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one who sees

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05/03/2007 10:03 AM	Alert
*i thought it might be convienent to put ideas,questions,answers and tips in one spot...instead of mucking up threads with images in them...* *i will toss out a few of my hints that haved worked really well for me..* a piece of craft felt...four for a dollar for a twelve by twelve piece,cut into small pieces, two x two?....to gently wipe across a surface that is refusing more cp layers...the touch is a light one but something you pick up easily.. *it just barely roughs the surface, nearly unseen...and permits more layers...the process can be repeated as well..* battery operated sharpener...and i use a very inexpensive one, but this will save your pencils....too many times irregular pressure when turning the hand held one will create problems, broken cores,snapped tips, and ridges.. sanding blocks i use to fix the tip if i need it...sometimes i want a slightly rounded sharp tip, other times i might want it flat on one side of the nib...easily done with a lil sanding block, those sponge things covered in different grades of sand paper..very inexpenisve..or you can use the lil sandpaper stick that some charcoal kits supply.. *tackle boxes and serving trays...* *i keep my cps in a tackle box...the top tray does fit pencils, but i can keep other useful items up there too, my sanding block,felt, erasers ect...* the serving tray i use when i am working on a piece...there is nothing worse than trying to find a pencil in a box, sifting around hopelessly looking for one color....and? if your not gently searching you could be damaging your cps!..dont drop cps! you can shatter the cores! or snap them. a piece of clear acetate under your hand will help keep the oils off the surface of your paper, you dont want any oil from you hands on your paper, this can alter the way the cp will cover that area.. more to come later...

~I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it~ Vincent Van Gogh www.bettyannlemist.com

one who sees

Posts:508

05/07/2007 7:41 AM	Alert
never brush off color bits with your hand.........always use a piece of felt,cloth or soft paint brush to flick the bits away....otherwise you chance creating a color streak on your clean paper..... consider working verticle...attaching your paper to a art clip board and then attaching that to an easel that will securely hold your piece....working verticle helps your work not be distorted by drawing on a sheet laid flat or low angle.....the distortion,foreshortening, can show up in your work when you finally do hold it verticle..... i have this problem, and it completely cures it....no more slanted images....because when taught penmenship, cursive writing...we were forced to slant everything, it affects my work if i try to work flat....eeek...knowing ones limitations is a way to overcome them..eh?

~I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it~ Vincent Van Gogh www.bettyannlemist.com

one who sees

Posts:508

05/15/2007 9:03 AM	Alert
dont drop your pencils! it could cause the core to break, only to find that when you sharpen em you cant get them to a point because they keep breaking off... never blow bits of color pieces off your work!...inadvertently you could eh.....blow a bit of moisture and end up with a drop on your work.....

~I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it~ Vincent Van Gogh www.bettyannlemist.com

one who sees

Posts:508

01/11/2008 6:09 PM	Alert
this thread was begun awhile ago....but occassionally i will think up something else, or find out something else that might help someone else...~grin~ i think, if you heat up the nib by quickly working it on a scrap paper, then begin to apply your nib to your work? the wax warms...and spreads a bit more effectively!...this is especially helpful when you have twenty odd plus layers of color down, and its beginning to get a bit tricky with each additional layer... also? many say only use a sharp tip....i tend to think it depends on what stage of color application your on..... and what type of paper surface too.... near the end...having a smoothed edged nib is better than a sharp point...it lays the color ontop not cut into the previous layers.... but there are times with texture and detail you will want to ~cut~ into the waxy layers....but choose to do that towards the end when you know exactly where you want to add that

~I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it~ Vincent Van Gogh www.bettyannlemist.com

one who sees

Posts:508

01/11/2008 6:11 PM	Alert
i used to keep my pencils in a tackle box.....but not anymore...it was too hard to search through the pencils.......now i keep them in a large open serving tray, the edge of the tray keeps the pencils in, but yet gives me complete access to all of them at a glance....i just need to find another much larger serving tray now! mmmm i dont think they make em any bigger!

~I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it~ Vincent Van Gogh www.bettyannlemist.com

gene
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01/16/2008 8:16 AM	Alert
As I said in the posting of your fish...............get busy on your book. You are a natural teacher, as well as a great painter................Gene

mikec@pols

Posts:763

01/24/2008 4:42 AM	Alert
I agree with Gene! And, thank you for all of the pointers...or maybe I should I say 'nibs' ;-) Mike

"You either grow or regress...nothing stays the same...." (unknown) "A man may fall several times in life, but he is not a failure until he says that he was pushed..." www.portraitsoflifestudio.com

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