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Painting Materials & Techniques: Working with tonal underpaintings

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Painting Materials and Techniques. Some thoughts and insight on my methods. Working with tonal underpaintings. Personal journey of discovery. In an attempt to honour the '. Rule, I would usually start out with slightly thinned paint for stage one, then raw tubed paint for stage two, and finally adding a little extra linseed oil for any further work. My favoured style at the time was highly coloured and probably leaning closer to pop art than anything else, as can be seen in these examples. This exercise ...

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Susan Flockhart Paintings and Fine Art: Thank you for visiting

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Susan Flockhart Paintings and Fine Art. Thank you for visiting. I hope you have enjoyed your visit. Please feel free to leave comments or ask questions. These are really good, Sue. I like the way you're still experimenting with different styles. Thought the top one (Twickenham, view of the Thames) was a photo at first - it's very lifelike. 8 January 2007 at 10:01. Thanks for visiting my blog Sue- nice work here I really like the high heels - very dramtic- Tom. 18 January 2007 at 04:22. I like Winter Sky ...

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Painting Materials & Techniques: W.F. Martin's Glazing Mediums

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Painting Materials and Techniques. Some thoughts and insight on my methods. WF Martin's Glazing Mediums. Some time ago I read an online article entitled. By William Martin at wetcanvas.com. In this article he demonstrates the stages of a highly realistic still life painting, using 3 separate glaze mediums at different stages. I was inspired enough to want to try out these glaze mediums for myself (see 'Still Life with Aubergine'. And 'Still Life with Books'. Here are my initial findings. 1 part Stand Oil.

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Painting Materials & Techniques: David Cranswick's Glazing Medium ('Liquid Glass')

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Painting Materials and Techniques. Some thoughts and insight on my methods. David Cranswick's Glazing Medium ('Liquid Glass'). This is my most tried and trusted glazing medium to date, and the one used for most of my paintings in the last few years. It is known as 'liquid glass' and I have watched David Cranswick preparing it in a rather alchemical manner, using his secret recipe. One benefit of this medium is that it gives a nice level of translucency and gloss to each layer, without being overly shiny&...