[Aquanet] a question that verges on heretical

[artistvalerie at rogers.com]

M Graham is very much my pick.  Thanks Barry for the great hints. Valerie

http://valeriekent.com  

--- On Wed, 11/18/09, Barry Lindley <lindleybd at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Barry Lindley <lindleybd at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Aquanet] a question that verges on heretical
To: "'Patrick Davis'" <peedee at nucleus.com>, "'Aquanet The_digital_Brain'" <aquanet at thedigitalbraintrust.net>
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 1:18 PM




 
 







 



Golden fluid acrylics (I don’t know
about DaVinci – they may be quite different) have a very high pigment
load. They are not just tube acrylics thinned with medium, but can be thinned a
lot. So, if you want them to go further and don’t need great tinting
strength, you can extend them with acrylic medium or glazing fluid – the two
differ some in terms of drying, etc.  If you simply dilute tube acrylics
with medium, you are also diluting the pigment substantially, and it just isn’t
the same. You may find that you aren’t saving money for the same quality
of paint.   

   

There are two approaches I can think of
for the drying problems with tube acrylics: 

   


 If
     you really want to use the acrylics more like watercolor, use a porcelain
     butcher’s tray or something similar, fold up a high quality (Viva,
     e.g.) non-linting paper towel, soak it with water, and lay it across one
     end of the palette.  Squeeze your paint into piles on this, mist from
     time to time, and you can just pull whatever you need out into the mixing
     space and dilute with water for painting.  They will behave similarly
     to regular watercolor, but when dry will not lift easily.  This is
     Charles Harrington’s approach (I don’t know if it is in his
     book; I learned it at a workshop). 


   


 If
     you want to paint thickly with the acrylics, try Golden OPEN
     acrylics.  They dry quite a bit more slowly, and there are special
     mediums which preserve the slow drying. 


   

Incidentally, M.Graham makes very high
quality acrylics, as good as Golden, but less expensive. 

   



 Good luck. 

   

Barry 

   

Barry D.
Lindley

Paintings and Drawings

www.BarryLindleyArt.com 

   



   









From: aquanet-bounces at aquanetart.com
[mailto:aquanet-bounces at aquanetart.com] On
Behalf Of Patrick Davis

Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
12:56 PM

To: Aquanet The_digital_Brain

Subject: [Aquanet] a question that
verges on heretical 



   

Hi, gang.



Altho I am quite happy painting in w/c, I do have an urge to branch into
acrylics as well. I find, however, that the tube acrylics I have dry too
quickly on the palette and are also hard to work with in that they are lumpy. I
have just bought some liquid acrylics, but I am also quite frugal.. (Such a nice
word!) Anyway, can I make my own liquid acrylics successfully  from my old
tube stuff by putting them in a jar with water and acrylic glazing fluid, or am
I just teasing myself? I am trying it, but after sitting several days in a jar
with regular shaking up, I still have a lumpy mixture. (Okay, the acrylics sat
in a jar, not me)



Any suggestions- other than working on my grammar?

Pat 



 



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