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Gah, does anyone else dislike with a passion using lots of white on their PYOs? I’m painting a tobiano, and there seems to be little hairs and specks that got painted into the surface and are noticeable on the white parts. Granted, they are tiny, and painted over, and their outline only seen under very close scrutiny, but things like this bug me. I’m just wondering if I’m alone in this frustration?
I just find it hard to tell where there’s white and where it’s the gypsum… but yeah, if there are speck and stuff, that drives me nuts; I just have to pick it off.
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmlol, I thought I was the only one! I’m painting a blanket appy right now and keep finding tiny specks of stuff I have to carefully pick out each brush stroke!
I usually stay away from painting just white because of the same problems mentioned. Yellow, especially the bright or light, also seem to give me a lot of trouble as well 🙄 .
It’s not just the PYOs. I recently got a Lap from the Windstone Store that has what looks like painted-over dirt in two different spots, both of them on the display side. Needless to say, I am not a happy camper. Will Windstone take this back? 😡
yes.. just email Susie and talk to her about it..
I stay away from flat white.. because it always looks funky.. I use metallic white’s and never seem to have a problem..
of course my paint is usually $2 an ounce compared to the 88 cent ones.. sometimes you get what you pay for
frozendragon wrote:of course my paint is usually $2 an ounce compared to the 88 cent ones.. sometimes you get what you pay for
This is too true 😉 . The more you pay, the less of a headache you’ll have in the long run when it comes to paint. It also pays to make sure if a color is either ‘opaque’ or ‘transparent’. Some brands tell you this or even shows you (Golden brand paints for one) on the bottle or tube 😉 .I have problems with painted in hairs or lumps all the time. It annoys the crap out of me!
But I generally blame my cat for it. Because they are usually cat-hair sized hairs….
I think it’s just that hair in the air (or dirt) settles on the wet paint and gets stuck there. 🙄
yes.. here it’s so dusty.. that you can walk away for 5 min and come back and have dust on stuff..
I’m sure Serenity can attest to that..
I use Golden brand paint as well…I think it’s just that incessant dust seemingly appearing out of thin air too! Argh, lol!
Well, I’m glad to hear I’m not alone; misery loves company =P There’s no way I can pick this stuff out now without wrecking it; it’s imbedded into the surface after like ten coats/layers of white airbrushed on after. By the time I saw it, it was too late. I agree it’s probably gunk in the air that settled and I think is more noticeable on the white surfaces >.< Probably doesn't help I need more coats of white for even coverage than any other color resulting in more layers (and therefore more opportunities) for stuff to get stuck. White is my new nemesis -.-
Anyways, I’m looking forward to your appy, abatos. 🙂
And sorry to hear that, Syn789. As already mentioned, Susie can probably help. I have a brown griffin chick that I got from the store with black dots on it and Windstone was willing to exchange it.
Hmm, I don’t think I’ve ever used a flat white that I can recall…except as a primer. c.c I think I was traumatized by one of my art teachers into avoiding the use of straight black and straight white if possible, since he/she (can’t remember who it was) said those colors never truly occur in nature?! 😀 Not that things aren’t ‘black’ or ‘white’…but when we look at them, we aren’t seeing a plain white or a plain black, so we shouldn’t be using those colors in our paintings (is what I think was actually meant). I think I took that to heart too much. >.>;…
As for specks of dirt in your lighter colors, hm. Best suggestion is to keep your work area as dust-free as possible? I also rinse my PYOs off before I start, then let them dry for a day or so, then make sure there isn’t any dust settled on there with some canned air (which I blow off to the side, so it’s floating away, not onto my desk). =D Nothing is fool-proof, of course…>.>…
Best thing I found to do is to keep my PYOs in my cupboard while they are drying. The cat isn’t allowed in there (she tries though…) so there isn’t hair in there, and it isn’t as dusty as the rest of the apartment.
They dry alot slower, but my dust has been reduced quite a bit.
Speaking of painting… I need to get Colin’s done sometime soon!!! Then start on my keeper… which is apparently my christmas present from my grandmother. She was feeling lazy this year I guess.
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