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womanofthehills

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9. Actually, that happened to my dad

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Sun Sep 22, 2019, 05:23 PM

Sep 2019

He was a commercial artist and after he cleaned his brushes, he would but the brushes in his mouth for his saliva to make a point on the brush. They cut out a sliver of his tongue making his tongue much shorter. He lived five yrs after that till the cancer spread. When I was a kid I used copy him by doing that but luckily I didn’t do it for too long.

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Is there an oil vs. acrylic snobbery? [View all] bif Sep 2019 OP

Depends on what you want to do. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #1

Try retarder medium and/or neo megilp. Also cover your pallet with foil overnight... brush Sep 2019 #5

i think it is a part of the artist as hero syndrome. mopinko Sep 2019 #2

Yes. Important info. There is also the story, maybe apocryphal, of the artist who died... brush Sep 2019 #4

i'm sure it has happened to many. clay artists poison themselves mopinko Sep 2019 #6

Actually, that happened to my dad womanofthehills Sep 2019 #9

At some point you might want more texture than you normally get from quick drying... brush Sep 2019 #3

When I was studying back in the 70s there was definitely oil snobbery. Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2019 #7

Oils have a greater transparency LunaSea Sep 2019 #8

There are no hard fast rules ... Silver1 Sep 2019 #10