Is it Just Me?

[Ritual]

@DR
I only have one pot... I guess I\'m dirty... :innocent:

However, I have thought about having two pots for that very reason. Perhaps it\'s time to put this in practice...

 

[Dragonsreach]

Well it works for me.
But that\'s not saying a lot.

 

[Klute]

I rinse the brush very frquently.
I use a medicine shringe for clean mixing water.
I work in colour blocks.Skin first then inner clothes by colour,working out.
Never mix metallics and non metallics in the same session.
Like Becca my paint is always very thin so a solid uniform undercoat is essential.Always touch up before the basecoat goes on.
Thats why I finish each colour before moving to the next.Would take forever going back and forth re priming.

 

[Drake Farstrider]

@ Dragonsreach So was it wierd to keep track of doing something while you paint that you don\'t normally think about?

I think I normally dip brush in paint, paint, dip in paint again, paint, rinse off brush, lick my brush to make sure I have good point and then repeat. If I am wet blending I don\'t think I rinse as often, I only rinse when I notice the brush getting gunked up.

I only keep 1 pot while I paint, I may have to try the 2 pot method.

@ Ritual Its always interesting to see the different methods people use while painting. I think the general concensous on this site would be to thin down your paints prior to painting.

 

[Itchy]

On the thinning your paint topic, my metals are all enamile paints. How do you kind folk thin those? Pinesol maybe???

 

[TAB Studio]

I have never worked with enamels thus no help. We have the empty reaper bottles fill with magic was to add to paint, this works well for us we were using syringes but the control of amount was not as good with them and the floor wax tends to clog them.

 

[monolith]

@ Ritual:

You only use one jar of water and you\'re ranked what, 127th? EEP!

I\'ve always got 2 glasses of water in front of me, one big one for rinsing out my brush, one small one full of distilled water, which my mother scores for me, what with her being a laboratory technician and all. The distilled water is for thinning of paints. There\'s all manner of minerals and whatnot in regular tap water, and it can sometimes give paint a chalky finish.

I\'m big on thinning paints down. A lot if I\'m layering/feathering, just a little if I\'m wet blending. I love acrylic retarder medium.

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
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?

Yes.
One cup of clean distilled water with a rubber bulb dropper from chem lab to transfer the water to the pallet.
One cup of tap water to rinse the brushes in. I always use the same cup and don\'t wash it so it has a very thick brown crust on the bottom.
(oh I don\'t always use the same cup, I have a different cup with a shiny gray crust I use for rinsing brushes after painting with metallics)

 

[dauber22]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach

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?

Always, always, always A habit I picked up from doing watercolors where it can be ultra important to use CLEAN water.

I suppose you could say I use 3 pots if you count the occassional errant brush-rinse in my (coffee, water, tea, current beverage of choice)

 

[absolutrudy]

I\'m just as bad

For me its the fact that a mini has to look perfect in my mind, which is beyond my actual skill level, so I consistently start over a certain area, or throw it back into the stripping jar altogeather. Needless to say, I don\' t finish to many figures in the span of 6 months.