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SUBJECT: Re: Watercolor vs. Gouache
*** Unknown author:
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Watercolour paints can be used for any subject or non-objective paintings.
It is possible to apply as many as 6 glazes or layers with watercolour
and achieve the intensity of gouache. As it flows more freely than
gouache, I find it easier to use.
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*** FotoDave:
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Ah, I am looking for information like this.
I guess I didn't explain my application in my original post. The reason is
because I am not asking the question for painting purposes. I do paint and am
familiar with using gouache and watercolor.
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*** mv:
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That works almost everywhere you see or hear "vs".
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Yes, and arrange them on a round plate. Arranging colors in a line on the
regular watercolor palettes doesn't make sense to me. Colors make a wheel.
Simplification reduces deliberation. I use only Rose Madder, Aureolin, and
Cobalt Blue except for an occasional exception. With just a few pigments you
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SUBJECT: beginner seeking advice
*** Marie:
A little while back I posted a message seeking advice about wanting
to go back to some kind of art as I used to do in my teenage years.
Unfortunately, I've been without a computer since then and to my
disappointment the answers to my message are no longer available on my
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*** Ron Thomas:
Well Marie,
<BR>That sounds a lot like me. I went back to college at age 49 and
began taking nothing but art classes.
<BR>Here at our local junior college we have an excellant art department,
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*** William O. Barrett:
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My overly simpostic answer is that you just do SOMETHING. Stop
worrying. Just do it. Take a class, start doing pencil drawings, and
so on. You'll soon discover your old abilities and you'll also probably
gain insight into where to go in teh future. Learn by doing. We can't
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SUBJECT: Archive Update: Leighton, Delaroche and Godward are now online!
*** Iian Neill:
Members of Fine Art,
I have uploaded all of my collection of Paul Delaroche, Lord Frederick
Leighton and John William Godward, today. The Delaroche and Leighton pictures
are all encoded into gallery-format, and I am about three-quarters of the way
through Godward's ouevre. Leighton has about thirteen pages, Delaroche three,
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*** Akilli:
Congratulations on your site; it should be required viewing for anyone
who deems themselves an artist, or who has such aspirations. The works, which I
have still only viewed in some small part are truly humbling; one can learn an
enormous amount from the arsenal of tricks these maligned talents amassed.
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*** G*rd*n:
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One of the tasks of "postmodernism" is said to be the
recovery of the neglected or forgotten past; certainly
Gerome and Bouguereau are interesting members of that
category. (And by noticing or imitating them, one could
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SUBJECT: Is cave painting art?
*** jhagan:
Everyone runs about proclaiming recently discovered squiggles on cliff walls
'art'. I wonder what Rembrant would have said?
The 'Oxford' says art is a skill that demands the exercise of the mind and
the imagination. A carpenter or a stone mason can be apprenticed and learn a
skill. To contend that Adam or Hepplewhite knew nothing about dovetail joints
would be like saying Wright knew nothing about cantilevers. True art, the
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*** Iian Neill:
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Rembrandt would have regarded it as the art of barbarians, probably. And
technologically/culturally speaking, he wouldn't have been incorrect.
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So far as I know, cave painting was primarily intended to have magical
significance. It was believed (so historians tell us) that by painting the images
of animals, the cavemen had some kind of "hold" over them. I do not find this too
surprising, as art has almost always developed with - and in the service of -
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*** Larry Seiler:
The making of art like the use of words is symbolic.....scribblings that we
have assigned meaning to. Such symbols made had meaning for the one
putting it upon the wall. It served as a means to also communicate.
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SUBJECT: Hogan on Basquiat
*** Aidan Campbell:
Anybody read Phoebe Hoban's new book on Jean-Michel Basquiat yet? Has
she got it right?
*** Brother Alphabet:
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If she describes him as a tokenesque cardboard-box-living drug-addicted
talentless warhol-boot-licker, she's probably got it right.
"I paint what I think, not what I see..." - Pablo Picasso
"You're not the boss of me!..." - J. A. Hutto (Pre age 3)
http://www2.msstate.edu/~jah10 + ja...@ra.msstate.edu
*** Mattison:
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Warhol...found B not the other way around...study your history and his
dealer was a drug dealer.
Sad really.
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