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Which medium is the most difficult to use?
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Posted 9 months ago I'd say that the last time I worked in the medium of concrete, it all went to crap. I totally messed up the molding and when I opened it all up, there were cracks and splits all over the place! |
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| Posted 9 months ago The mime medium! Do you know how hard it is to have someone tell your future without using words? |
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| Posted 9 months ago helshawk said: Pretty darn funny! Course, the hotline medium is pretty easy to use, but will cost ya 4 bucks a minute... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T85cOGc8L0 |
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| Posted 9 months ago Encaustic...Even if you warm the surface you only have a short window of opportunity to make it how you want it. |
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| Posted 9 months ago One the serious side, markers are about the hardest thing I've used but still like them tremendously. |
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| Posted 9 months ago JWaddell said: I go along with JW addell with this one. I did a crayon one just to see how it went, and boy you have to paint quickly to say nothing of the dead brushes after using them with this method. |
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| Posted 9 months ago I find oil difficult to work with at times. It is also my favorite medium. I like it that it takes time to dry which gives me the ability to add to the painting the next day and work it in with the existing color. The cleaning off also makes it hard. Sometimes it takes a half hour to get everything all cleaned up and having dry skin, I have to wear gloves when I work with it. It always happens that after I've finished cleaning my brushes, washed my hands as well as my hands and feet, I'll have my coat on and one foot out the door - I'll touch something with wet paint on it and then have to go back to the slop sink. Still I love the medium and it's still my favorite to work in |
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| Posted 9 months ago The one your least inspired by , but still required to use |
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| Posted 9 months ago bodily fluids |
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| Posted 9 months ago (8-P) Very green now.... ewww. Each day is a gift, open it up and play with it! |
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| Posted 9 months ago anything with glue.I've been scraping glue off me like snake skin all day |
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| Posted 9 months ago helengriffin said: turpentine or paint thinner. Even if it's the turpenoid stuff, it still does a number to my skin. I have to wear gloves whenever I use it as I have alot of drynesss on my skin. Canvas stretching is not exactly my favorite activity either. Very time consuming and also taxing on the hands from holding down the pliers. Still the pre-stretched canvases are costly and the quality is not as good. |
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| Posted 9 months ago nathangriffith said: i disagree, spit is often most helpful in the field but i guess it depends on what your tring to accomplish. |
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| Posted 9 months ago oil pastels for me, but I think each person has what they are really good with, and other mediums that are just plain nightmares, and as for body fluids that one guy did a painting of bandids and his own blood. Scaramouche.... in Twilight's Shadow... a Dream... |
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| Posted 9 months ago For me it's the oils. Simply because of the smell of turpentine. |
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| Posted 9 months ago JWaddell said: What exactly is the Encaustic medium? I'm still wondering because I saw a delightful piece at the gallery in the Rowe building at UNCC, and I'd love to be able to do that...although they also used silkscreen and transfer techniques...maybe I'm thinking of something else...In any case! |
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| Posted 9 months ago balawala said: I actually don't mind the smell...It's the waiting that gets me! But it does allow for you to mix and shade the colors and lights and darks...Gives great chiaroscuro too. |
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| Posted 9 months ago Ink spraying (Ralph Steadman style) is hard to control at first because of the way it is applied, the key is to practice the "spray technique" before applying it to the piece. |
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| Posted 9 months ago For me is watercolours,you do your job and some how the painting looks dull,but you get your sicret weapon...the water...you just poor it everywhere on the painting and saddle down to wait the weapon do its job,and then...oh boy.evrything comes to perfection,colours and shades are kike a Gods creation...whoo...unbelievable... |
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| Posted 9 months ago I haven't had the opportunity to work with many different mediums, but the most difficult so far has been oils. I enjoy the results and the flexibility they allow in painting, but man are they a pain in the a**! |
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| Posted 9 months ago JW, you know, I've been reading a lot because of reviews of a show at the Met of Jasper Johns that he gravitated to encaustic exactly because it dries fast. He didn't see that as making it harder, so much as letting him for some works not wait around even as much as for acrylics much less oils. So maybe it's whatever someone needs to do that's important? |
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| Posted 9 months ago helshawk said: that was pretty clever! |
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| Posted 9 months ago Sharpies. I have to use them for caricatures and I HATE them. But it's required... :( |
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| Posted 9 months ago piratehooker108 said: I LOVE SHARPIE. That's my BEST medium, I don't know what you're doing, but I have never gone wrong with those markers. I have a huge stockade of work I do in Sharpies. Go check my pen & ink porfolio. |
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| Posted 9 months ago Watercolors, ah, one of my best again. I'm thinking we should start a thread that has to do with our favorite. |
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| Posted 8 months ago Ugh...charcoal has to be the messiest. |
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| Posted 8 months ago Markers-they are non-forgiving...I like to use them BUT unlike most, you cannot "fix" or "cover up" your MISTAKES if solely using [them]. Markers are not easy...LOL. |
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| Posted 8 months ago Although watercolor is often used by beginners, I find it to less forgiving than oils. I like the way kids can be fearless and just go into it. Sometimes I think painting is just a series of mistakes. I love it. |
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| Posted 7 months ago I have difficulty with using spray adhesives... still havent found a good one.. but super 77 works pretty well |
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| Posted 6 months ago I LOVE encaustic. I found it easy, I must be compatible with wax and I enjoy the process. Oil is the hardest medium for me. |