By Paul Gauguin
Revealing records, reprinted from infrequent, restricted version, throw a lot mild at the painter's internal existence, his tumultuous dating with van Gogh, reviews of Degas, Monet, and different artists; hatred of hypocrisy and sham, lifestyles within the Marquesas Islands, even more. 27 full-page illustrations via Gauguin. Preface through Emil Gauguin.
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Preparing boards and canvases Primed painting surfaces come prepared for you, but raw surfaces need a surface preparation (though experimental artists even skip the priming and work with the very absorbent surface, thus staining it. ) The most common primer, or ground, is gesso. Gesso (pronounced jess-oh) is a combination of acrylic polymer emulsion, calcium carbonate, and Titanium White (as the coloring agent). It’s a liquid ground for preparing a surface to accept paint or gilding (applying gold-leaf, as in gold-leaf frames, for example).
Figure 2-10: Repair a brush with gum arabic. If you can’t save your brush, you can take scissors and snip it into a really sparse brush perfect for painting wonderful grasses and hairs on animals. Knowing when it’s time for a new brush You know you need to replace your brush when ߜ The round point on your brush can’t make fine line details. Demote it to a scrub brush and buy a new one with a sharp tip. ߜ You forget the brush in the water overnight and the bristles have a permanent L shape. ߜ The brush continues to shed hairs and drive you nuts.
The brush continues to shed hairs and drive you nuts. Toss these over-the-hill brushes in a drawer for a recycle project and splurge to get one that does not frustrate you. Chapter 2: Setting Up Supplies: Brushes, Surfaces, and Palettes Picking and Prepping Common Paint Surfaces A fancy name for what you paint on is substrate. For most painting needs, you want a flat, fine-art surface to paint on — typically paper or canvas. Because acrylic paint uses water, a regular old plain paper substrate buckles when wet.