Good advice:
The other day I caught myself ignoring the good advice which I always give to others.
Namely:
Don’t take things on blind trust, but always check facts for yourself.
So I’d been told it was impossible to get a particular glass paint.
Category Archives: Tracing
How To Trace Well Even When It’s Hot
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Common sense answers:
Tracing when it’s hot is far more difficult than in the cold because your paint is always drying out. So the first thing is of course, you look around for common sense answers to this problem.
Of course:
- You moisten your lump from time to time.
- You also keep it covered.
- And you do other things like you might use rubber stickers, or get a cooler light, use air-conditioning, or even remove your palette from the light-box altogether.
Is there something I add to our paint to slow down the speed with which it dries?
Your Tracing Brush, the Ballpoint Pen, and Zero-Gravity
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It is our strength – your strength and mine – that we learn from our experiences. But this can also be our weakness: we are both blessed and cursed when we pick up a tracing brush.
Blessed – because we already know to grip it like a pen.
Cursed – because we expect it to function like a pen.
And it doesn’t.
Or so I thought until I learned about the pens which astronauts use to write in zero-gravity space: I’ve just discovered a helpful similarity …
How to Hold a Tracing Brush
Video demonstration
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At best we’re used to hard-nosed pens and pencils. At worst we always use a keyboard or a touch-screen on our smart-phone. That’s why I owe you this reminder about how to hold your tracing brush. You’ll also find a very helpful video, so you see exactly what I mean.