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Eric
| | Posted on Sunday, October 9, 2005 - 8:48 pm: |  |
Yeah, I like the big tubes. It's more conducive to not being stingy with paint. |
Robert
| | Posted on Saturday, October 8, 2005 - 12:26 am: | |
I know a lot of people who frequent this group like Davinci/American Journey and am not trying to put anyone's preference down, by the way, just sharing my own personal take -- but I know lots of great art gets made with these paints. |
Robert
| | Posted on Friday, October 7, 2005 - 4:37 pm: | |
BTW--I have leaned not to trust recommendations from others, even artists in print. It has been a very expensive lesson. |
Robert
| | Posted on Friday, October 7, 2005 - 4:34 pm: | |
Since you asked--
I have certainly paid good money to give them a fair shake. The colors I use in that brand seemed uniformly chaulky and opaque. Their pthalo (joe's) green was the only one I didn't discard after one squirt. But it's all preference. I just have gotten use to buttery, smooth, transparent, not chaulky paints (W/N, Maimeriblue, daler-rowney, holbein, and rembrandt all have preferable consistencies for me). There is a reason, I bet, they sell such big tubes so cheaply. There's probably not much more actual pigment in one of their 37mm tubes than in a 15mm standard tube. I really would probably give up painting if forced to use those paints. But that's just me. To each his own. |
Eric
| | Posted on Friday, October 7, 2005 - 1:42 pm: | |
I noticed in the recent "Artist's" magazine, someone (I forget the author) wrote a favorable review of DaVinci watercolors. Just thought I'd mention it since some have criticized the watercolors here in the past. Personally, I use them and like them. They've also added several new colors. |
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