Diluted Paint Much Better Than Pencil for Sketching!
Dr. Slick
I forgot to thank this group for the very simple,
but effective tip of using oil paints diluted with
turpentine for the initial sketch for a painting,
instead of using pencil.
MUCH better and cleaner, and easy to wipe off
mistakes with a rag at the early stages.
Much better than smearing all that graphite
around! Yeachh!
And the next best thing was the suggestion to
erase as much of the original pencil lines as possible,
leaving only a light outline of what you need to see.
This was best done with a kneaded eraser.
Again, thanks folks!
I'll be posting this new stuff soon hopefully!
Slick
Jeff Wilson
Doesn't smudge or bleed. Of course, pick a pencil that is inert to
your solvent. I paint in Acrylic so use a "photo" blue. Tried a
watercolor pencil once. Didn't realized that it really was watercolor!
Oops!
Dr. Slick wrote:
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Jeff Wilson
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bruin70
use turp to clean.
Ami Tour
says...
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>x-no-archive: yes
>As a matter of interest, "turps" = turpentine or
>turpentine substitute?
I would never use turpentine as a brush cleaner,
or as a 'substitute' for paint thinner, aka: mineral
spirits. In fact, as often stated here, I use
turpentine ONLY for dissolving damar crystals.
I use mineral spirits otherwise.
And if you want a really good 'cleaner' for
final cleanup, that won't gum, try one of the
brands of "waterless hand cleaner" sold in
automotive departments, and paint stores. I often
have a hard time getting all the polyurethane
varnish out of a brush using only mineral spirits,
but a final cleaning in the hand cleaner, followed
by warm water rinsing, leaves my expensive brushes as
good as new.
Dr. Slick
Well, to be technically correct, I've been using
Turpenoid, a petroleum distillate mixture, which is
supposedly good for either thinning oil paints or
cleaning them.
Slick