Art School Introduction
Erase with a shammie (chamois) cloth (used for drying cars) save eraser for detail.
Water color is duller than ink but every brush stroke of ink shows up.
You can make a water color block by applying rubber cement to three sides of an ordinary tablet; leave thumb slot.
You can draw on a scratch board by covering dark mat board with a thin layer of chalk or gesso. Then scratch to get lines.
If you're oil painting with "masonite", it must be untempered. When sized, water gesso down for smoothness, or sand it if you can.
If you use acrylic molding paste, remember it shrinks. Let it dry a bit.
Glazing: acrylics dry a little bit darker. Glaze makes like the sun.
Spray from trigger bottles or use a toothbrush.
Long steel ruler for cutting.
Don't forget you need a drawing board.
Fixative is imperative. Tracing paper is useful.
You need a big portfolio to save your artwork.
Oh, by the way, when you're typing and trying to write something inspirational, don't look at the keys. That spoils it all.
Recommended books (if you can afford them), "The Materials of the Artist" by Max Doerner, "The Painter's Companion" by Reid Kay, "The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques" by Ralph Meyer.
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If you can't do it right, do something else. You're in the wrong line of work.
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Art is one of those things
humans do that is beyond themselves.
Possibly the same applies to elephant artists. Maybe chimps and bower
birds.
Definitely wasp artists, and they can see ultraviolet.
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