Is it Just Me?

[ipaintminis]

ok so we have our brush lickers, or other little quirks that people do when they paint. well i was painting last night (like normal) and i noticed that i may be painting weird (yeah, i know, we all aready knew that blah blah blah ) the point is

do any of you re prime? like I\'ll paint the cloak then go and re prime everything that i accidentally hit so that everything i haven\'t painted is primed. I think it may just be anal retentive but if i don\'t do i feel like the color i put over the spill isn\'t going to cover like the rest and i get all worried. So is that crazy? do any of you all do that?

 

[BanJo]

no, i don\'t do that, but i have another bad habit when painting. i hold my breath and then release it every time i paint details...sounds like im doing naughty stuff!lol

 

[supervike]

reprime??

egads!! are you really that retentive?

I suppose if it was REALLY obvious, I may touch up the primer area again...but you do it EVERY time?

 

[Ritual]

Yep! You\'re crazy!! Totally out of it!!

lol

No, seriously, I can relate to the feeling of having things look neat, although I don\'t re-prime areas that I\'ve accidentally put paint on. Only if I put dark paint on something that\'s going to be extremely bright, like white or something. In other circumstances, however, I can do unnecessary things just to be neat.

 

[Capt spalding]

yup I know a painter that does that, cant be a bad thing, he has three slayer swords!

 

[No Such Agency]

Yes, IPM, I too tend to re-prime areas I glom paint onto in the initial stages. It\'s always best to lay any colour down over an even primer coat so I don\'t think you\'re being too anal retentive. Little things like that can save a big hassle later.

 

[TAB Studio]

I hold my breath also. I only re prime if I am going a lighter color or it is the round robin mini so peeps do not think I am a slob lol

 

[Wolf_Fang]

i hit something on the primer i hit something..... i dont bother going back... unless it needs to be another colour lol

 

[Dragonsreach]

Yep I touch up the primer, especially if it\'s a really difficult colour to cover. An no I don\'t think it\'s retentive, just tidy.
Wish I could say the same for my painting room. Currently the floor has lots of sand from the Scrap Launchers base working it\'s way into the carpet.

 

[sivousplay]

Before I actually apply paint to the \"messed-up\" area, I always re-prime it. Given that my style is so much based on the white shining through the thin coats of paint, if I didn\'t re-prime, it\'d be a real mess.

jim

 

[Itchy]

i do it if i\'m going to be painting it a light color. Say, yellow or white over a white primer with a big black line on it, then i go over the black untill it\'s with the rest of the white (if that made any sense at all).

i used to hold my breathe while cutting on the ban saw at work... but forced myself to stop doing that. Lightheadedness around saws isn\'t a good thinglol.

 

[Klute]

Re-prime.
Every time.

 

[Drake Farstrider]

Nope never considered doing that. I may have to think about it though, as it makes perfect sense. :idea:

Here\'s another question that I thought about the other day. How often do you clean your brush while painting? I realized that no one ever mentioned to me if you should clean it every few dips or... ???

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by Drake Farstrider
Nope never considered doing that. I may have to think about it though, as it makes perfect sense. :idea:

Here\'s another question that I thought about the other day. How often do you clean your brush while painting? I realized that no one ever mentioned to me if you should clean it every few dips or... ???

That\'s a good question and one that made me think about what I do.
And to be honest I\'m not sure.
I know that I rinse thoroughly after each colour and as I change the colour gradients/layers. (I\'ll have to keep track as I paint this afternoon).
I also wash out the brushes properly after every painting session. 10 minutes spent has increased the lifespan of the brushes.

 

[monolith]

I\'m a re-primer. I use black, so that makes it slightly easier to hide overshoots, but for the lysander I just bought, I think it\'s going to have to be white undercoat.

Hmmm. As to washing out my brushes, I try to do it every time I finish that load of paint. I\'ll load the brush, wick away any excess, use it, then wash out the brush. This is important when I\'m wet blending, as the paint on the brush is almost never the same colour as the paint on the pallette once I\'m done.

Here\'s a question I\'d like answered: Do you lay down basecoats for every colour on a model first then work up your highlights on each colour, or do you work like me, getting one area just right before moving on?

 

[Naukhel]

I sometimes do.. primer touch-ups. I have a bottle of FW white acrylic ink, which works very well to cover up boo-boos, and actually works as a base primer, if needed, too.

 

[cadboy]

oi



i must be the odd one out. i don\'t prime my models to begin with - i just blackline all the colour transition areas, and make like a kidnergarten student and try to paint between the lines

 

[Ritual]

@drake
I tend to rinse my brush quite often, but I guess that has a lot to do with my painting method. I don\'t water down my paint that much on the pallette, but keep it thin and nice by having a sufficiently moist brush. That way I can change the consistency of the paint just by changing the amount of water I \'store\' in the brush. Thus, I need to keep the brush clean all the time.

@monolith
I usually finish each area before I start on the next one, just like you. By finsihing one area before moving on, I get ideas about how to continue. I normally have a general idea of how to paint the mini before I start, but I get a lot of ideas while painting as well.

 

[ipaintminis]

i am glad i am not as crazy as i thought

and yes vikey, every single area thats not finished...its tedious, but i\'m a big thin paint user so the first coat is see through so it would show through, not good coverage at all


as for rinsing the brush....about every 2 dips into the same color, because the paint might dry onto the brush. and thats no good. :]

 

[Dragonsreach]

Right, I took note today of what I do and it boils down to the fact that I keep the brush wet before I pick up paint.
So basically the brush is going into the water almost every few brush strokes.

So my question is, does anyone else have two pots of water. One clean one to mix with and one to wash/rinse the brushes in?