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welcome back to the studio
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for the intermediate
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and advanced techniques of enamel painting
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I'm going to be using these
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on glaze bittress and Amal paints once again
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and I want to show you a little bit more detail
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about how different mediums can affect the color
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of particularly fugitive colors
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and they tend to be the reds and purples
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so I'm going to take say turquoise and purple red
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and show you the effect on a tile of using
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different mediums
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now with turquoise there's absolutely no problem
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I've got different media labeled along here
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and you can see that there's no change in color at all
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tuckquoise is very stable
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along with
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most of these colors in the sunshine and saradella
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range
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but when it comes to the purple red this one
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which is used in portrait painting
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and is a lovely color to use in any sort of painting
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you can see there's quite a dramatic change
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in many of the media that I've used
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and what I'm looking for is a really steady pink
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like for paraffin for example
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Rosemary oil
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and it's something you probably need to do yourself
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if you get a different medium don't expect it to
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behave in the way that the previous medium
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has behaved you need to do a test
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so for this I would take
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just a little test style like this
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and anchor it with some
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blue tack
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Tiki tack whatever you call it
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and then try something like
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sewing machine medium for example
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this is something
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that the Russian painters use all the time
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it looks yellow it's very very runny
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but it's amazing how much paint it holds when you add
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paint by grinding
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so just going to take a little bit of the purple red
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put it on a tile
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like that just a tiny bit
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that's all it needs for a test
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and I just need some
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paper towel to wipe the palette knife keep that clean
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my spatula
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it's going to have some sewing machine oil
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there just next to it as before
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I don't need to use all of it having
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put that out just put the wash to one side
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and just blend enough and you can see that
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just a little bit
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and you've ground the paint
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which is fine already at 3 25
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mesh
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when I pick it up like that
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it will form a little bit of a lump like toothpaste
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which is ideal for painting from
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because if you make it runny like that
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it's just going to be hopeless
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the color will be really diffuse
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and what you need is intensity of color
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in the mix that you've got
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so I'm going to wipe this section away
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and work from the sewing machine medium here
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so I'm going to take a minitress brush now
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and this is a number one
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here's a zero
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and here's a No. 2 so in that order the 2
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is the largest one I've got these
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tubes on which could be straws as well
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and just pull those off
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and then you can see the brushes
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people think that we paint with one hair of the brush
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no if you did that you just couldn't hold enough paint
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on the brush so it's conical the shape
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and that means that it's bit like a pen
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that the paint is driven down the brush
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to the fine tip
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and there could be just one hair at the very
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tip that you're working
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but that's what makes it such a beautiful brush
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that holds the tip
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if you're testing brushes
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it's really important to make sure that that
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tip is a point
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and hasn't split already
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so
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synthetic brushes are fine as long as they make that
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tip at the end
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so you're going to be using the same medium here
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to wash the brush
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just put that to one side
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and first of all I'm going to put some into the medium
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and the brush is already clean so that's fine
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and then I'm going to roll the brush in
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the paint that I've mixed up
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and transfer across to the test piece
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and it's just going to be a little test like that
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like the line that I did before
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just to show how the paint flows
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and you can see that
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there are kind of little lines within
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because as I bounce the brush up and down
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it's as if there's like
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veins on the leaves I'm leaving behind
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and that's because this paint
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in the medium
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the medium is an open oil
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which means it takes a long time to evaporate
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and therefore
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that's excellent for working pieces like portraits
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where you need to do many many hours on
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the piece before you fire it
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you want it to stay open to accept more paint
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it takes a long long time to dry
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and you can also because it's sewing machine
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oil it means that you can lay down
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quite dense little dots of color
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and they will stay there
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unlike some medium
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other mediums that I'll show you
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say this is just one example
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you can do some pointalism which is very rough here
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but just to give you an idea
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that would have to be
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so fine that you didn't see the dots
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but working quickly
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you get the idea how the sewing machine
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medium works really well for that
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so just wipe off the brush
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and then use zest it for the solvent
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so this is something you've got in your pack
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and just wipe the brush on the tissue and then
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into the zest it so that I've got a clean brush now
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so that goes on there
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and I'll put the same machine medium
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away there with the lid
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now you could make yourself a chart
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to just do tests scientifically really isn't it
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looking at the different media
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down the side here
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and then how they behave along the top
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and how you like them yourself
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so if you've got something like
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the two water based media you'll know that
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Unimedia dries very quickly
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and glycerol which I'm going to be using today
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that takes much longer to dry
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it's more open as a medium
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takes longer less
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evaporation goes on
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and therefore you've got longer time to work it
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and it takes longer to drive off the glycerol
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at the Kiln
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the pros and cons of using oil and water based media
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are that if you use water based
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generally it's going to be quick work
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glycerol will take a little bit longer but with oil
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genuine oil
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it's going to take longer to dry and therefore their
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open media and they'll accept more oil and
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the paint will stay wetter for longer
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which is an advantage but
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against it would be that putting sewing machine oil
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into a Kiln
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when it's drying
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it's not very nice smelling those vapors
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so you've got to be careful of your health
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some other oils like Lily oil and
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spike lavender oil they smell really nice
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my studio smells more of pine oil
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because that's the one that I trained with
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and I like it very much
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and it just homonizes with my speed of working
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so it would dry within a day
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and my paints are mixed for that day
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so I'll try another medium here which will be that
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pine oil which is called painting medium
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from Vitrum Signum in UK
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and it has got that distinctive smell of pine in it
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so we'll just take another
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little bit of the purple red
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the fugitive purple red which is used for testing
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and this time
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put some pine oil beside it
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now you can see
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that that holds its shape like a blob
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and that's because the oil is much thicker
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than the sewing machine which flooded
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so here we've got a close up showing
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pine Oil painting medium next to the paint
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the purple red
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and you can see that it's holding it
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shape like a little mound
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where the sewing machine oil
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which is even more open and very runny
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just spread everywhere
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so I'm going to wipe away the sewing machine
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oil and this time blend the purple red
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with the painting medium just a bit at a time
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and to me the lovely smell
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of pine oil is coming off here
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don't know what you think or sker
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do you like that or not
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oh it's a lovely smell
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oh well that's a fresh forest right
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hundred percent of us here like the smell of pine oil
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so it's really gorgeously glossy
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it's a bit like
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silk screen printing in I think the look of it
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I've mixed way too much
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but at least you can see what that dollop looks like
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and I haven't put too much in
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so although I put all that painting medium there
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I haven't mixed it all in
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I'm just going to wipe that away now
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and then roll the brush into the paint mix
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so that's dipped into the solvent
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clean it insist it
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and bring over the paint medium
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and put the brush in there
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and wipe it so that it's a damp brush
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before I roll it into here
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now you'd never put zest it into the paint mix
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it will spoil the color
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only use the medium that's in there already
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so painting medium next you'll
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you'll see that the silkiness going down here
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and that's why I like it so much
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because I think I can get a smoother wash like this
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by just gently
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pulling the paint down
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where with saying machine
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as you saw it shows every little
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every little stroke of the brush brushing
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so that silk here could spend more time on that
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as I said before
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when you've got your first layer down
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it's like the icing on the cake
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and then you can add more color to intensify it
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so that that color is darker at the top
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and then you're working down towards the halftone
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so that's blended beautifully
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so I would say to me painting medium
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the rate of evaporation is good
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the viscosity is good the runniness and
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it's not too runny
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and I like the way you can use brush strokes on it
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and when it fires up it will give a lovely pinky color
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here it is in the bottom
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right hand corner of the chart that I made
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so there's the good pink
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and
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when you study the chart in my book you'll see
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that I've got the sewing machine medium up here
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and
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so there's sewing sheen medium paraffin oil pine oil
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and instead of
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paraffin oil you could actually use Johnson's Baby Oil
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because that's paraffin based
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you can get paraffin oil from the pharmacy
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because
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I think it's used for stomach problems or something
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and it's also used for cats that have got furballs
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to bring the furball up if they're coughing on it
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so just get rid of the painting medium
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and show you how paraffin oil works
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so once again
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a little touch of the
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of the paint transferred to there
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and then some paraffin oil just place the long side
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and that holds its shape quite well
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but because I'm here noticing that
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it is slightly more runny so
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it's less viscous than the
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pine oil but it's more so it's stickier than the
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sewing machine oil
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so just going to mix a little bit blend that in
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when it comes as Johnson's Baby oil
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I think it is runnier
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so whatever else they've put in
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it doesn't top set the paint
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but they obviously make it go further
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let's put that down there
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pulse it shape quite well because I didn't slud it with
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the medium
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I'll be a little bit there to roll the brush in
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it's possible to work off one little tile like this
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I'm going to wash the brush and zest it
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but make sure I've dried it so no zest
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it goes into the paraffin oil
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and then roll the brush in the paraffin oil
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and lay down the paint like this
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and to me it's behaving between these two
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it showing some streakiness left by the brush strokes
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but it's also making quite a good wash
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so this is one that I recommend
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and when I was teaching in the States we used this
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but I felt it was safe
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because we were firing the pieces outside
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and so
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please make sure if you're using sewing machine oil
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or paraffin oil
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or any of these really
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that you've got good ventilation in the room
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I'm afraid you'll have to keep the windows open
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or have an extractive fan or something
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the final medium here
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that I'm going to try is Bliss Roll
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which you have in your kit
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that I've recommended because it's water based
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so instead of having the zest it
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it's just going to be water from here
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I meant to mention that
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other solvents could be white spirit
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but incredibly fierce smell
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nobody really likes that
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or you could use pure
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well it's not sepure alcohol now
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which is called surgical spirit from the pharmacy
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and that's used for cleaning wounds
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in UK it has a 15 pound tariff on it
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but if you buy it
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or as we used to
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buy it on the continent it was just a couple of quid
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and it's now 70% purity but it used to be 97
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it just shows how things have changed kind of pandemic
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so I don't know what the charge would be
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but you could bring back this pure alcohol in bottles
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about 2 liters was the maximum
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and it was sold so cheaply because
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and I think it is as well in the States
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because it's used for preserving fruit
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so I've seen it in the supermarket by the litre
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very very cheap and probably that's what I'd go for
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it's no smell at all
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so here I'm now going to add
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some purple red
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you just want a little again
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and then blend just a bit of it see how it takes
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see the way those balls of powder scatter
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they've just got to be gathered in mashed down
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and as you work the paint it becomes
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thick so Tropic is the word
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because the act of grinding makes it runnier
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and after a while
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it forms more of a lump like toothpaste
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so this one being the final one just wash the brush
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in the water solvent
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then into the gliss roll
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roll the paint into the gliss roll paint mix and then
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just apply this
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and that's behaving really nicely
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it's a very smooth silky look
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and I like that very much
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and that's why I've recommended it to you
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so we'll just put a little bit more at the top end
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and it's super saturated
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you wouldn't want it any thicker than that
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otherwise it won't fire properly
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so very good to just work it down like this
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going to the halftone tone at the bottom
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and then wash the brush
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and that's the sample test
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that's all you need to do really
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rather than a chart
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so I just get the packy stuff off the back
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and next time you'll see us at the Kiln
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here's the test piece
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I'm sitting on the titanium mesh for a quick firing
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I'm going to let it down there
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I've got the blue glasses on just
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to shield my eyes from the infrared of the Kiln
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to demonstrate safety
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I'm going to open the Kiln door
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and just present the tile in there so it's not a shock
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just for drying off the oil
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now this is
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actually evaporating the oil listen to it
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so you won't see steam rising
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you've got the oil vapor coming off
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when you see that
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if you can see that also can you just about yeah
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so as you do that it's going to be quite trustly now
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just a last little bit of vapor
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probably
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coming off the sewing machine oil at the moment
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because that is the heaviest oil
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so and obviously at this end
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where I put more paint and more medium
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that's going to take longer to drive off
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so just make sure that that's gone
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otherwise the oil driving off
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in the Kiln with the heat
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it's going to spit off the paint and spoil the work
401
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just check that that's all off
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yep that's ready to go
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so it's going to be at the back of the Kiln
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where its hot is
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just going to use that
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spatula and lay it down there gently
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and then shot the film quickly
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and then the next time
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you'll see it come out to the Kiln
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minute 7 50 just like everything else or
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1382
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right I've got the cold tile back here at the bench
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and it's really interesting what's happened here
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I'm going to quickly label up
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how I'd painted down the medium
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so this one first one was sewing machine oil
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then it was painting medium
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then it was paraffin oil and finally
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bliss roll and using the marker pen you'll notice
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or with a Sharpie
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that it burnt out in the kill
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and it can be really useful
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because you can Mark up your tile
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and then you can paint within
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those lines
426
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knowing that the lines are going to disappear
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so
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you can see that the successful pinks are up this end
429
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sewing machine oil
430
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painting medium very successful
431
00:21:02,766 --> 00:21:05,666
paraffin oil and glycerol not so good
432
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now another factor
433
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in this fugitive red is the
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actual base that you're using
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and the bases that you have
436
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those who bought the kit it's from
437
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AJ Wells in UK
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and you can see that all of these are beautifully pink
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00:21:24,066 --> 00:21:27,499
here's a glycerol compared with the test base
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not successful it's gone brown
441
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and here's the liquid paraffin oil
442
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and here it is brown
443
00:21:34,933 --> 00:21:37,766
so you can see quite dramatically what a change
444
00:21:37,766 --> 00:21:40,699
that makes and it may not matter if you're not
445
00:21:40,700 --> 00:21:42,766
using these fugitive colors
446
00:21:42,766 --> 00:21:43,599
but if you are
447
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it's really well worth getting the right ace on there
448
00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:48,266
it says in my book
449
00:21:48,933 --> 00:21:51,066
the basis that I recommend are
450
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d w 1 dial white
451
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and a medium white
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and a couple of medium whites
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T6 is a good one and you'll find your own as well
454
00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:05,666
say as long as you've tested them out that's fine
455
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,200
so I've done lots of tests over the years
456
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and I kept them from the student days
457
00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:15,300
and it's really good
458
00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:17,500
to refer back to them from time to time
459
00:22:17,933 --> 00:22:19,366
this was using
460
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festival making a swatch of colors with a palette
461
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and the colors are just mixed colors
462
00:22:28,066 --> 00:22:30,999
and then of course there's the very detailed one
463
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that I've made
464
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,666
of my palette using sunshine and saradel
465
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so I've got the pure colors up the side here
466
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and I've got them repeated along the bottom
467
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,700
so I've given them a number
468
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so here's number 17
469
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which is this black
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here's the strong black here's the halftone black
471
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and then mixing it with white
472
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you can read the grid as you go up and along
473
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so whatever color you choose
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if it's read green
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then mixed with something like orange
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00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:06,800
you're coming along here
477
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and you'll find the mix there
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which is a lovely smoky sort of carkey color
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so just get familiar with your paints
480
00:23:18,133 --> 00:23:19,366
and what they can do
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and then the brush strokes
482
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here was an exercise for
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actually stippling out so that you've got
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the pale stipple at one end
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and the intense color at the other end
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and it's been tidied up with the brush
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after the painting
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00:23:35,466 --> 00:23:38,399
you just dip the brush into some medium and dry it
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so using a damp brush
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and just go down the side like that
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and then you've got fabulous
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of color
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which everybody would think well how did you do that
494
00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:51,666
but you can remove the paint so easily
495
00:23:51,666 --> 00:23:53,699
because it's on this glassy base
496
00:23:54,366 --> 00:23:57,366
so here are more tests and
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more colors that we used when we were learning
498
00:24:02,366 --> 00:24:05,533
and going into the payless sort of colors there
499
00:24:05,533 --> 00:24:08,733
just to see how it holds the color in the Kiln firing
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00:24:08,733 --> 00:24:10,666
because that's the other factor
501
00:24:10,766 --> 00:24:12,999
you've got the medium the base
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00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,766
and the firing temperature
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and that's why I recommend 750
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00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:19,300
or
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3082 paranheit but
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00:24:24,566 --> 00:24:28,599
you need to know that some pieces fire more quickly
507
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,900
obviously if it's a piece as big as that with a 1mm
508
00:24:33,666 --> 00:24:34,699
piece of steel there
509
00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:36,900
it's going to fire much more slowly
510
00:24:36,900 --> 00:24:40,866
than a piece that just has half a millimeter there
511
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that's going to be a very quick firing
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00:24:42,766 --> 00:24:44,666
and if you left it in too long
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00:24:44,866 --> 00:24:47,266
then it would begin to
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00:24:47,666 --> 00:24:49,533
the paint would drop into the white
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and it would begin to burn out and go lacy
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00:24:52,666 --> 00:24:55,599
so this needs watching more closely
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it may far quicker than 7:50 as this one did
518
00:25:00,866 --> 00:25:01,766
so I've got
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Spike Lavenderer along the end
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which came from held of Harrogate
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that are now held of Holland
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00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:10,366
and it's the spike lavender
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that is the beautiful oil that is collected from the
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leaves at the beginning of spring
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00:25:16,733 --> 00:25:18,333
when that's at the top of the plant
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00:25:18,333 --> 00:25:20,566
and that's got the most oil in it
527
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,300
and that was used
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00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:24,866
very traditionally in the 18th century
529
00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:28,066
and Lily oil was used in
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00:25:28,566 --> 00:25:29,266
is used
531
00:25:29,266 --> 00:25:32,099
today in Switzerland in the clock watch industry
532
00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:33,000
industry
533
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,900
they use it for their paintings to do watch dials
534
00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:38,966
and it has got the most wonderful smell
535
00:25:39,266 --> 00:25:42,933
but a pot like this costs about 50 pounds
536
00:25:43,566 --> 00:25:47,533
so I think go for something that's cheaper
537
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:48,700
when you're learning
538
00:25:48,766 --> 00:25:52,299
and glycerol should work well with this
539
00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:52,800
AJ
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well so that you're safe as well using water as a base
541
00:26:05,866 --> 00:26:08,366
so now I'm going to show you some flour painting
542
00:26:08,366 --> 00:26:10,266
where there are different approaches
543
00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:14,866
you're already familiar with using an outline pen line
544
00:26:14,966 --> 00:26:17,366
and then filling in with a wash
545
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:23,400
so this sequence shows the pen line just on its own
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00:26:23,466 --> 00:26:24,533
and obviously using
547
00:26:24,533 --> 00:26:26,866
different colors appropriate to what you're
548
00:26:26,933 --> 00:26:28,199
painting later
549
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,700
and then adding the wash
550
00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:32,133
and then finally
551
00:26:32,166 --> 00:26:35,933
using lacca resist to protect the flowers
552
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,533
and sponging over in the sequence
553
00:26:38,533 --> 00:26:39,499
and then another
554
00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:41,733
thicker layer of this background color
555
00:26:41,866 --> 00:26:43,666
and using scrafito or
556
00:26:43,666 --> 00:26:46,799
and lacca resist to reveal the layer below
557
00:26:47,166 --> 00:26:49,966
to give more three dimensions to the design
558
00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:53,100
so that's fairly easy to follow
559
00:26:53,933 --> 00:26:57,666
this one is where you just do some free painting
560
00:26:57,666 --> 00:27:01,266
as washes using brush strokes
561
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,666
you can actually build up these lines
562
00:27:04,666 --> 00:27:08,066
by using a wet in wet method
563
00:27:08,066 --> 00:27:11,333
so that's the base paint that you've painted on is wet
564
00:27:11,333 --> 00:27:14,266
and then you introduce more paint which is wet
565
00:27:14,766 --> 00:27:15,533
there's another
566
00:27:15,533 --> 00:27:18,399
which is more risky method of wet on dry
567
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,700
so you've allowed the base to dry somewhat
568
00:27:21,766 --> 00:27:23,866
and then you add little flicks of color
569
00:27:23,866 --> 00:27:26,266
but if that goes wrong you have to wipe the whole off
570
00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:28,066
a whole lot off and start again
571
00:27:28,333 --> 00:27:29,599
but if you get it just right
572
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,700
and the bottom layer is damp
573
00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:33,066
and you introduce more color
574
00:27:33,066 --> 00:27:35,099
it can look really intense and good
575
00:27:35,366 --> 00:27:37,299
and here a little bit of scrophedo
576
00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:40,100
where there's a layer being fired on
577
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,166
below which is the pale tone of this leaf
578
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,266
and then apply more darker green
579
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,066
the richer color on top and then scratch back
580
00:27:51,066 --> 00:27:54,066
and you can see the little vein lines there
581
00:27:54,933 --> 00:27:56,266
and here again
582
00:27:56,266 --> 00:27:59,333
that's had two firings to achieve that effect
583
00:27:59,333 --> 00:28:01,466
I hope you can see that now in detail
584
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,500
so it's interesting with the
585
00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:07,466
pencil outline that I showed you
586
00:28:07,466 --> 00:28:09,966
here's a strong pencil outline
587
00:28:10,333 --> 00:28:12,466
which is on a piece of copper
588
00:28:12,566 --> 00:28:16,099
and I had hoped to keep the copper flat
589
00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:19,333
because it's quite thick just like the steel
590
00:28:19,533 --> 00:28:21,733
but inevitably it's gone
591
00:28:21,866 --> 00:28:22,933
salsa shaped
592
00:28:22,933 --> 00:28:25,766
which you can see when it's lying flat like that
593
00:28:25,933 --> 00:28:28,899
it doesn't lie flat like the steel tile
594
00:28:28,900 --> 00:28:30,700
so this is a much better
595
00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:32,466
plaque to use
596
00:28:32,466 --> 00:28:35,166
and here's the outline in pencil
597
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,000
for a sequence that I'm about to show you
598
00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:41,300
very very fine pencil
599
00:28:41,666 --> 00:28:43,199
just scribed over
600
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,400
to transfer the pencil line and fire it first
601
00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:49,966
so that's been completely fixed
602
00:28:49,966 --> 00:28:52,599
and if I was going to then paint it up
603
00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:54,700
I've just used a little bit of spit
604
00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:56,533
which is a great degreaser
605
00:28:56,533 --> 00:28:57,933
just to wipe over
606
00:28:58,133 --> 00:28:59,733
and then it's ready to go
607
00:28:59,733 --> 00:29:02,733
and try not to touch anything with your fingers
608
00:29:02,866 --> 00:29:04,333
because no matter how clean they are
609
00:29:04,333 --> 00:29:05,599
they've still got a bit of grease on
610
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,200
that can spoil the painting
611
00:29:08,133 --> 00:29:10,566
so this sequence goes like this
612
00:29:11,333 --> 00:29:12,699
there was a design
613
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,333
which was Violos
614
00:29:15,966 --> 00:29:18,999
and then I transferred the line
615
00:29:19,133 --> 00:29:21,299
to the enamel and fired it
616
00:29:22,966 --> 00:29:26,466
and it was just a pale guide it didn't show through
617
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,366
on the first wash of color
618
00:29:29,733 --> 00:29:32,866
where I was just adding paint freely with a brush
619
00:29:35,166 --> 00:29:38,766
and here's the next firing of paint color
620
00:29:43,300 --> 00:29:45,100
and the next one
621
00:29:46,066 --> 00:29:47,166
said that's the final one
622
00:29:47,166 --> 00:29:49,566
where it's looking richer in the colours of gondarka
623
00:29:49,566 --> 00:29:51,666
so just like a watercolor sequence
624
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,533
that's how you would build up the colour
625
00:29:53,533 --> 00:29:55,599
but you're fire in between the layers
626
00:29:56,066 --> 00:29:57,866
and you don't add one
627
00:29:57,866 --> 00:30:00,999
color or another at the end like the fugitive reds
628
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,766
it's possible with this sunshine serodel range to
629
00:30:04,766 --> 00:30:07,466
mix them and use them all at the same time
630
00:30:07,766 --> 00:30:11,333
but that little bit of intensity works quite well
631
00:30:11,333 --> 00:30:12,733
in the final firing
632
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,533
so if I just do a little demonstration to show you how
633
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,666
to do say this piece here I'll move these up a bit
634
00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:24,933
and then show you the paints
635
00:30:24,933 --> 00:30:25,733
now
636
00:30:26,566 --> 00:30:28,866
here's the color wheel as a reference
637
00:30:28,933 --> 00:30:33,199
and I keep my paints in just a plastic food box
638
00:30:34,133 --> 00:30:37,399
so this lot I've mixed up with glycerol
639
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,666
as I've recommended for this course
640
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:41,566
and on top
641
00:30:42,266 --> 00:30:46,199
I've got the mixed colors for portrait painting
642
00:30:47,166 --> 00:30:50,066
and I'll introduce those in a minute but
643
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,500
here is the whole warehouse of colors
644
00:30:54,266 --> 00:30:55,599
just like these
645
00:30:56,700 --> 00:30:59,500
but it's got a couple of mixes as well
646
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,566
you've got the great black that I've spoken about
647
00:31:03,566 --> 00:31:06,933
before and you've got the rich dark brown there
648
00:31:07,766 --> 00:31:10,899
the rich dark brown is the purple
649
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:13,766
the blend we
650
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,600
and the rich Chestnut
651
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,166
so those three colors make that one
652
00:31:19,733 --> 00:31:21,966
and if you just change this
653
00:31:22,366 --> 00:31:24,399
Chestnut for Reed green
654
00:31:24,566 --> 00:31:26,199
that's your purple black
655
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,366
so two mixes there
656
00:31:28,666 --> 00:31:30,099
two dark colors
657
00:31:30,300 --> 00:31:32,400
and for portraits later
658
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,966
it's going to be this cream color as well
659
00:31:35,766 --> 00:31:38,099
but don't need to talk about that quite yet
660
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,366
let's put these ones down and then
661
00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:44,966
I need to bring in the medium
662
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:47,533
and the solvent
663
00:31:47,533 --> 00:31:50,466
so I put the paints closest to me
664
00:31:51,766 --> 00:31:55,299
and then I'll put some tissue down here
665
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:56,900
just wipe the brush on
666
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,733
and I put the solvent first
667
00:31:59,733 --> 00:32:01,899
and then I put the medium
668
00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:03,600
so that I'm washing the brush first
669
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:04,700
that makes sense
670
00:32:05,566 --> 00:32:06,999
so I'm going to take
671
00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:09,000
not the zero but the
672
00:32:09,933 --> 00:32:14,199
No.1 brush and these are Kalinsky Minitaris
673
00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:16,866
and actually the labels worn off on this one
674
00:32:16,866 --> 00:32:18,333
I've used it say much but
675
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,800
here we are here's the remains of it
676
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,100
it's the Kalinsky series
677
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,900
7 miniature finest sable by winter in Newton England
678
00:32:28,166 --> 00:32:30,699
if you can find some equivalent that works
679
00:32:30,700 --> 00:32:32,200
that's absolutely fine
680
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,300
but as I said
681
00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:36,066
just make sure it reaches that very fine point
682
00:32:36,066 --> 00:32:37,466
or you'll be frustrated
683
00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:42,966
so I'll put down the No. 2 brush and just
684
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,966
wipe it into the solvent
685
00:32:46,366 --> 00:32:48,599
and just get a little bit of Bliss Roll
686
00:32:48,766 --> 00:32:51,099
which all these paints are mixed in already
687
00:32:54,133 --> 00:32:57,199
and I'm going to put a slightly darker green
688
00:32:57,366 --> 00:32:59,733
over the top of this base
689
00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:02,466
so let's get a bit of the chrome green
690
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,600
and some of the reed green
691
00:33:05,866 --> 00:33:07,866
which is a very dominant color
692
00:33:11,266 --> 00:33:13,599
and just for the purposes of this deno
693
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,733
you'll see the effect of putting one layer
694
00:33:17,966 --> 00:33:20,466
over the original firing
695
00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:23,100
okay so coming around here I'm just
696
00:33:23,266 --> 00:33:26,299
gently striking the paint into place like this
697
00:33:27,866 --> 00:33:30,299
and then I can do a bit of tidying later
698
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,566
and roll the brush in
699
00:33:36,066 --> 00:33:37,266
more of the paint
700
00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:45,800
and you're virtually pulling the paint over the surface
701
00:33:47,066 --> 00:33:48,399
to get that effect
702
00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:55,400
clean that off and then
703
00:33:55,733 --> 00:33:57,299
using the damp brush
704
00:33:57,366 --> 00:34:01,666
just wipe down here to make that point finer
705
00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:04,800
and go around
706
00:34:07,100 --> 00:34:10,700
and then take out the middle to reveal
707
00:34:15,566 --> 00:34:16,733
the layer below
708
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,166
we've got a bit of a bright light in my eyes
709
00:34:24,166 --> 00:34:25,799
but I hate that you can see
710
00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:27,533
how it's looking
711
00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:32,600
and just turn the painting around
712
00:34:32,866 --> 00:34:33,699
so that
713
00:34:33,866 --> 00:34:36,366
you've got it in the right direction for yourself to
714
00:34:36,366 --> 00:34:38,066
pull paint towards you
715
00:34:39,133 --> 00:34:40,866
so don't go across like that
716
00:34:40,866 --> 00:34:42,999
it's very difficult to make a horizon that way
717
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,600
but if you turn it through
718
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:45,500
90 degrees
719
00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:48,566
to pull down to make a horizon is much easier
720
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,666
so that just gives you the basic idea there
721
00:34:52,700 --> 00:34:56,166
and once you've got something fired on
722
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,466
then you can build up the detail
723
00:34:58,933 --> 00:35:01,199
and just put in these little touches
724
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,133
if you put it straight into the yellow
725
00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:05,466
it would blend too much
726
00:35:05,466 --> 00:35:09,333
so just plan the layers and the firings
727
00:35:11,066 --> 00:35:13,299
okay so if I've got just three little
728
00:35:13,766 --> 00:35:15,066
lines like that
729
00:35:15,066 --> 00:35:17,566
I can show how I would then tidy these up
730
00:35:17,566 --> 00:35:19,466
to get refined lines
731
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,066
so it looks clumsy at first
732
00:35:29,066 --> 00:35:32,166
but with the paintbrush you can tidy and make it look
733
00:35:32,566 --> 00:35:34,266
really much more miniaturist
734
00:35:36,566 --> 00:35:38,999
so this is really wash
735
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:43,300
colors like like watercolor that I'm demonstrating
736
00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:46,766
not miniaturous techniques quite
737
00:35:48,333 --> 00:35:49,866
and then you would fire that
738
00:35:49,866 --> 00:35:51,566
in the Kiln when you've gone
739
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,666
all over it and that would be the next layer and
740
00:35:54,966 --> 00:35:56,266
it would look like that
741
00:35:56,266 --> 00:35:58,733
and then you'd add the next layer on top
742
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,400
so I hit that gives you a good idea for flour painting
743
00:36:05,866 --> 00:36:06,766
in this exercise
744
00:36:06,766 --> 00:36:08,266
I'm just going to first of all
745
00:36:08,266 --> 00:36:11,566
show you the paint palette for portrait painting
746
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:16,066
and this is set out in quite a different sort of way
747
00:36:16,066 --> 00:36:16,933
as you can see
748
00:36:16,933 --> 00:36:20,666
with the mixed colors being there for the flesh tones
749
00:36:20,866 --> 00:36:22,966
but your warehouse of colors is
750
00:36:22,966 --> 00:36:25,199
exactly the same as I've shown you before
751
00:36:25,566 --> 00:36:28,066
and I've circulated all these
752
00:36:28,666 --> 00:36:31,933
sheets to allow you to chop up your own
753
00:36:32,366 --> 00:36:34,299
size of charts
754
00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:36,400
say that you can cover it with a film
755
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,500
to protect it from getting grubby
756
00:36:38,566 --> 00:36:39,866
and then just lay it
757
00:36:39,866 --> 00:36:42,899
under the paint palette if you're using glass
758
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,533
so here's the fleshtones
759
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,700
matching beautifully
760
00:36:49,866 --> 00:36:53,166
and here's what I call the warehouse of colors
761
00:36:54,733 --> 00:36:55,799
just below
762
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:58,800
almost matching
763
00:36:58,866 --> 00:36:59,666
that
764
00:37:00,066 --> 00:37:03,666
dark grape black is just slightly able to the right
765
00:37:03,666 --> 00:37:06,199
but as long as you know where you're going with it
766
00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:08,966
in the end you won't need these charts
767
00:37:08,966 --> 00:37:12,466
but it's just initially to just see what the mixes are
768
00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:15,400
you've probably all got an airtight box
769
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:19,166
and that's to slow down the rate of evaporation
770
00:37:19,466 --> 00:37:23,133
and I recommend putting the paints into the fridge
771
00:37:23,133 --> 00:37:25,566
to slow down the evaporation even more
772
00:37:25,566 --> 00:37:26,366
between
773
00:37:26,766 --> 00:37:28,199
painting sessions
774
00:37:28,333 --> 00:37:29,499
and inside
775
00:37:29,566 --> 00:37:33,366
I've got these two little pieces I've made from copper
776
00:37:33,566 --> 00:37:36,999
which helped you to make the double decker
777
00:37:37,466 --> 00:37:38,966
paint palettes
778
00:37:38,966 --> 00:37:40,599
now if you go to Russia
779
00:37:40,900 --> 00:37:42,400
they're far better organized
780
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,400
they've got many chests of drawers
781
00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:47,133
and they just slide these plates in
782
00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:50,600
and they're completely dust free
783
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,333
and because they're using sewing machine oil
784
00:37:53,466 --> 00:37:55,466
they're just not gonna gather any dust
785
00:37:55,466 --> 00:37:56,699
and they're gonna stay wet
786
00:37:56,700 --> 00:37:59,066
and they can just bring out the palette
787
00:37:59,066 --> 00:37:59,799
mixed palette
788
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,266
for that particular subject
789
00:38:01,266 --> 00:38:02,733
that they might be repeating
790
00:38:03,300 --> 00:38:04,133
but here
791
00:38:04,133 --> 00:38:06,566
this was the method that I was taught in Barcelona
792
00:38:06,566 --> 00:38:07,566
and it works for me
793
00:38:07,566 --> 00:38:09,166
so I've still got the original
794
00:38:09,533 --> 00:38:10,999
little copper pieces that
795
00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:14,100
my teacher chopped up for me
796
00:38:14,966 --> 00:38:16,133
I think quite fond of them
797
00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:24,766
so just to show you that if you bring out your palette
798
00:38:25,566 --> 00:38:29,099
from working say the previous day you must
799
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:31,733
just pression up the paints
800
00:38:31,733 --> 00:38:33,933
because they tend to get a little bit dry
801
00:38:33,933 --> 00:38:34,699
around the edge
802
00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:36,866
if you've used something like um
803
00:38:36,933 --> 00:38:41,199
pine oil and particularly if you've used unimeater
804
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:42,800
if you're working quickly anyway
805
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,300
you will need to grind them probably every half
806
00:38:45,966 --> 00:38:48,299
day like every two and a half hours
807
00:38:48,300 --> 00:38:49,600
depending on the ambient
808
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,733
temperature of the room that you're working in
809
00:38:51,733 --> 00:38:53,199
because that will influence it
810
00:38:53,266 --> 00:38:54,399
evaporation
811
00:38:54,966 --> 00:38:58,866
um with the glycerol they do stay wet for a while
812
00:38:58,866 --> 00:39:00,933
I I mix these earlier
813
00:39:01,066 --> 00:39:03,733
and there's no need to freshen them up
814
00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:05,733
but I'll just show you what I do
815
00:39:05,766 --> 00:39:07,366
anyway as a matter of course
816
00:39:07,366 --> 00:39:09,466
every day that I'm painting
817
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,700
I would take the first color the white
818
00:39:14,166 --> 00:39:15,166
then the yellow
819
00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:16,800
then I would mix up
820
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,366
um this color which is the waxy color
821
00:39:20,366 --> 00:39:21,966
cream color which is the
822
00:39:22,100 --> 00:39:22,366
the
823
00:39:22,366 --> 00:39:25,299
basis for the flesh tones that I'm going to introduce
824
00:39:25,300 --> 00:39:27,000
for the portrait painting
825
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:32,000
or any flesh so make sure that that's all well ground
826
00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:35,266
and anything that's dried around the edge
827
00:39:35,266 --> 00:39:37,166
it's ready to then put back
828
00:39:37,166 --> 00:39:39,733
so I would use a
829
00:39:40,266 --> 00:39:43,966
cotton or linen cloth this time rather than tissue
830
00:39:43,966 --> 00:39:45,533
because I'm becoming more purest
831
00:39:45,533 --> 00:39:47,399
now that this is advanced techniques
832
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,100
and I don't want any dust or
833
00:39:49,100 --> 00:39:51,400
little hairs to go on to the paint
834
00:39:51,700 --> 00:39:54,400
get stuck in there and then show in the fire
835
00:39:54,866 --> 00:39:57,299
so I'm going to put that back
836
00:39:57,966 --> 00:40:00,499
there where it's nice and clean now
837
00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:07,666
and show you how I actually mix that color
838
00:40:08,533 --> 00:40:11,499
so having mixed up the white polar white
839
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:13,300
there
840
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,266
got the cloth over here
841
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:18,866
you can just be a handkerchief
842
00:40:18,866 --> 00:40:20,799
this is an old napkin
843
00:40:22,133 --> 00:40:23,899
tiny little bit of the yellow
844
00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:25,600
because it's quite a dominant color
845
00:40:26,133 --> 00:40:27,733
so mix that in
846
00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:33,366
and of course depending on the complexion
847
00:40:33,366 --> 00:40:36,699
this base color has to match the
848
00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:39,700
the lightest tone
849
00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:42,733
of the complexion of the person that you're painting
850
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,133
so you'd need to look at your color chart to see
851
00:40:46,166 --> 00:40:48,933
where that would come in this area here
852
00:40:49,566 --> 00:40:52,166
well obviously not the blues but somewhere in
853
00:40:52,166 --> 00:40:53,333
in this area
854
00:40:53,333 --> 00:40:57,266
and just practice by mixing two colors together
855
00:40:57,466 --> 00:40:59,199
but in different proportions
856
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:00,900
just as I showed you with the yellow
857
00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:02,300
tiny little bit of yellow
858
00:41:02,300 --> 00:41:05,566
it may need a third color as well to make the base
859
00:41:05,866 --> 00:41:08,133
so that I'm just adding in
860
00:41:09,700 --> 00:41:12,666
so I think it's quite important that you see how the
861
00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:14,733
flesh tones are mixed
862
00:41:14,733 --> 00:41:17,266
so I'm going to wipe away totally once
863
00:41:17,266 --> 00:41:18,466
that I did earlier
864
00:41:18,466 --> 00:41:20,266
but you've seen them as a reference
865
00:41:21,966 --> 00:41:25,599
and just use the cotton cloth to wipe over
866
00:41:26,766 --> 00:41:29,066
and of course it's water that I'm using
867
00:41:32,266 --> 00:41:34,599
as my solvent
868
00:41:34,733 --> 00:41:36,999
but what I'm going to do is
869
00:41:37,266 --> 00:41:38,799
look here you've got
870
00:41:39,133 --> 00:41:42,533
roof defer this one plus a little bit of Oker
871
00:41:42,533 --> 00:41:46,599
thanks Oscar and then you've got a touch of purple red
872
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,700
so I'll mix this up to show how that's done
873
00:41:50,933 --> 00:41:51,733
so
874
00:41:52,466 --> 00:41:53,766
some roosterfer
875
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,966
I would say about that much
876
00:41:56,466 --> 00:42:00,066
I then tend to put a little bit more of the ochre
877
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,466
mix that in so it's that sort of a tone
878
00:42:03,966 --> 00:42:07,099
and then it's just calmed a little bit by
879
00:42:07,166 --> 00:42:09,699
a touch of the purple red here
880
00:42:09,700 --> 00:42:11,666
just a little touch of it
881
00:42:14,900 --> 00:42:19,300
there and I'll scoop that up and put it in place
882
00:42:19,566 --> 00:42:21,533
so that's the color mixed
883
00:42:23,500 --> 00:42:24,533
and that's really
884
00:42:24,666 --> 00:42:26,766
what they would call in the past
885
00:42:26,766 --> 00:42:30,133
traditionally the Carnation color or the flesh color
886
00:42:30,900 --> 00:42:31,366
now
887
00:42:31,366 --> 00:42:34,866
the shadow of the flesh color is Chestnut and purple
888
00:42:34,866 --> 00:42:37,133
so we're mixed
889
00:42:37,933 --> 00:42:39,299
this one first
890
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,866
and then purple itself
891
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,700
it's about equal quantities here
892
00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:51,466
so a little bit more purple
893
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,666
and place that here
894
00:42:57,766 --> 00:42:58,766
so that will be
895
00:42:58,900 --> 00:43:01,700
into the shadow the crease of the eyelid
896
00:43:02,266 --> 00:43:03,399
things like that
897
00:43:03,866 --> 00:43:06,599
then you've got this color here
898
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,700
blue Claire with some of the chrome green
899
00:43:09,700 --> 00:43:13,566
so a little bit of blue care a little bit more
900
00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:19,100
because this is this tends to be a male flesh tane
901
00:43:19,566 --> 00:43:21,866
so if you use it on a woman or a girl
902
00:43:21,866 --> 00:43:23,333
it's going to give her
903
00:43:23,566 --> 00:43:24,866
5 o'clock shadow
904
00:43:25,266 --> 00:43:28,699
there's the tone of it a little bit more blue
905
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,900
and then there's the chrome green going in
906
00:43:36,133 --> 00:43:36,999
to there
907
00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:42,000
and the final one here is the Blue Clare again
908
00:43:43,466 --> 00:43:44,266
that one
909
00:43:48,333 --> 00:43:50,366
with touch of purple
910
00:43:50,366 --> 00:43:54,899
and this is more a female softer shadowing color
911
00:43:55,333 --> 00:43:56,566
just a little bit more
912
00:43:58,533 --> 00:44:00,133
and this is for the flesh
913
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,300
so four basic colors there
914
00:44:04,300 --> 00:44:06,000
which you'll be using all the time
915
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,533
and for all my portraits
916
00:44:07,533 --> 00:44:09,766
that's pretty well all I've used
917
00:44:15,266 --> 00:44:18,666
although I have done portraits obviously of
918
00:44:19,900 --> 00:44:21,966
people have different complexions
919
00:44:21,966 --> 00:44:24,566
and I've matched that very carefully
920
00:44:25,566 --> 00:44:27,799
to get brown tints
921
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,466
more yellowy tints whatever it is more ocre tints
922
00:44:31,466 --> 00:44:35,866
so just have a selection there that match the portrait
923
00:44:35,866 --> 00:44:38,099
that you're going to be using
924
00:44:38,766 --> 00:44:41,799
so I'm going to put these back in the box again
925
00:44:42,700 --> 00:44:44,566
because just leaving them in the open
926
00:44:45,100 --> 00:44:46,500
isn't too good
927
00:44:47,366 --> 00:44:49,533
no the next thing I'm going to do
928
00:44:49,933 --> 00:44:52,533
is to show you how to
929
00:44:53,766 --> 00:44:55,199
blend colors
930
00:44:55,966 --> 00:44:59,766
to actually use these four colors here
931
00:44:59,933 --> 00:45:01,866
and then paint this sphere
932
00:45:03,066 --> 00:45:07,133
that actually shows the 3D look that you will need
933
00:45:07,133 --> 00:45:09,166
if you're able to paint that
934
00:45:09,166 --> 00:45:11,133
or an apple as they say or anything
935
00:45:11,133 --> 00:45:12,766
then you're thinking of the face
936
00:45:13,166 --> 00:45:14,899
with all these flesh tones
937
00:45:14,900 --> 00:45:17,700
so this is just a little exercise to show that
938
00:45:17,966 --> 00:45:19,899
I'm going to anchor this
939
00:45:20,266 --> 00:45:21,899
tile which is a blank
940
00:45:21,933 --> 00:45:23,799
onto here with a bit of blue tap
941
00:45:23,866 --> 00:45:25,899
and onto a piece of cardboard
942
00:45:26,533 --> 00:45:28,366
now you could also use
943
00:45:28,733 --> 00:45:33,366
this is a cake support and it's all beautifully
944
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,066
it's got all bearings so that it can spin
945
00:45:36,266 --> 00:45:39,766
and that way you can turn the subject around
946
00:45:40,066 --> 00:45:41,666
without having to touch it
947
00:45:41,733 --> 00:45:44,099
so this is quite a cheap
948
00:45:44,300 --> 00:45:45,000
little bit of kit
949
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,400
that's really useful if you're working flapped
950
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:48,266
like this
951
00:45:49,333 --> 00:45:51,799
as I say I tend to work vertically
952
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:56,500
but for this exercise I need to bend over the work
953
00:45:57,333 --> 00:45:59,333
so I've got everything lined up here
954
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,500
and I'm going to use the glycerol
955
00:46:04,300 --> 00:46:06,533
which I put to one side here
956
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,100
and I put the
957
00:46:09,566 --> 00:46:13,099
solvent first and then I put the medium
958
00:46:13,100 --> 00:46:14,700
so be able to get it to it like that
959
00:46:14,700 --> 00:46:16,100
and then wipe the brush
960
00:46:16,366 --> 00:46:20,099
on your napkin or handkerchief whatever you have
961
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,400
I'm going to use the No. 1 brush again
962
00:46:27,533 --> 00:46:30,966
and I take off the tube to protect it
963
00:46:31,133 --> 00:46:32,599
and sometimes I give these
964
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:34,600
brushes a hair wash with shampoo
965
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,666
and it's just a very good way to keep them
966
00:46:36,666 --> 00:46:38,399
and finally I would just
967
00:46:38,466 --> 00:46:40,799
draw through to leave it as a point
968
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,200
don't leave it with medium in it
969
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,400
definitely not with solvent in it
970
00:46:46,966 --> 00:46:49,533
so we've got everything lined up now
971
00:46:52,266 --> 00:46:54,733
and I'm going to be putting down
972
00:46:54,733 --> 00:46:56,733
this first flash tone here
973
00:47:00,966 --> 00:47:04,366
so start quite intensely and then draw it out
974
00:47:08,100 --> 00:47:10,966
and then the shadow of that color here
975
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,166
see this was the purple and the Chestnut
976
00:47:21,300 --> 00:47:23,500
carrying as thin as possible there
977
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:30,300
it just becomes automatic to wipe on the hanky
978
00:47:30,366 --> 00:47:31,166
and then
979
00:47:31,333 --> 00:47:34,699
into the water to clean the brush and then finally dip
980
00:47:34,866 --> 00:47:36,133
into the glycerol
981
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,300
which is the medium this time
982
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,666
and if you turn it around like this
983
00:47:40,666 --> 00:47:43,966
then it's the easiest thing to draw the brush down
984
00:47:44,133 --> 00:47:47,266
and make a lovely tidy line like that
985
00:47:50,333 --> 00:47:53,733
and I'm going to pull it that way because it's easier
986
00:47:56,100 --> 00:47:57,533
so that's the beauty of being
987
00:47:57,533 --> 00:47:59,899
able to swivel around a piece of cardboard
988
00:48:00,533 --> 00:48:02,133
or the cake stand
989
00:48:04,366 --> 00:48:08,533
okay so there you've got two tidy lines two tidy bars
990
00:48:11,666 --> 00:48:14,266
I'm not going to put these in until the end
991
00:48:14,266 --> 00:48:15,699
because they'll get in the way
992
00:48:15,900 --> 00:48:17,066
I'm just going to show you
993
00:48:17,066 --> 00:48:19,266
the secret of
994
00:48:19,300 --> 00:48:22,200
building up a portrait is to put the base down
995
00:48:22,566 --> 00:48:25,799
which I've mentioned before is like icing a cake
996
00:48:25,900 --> 00:48:27,733
and you have to have this
997
00:48:28,266 --> 00:48:32,066
covering the whole portrait except for the actual eyes
998
00:48:32,100 --> 00:48:33,966
so anything that's flesh
999
00:48:35,533 --> 00:48:38,333
just lay this color down this waxy color
1000
00:48:38,733 --> 00:48:41,699
you can't see it that well because it's not that yellow
1001
00:48:42,300 --> 00:48:43,600
but it's the thing
1002
00:48:43,666 --> 00:48:46,999
that is a key to receive the other paints
1003
00:48:47,066 --> 00:48:48,466
so I'm putting in
1004
00:48:49,700 --> 00:48:52,800
I think a little bit of a sphere
1005
00:48:52,900 --> 00:48:54,500
it's a rough shape of a sphere
1006
00:48:54,500 --> 00:48:55,733
can you see that Oscar
1007
00:48:55,733 --> 00:48:59,266
is it looking any different from the background
1008
00:48:59,300 --> 00:49:01,266
no not really there's not
1009
00:49:01,300 --> 00:49:02,533
if I held it up
1010
00:49:04,266 --> 00:49:07,199
and just you'll probably catch the reflection then
1011
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,100
so that you can see the matchness of the paint
1012
00:49:10,133 --> 00:49:10,666
cool there
1013
00:49:10,666 --> 00:49:12,533
if you could torture back up to the light again
1014
00:49:12,533 --> 00:49:13,866
back up there yeah
1015
00:49:14,466 --> 00:49:16,899
okay so that's laid down
1016
00:49:17,100 --> 00:49:19,600
and this is how I started this one
1017
00:49:20,700 --> 00:49:22,100
just to match it
1018
00:49:22,533 --> 00:49:25,766
the next thing I do is put in the colonation tone
1019
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,266
and introduce that very very gently here
1020
00:49:30,133 --> 00:49:31,666
just working it in
1021
00:49:34,666 --> 00:49:36,266
I'm coming around there
1022
00:49:36,766 --> 00:49:40,299
just imagining I'm going round a highlight
1023
00:49:41,733 --> 00:49:44,333
so you've got the light on the cheek
1024
00:49:44,333 --> 00:49:47,466
and then you've got it coming into the flesh tone
1025
00:49:47,466 --> 00:49:48,799
the Carnation tone
1026
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,500
and then it will be going into the richer shadow tone
1027
00:49:55,366 --> 00:49:57,099
just coming around there
1028
00:49:57,466 --> 00:49:59,699
if you need a bit more of the
1029
00:49:59,766 --> 00:50:01,933
waxy color than you can add it in
1030
00:50:01,933 --> 00:50:03,333
but don't make it say thick
1031
00:50:03,333 --> 00:50:05,199
that it's not gonna fire properly
1032
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:08,900
so you can just blend the color gently like that
1033
00:50:10,166 --> 00:50:13,566
and just keep adding until you're satisfied with it
1034
00:50:13,566 --> 00:50:15,999
so I'm making quite old rustrix
1035
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,333
being in a bit of a hurry
1036
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,500
but you can refine this to your heart's content
1037
00:50:20,500 --> 00:50:23,333
because the glycerol stays wet quite a long time
1038
00:50:23,700 --> 00:50:25,700
but when it begins to get tacky
1039
00:50:25,933 --> 00:50:29,199
that's when you must stop painting because it doesn't
1040
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:33,000
you can't really wet the colors and rework them
1041
00:50:33,133 --> 00:50:35,733
and that applies to the paints as well
1042
00:50:35,733 --> 00:50:37,699
if you've allowed them to dry out
1043
00:50:37,700 --> 00:50:40,466
then you must wipe them all off and start again
1044
00:50:40,766 --> 00:50:43,966
I I do that naturally between portrait miniatures
1045
00:50:43,966 --> 00:50:47,099
anyway I would start with a new palette
1046
00:50:47,100 --> 00:50:49,500
just because you're looking at it all the fresh
1047
00:50:49,866 --> 00:50:52,866
and considering what the flesh tone really is
1048
00:50:54,866 --> 00:50:56,166
for your subject
1049
00:50:56,900 --> 00:50:59,533
then I come into this darker color here
1050
00:50:59,866 --> 00:51:02,166
and just work this in
1051
00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:12,566
so you can tell I spent a bit longer on this one but
1052
00:51:13,100 --> 00:51:14,166
you'll get the idea
1053
00:51:14,166 --> 00:51:14,699
and it's
1054
00:51:14,700 --> 00:51:17,666
just quite a good exercise to try for yourself
1055
00:51:18,466 --> 00:51:21,266
just to see whether you can get that gradation of color
1056
00:51:25,900 --> 00:51:28,766
you can get a bit of an overlap but obviously
1057
00:51:28,900 --> 00:51:31,366
colors will go muddy if you're mixing
1058
00:51:31,566 --> 00:51:33,299
three colors plus two
1059
00:51:41,666 --> 00:51:43,799
and then some shadow tone
1060
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,700
here say this is what I mentioned was a female tone
1061
00:51:47,700 --> 00:51:49,566
it's quite a warm color
1062
00:51:50,733 --> 00:51:52,899
and you can use it in men as well
1063
00:51:52,900 --> 00:51:56,500
and ditto you can use the male flesh tone in women
1064
00:51:56,500 --> 00:51:58,166
but just use it sparingly
1065
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,466
it may look
1066
00:52:04,666 --> 00:52:05,733
masculine
1067
00:52:06,500 --> 00:52:07,300
okay
1068
00:52:07,900 --> 00:52:09,600
just now work in
1069
00:52:10,533 --> 00:52:12,799
some of this underneath here
1070
00:52:13,300 --> 00:52:15,900
I'm just playing with the four colors
1071
00:52:15,900 --> 00:52:18,100
mixed just to see how they work
1072
00:52:22,733 --> 00:52:25,599
it's really dapping them on and then blending them in
1073
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,566
and I'm going to make this color a bit richer
1074
00:52:31,700 --> 00:52:32,466
around the edge
1075
00:52:32,466 --> 00:52:34,399
so because I've got some color there
1076
00:52:34,500 --> 00:52:36,333
already it takes it very easily
1077
00:52:36,700 --> 00:52:38,333
and it's still wet
1078
00:52:38,766 --> 00:52:40,299
if I were to leave it should dry
1079
00:52:40,300 --> 00:52:43,533
I'd be working wet on dry which is a bit alarming
1080
00:52:44,300 --> 00:52:46,300
you can sometimes get away with it
1081
00:52:50,133 --> 00:52:51,566
and then you go round
1082
00:52:51,566 --> 00:52:53,899
the easiest way possible if your right handed
1083
00:52:53,900 --> 00:52:55,733
is to have it like this
1084
00:52:55,733 --> 00:52:58,333
and just carve around with the brush
1085
00:52:58,333 --> 00:53:01,099
and because it's a damp brush it's like a mock
1086
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,866
and it's just soaking up the paint
1087
00:53:03,866 --> 00:53:06,066
and you're getting a crispa outline
1088
00:53:08,733 --> 00:53:11,466
and that's looking more all like like
1089
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,133
a little sphere
1090
00:53:13,466 --> 00:53:15,166
a flesh sphere
1091
00:53:25,966 --> 00:53:27,499
now because it's still wet
1092
00:53:27,500 --> 00:53:31,266
I can add some more flesh tone under here
1093
00:53:37,300 --> 00:53:40,900
just tiny little strokes called cross hatching
1094
00:53:46,766 --> 00:53:49,199
I'm just blending into the blue but
1095
00:53:49,900 --> 00:53:53,200
I'm not wanting to make it very muddy so
1096
00:53:53,466 --> 00:53:55,399
just stopping short of that
1097
00:53:57,100 --> 00:54:00,266
and I'm going to roll it into some of this
1098
00:54:00,500 --> 00:54:02,100
just to pull that down
1099
00:54:12,933 --> 00:54:16,599
and any just sort of high points of color
1100
00:54:16,733 --> 00:54:20,399
I'm actually mashing down with the brush so that I'm
1101
00:54:20,566 --> 00:54:22,299
also doing pontalism
1102
00:54:22,466 --> 00:54:25,699
which gets finer and finer as you work into it
1103
00:54:28,366 --> 00:54:30,966
so this is just how I work a portrait
1104
00:54:33,300 --> 00:54:36,366
on any particular detail of the the face
1105
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,933
roll in a bit more of the waxy color
1106
00:54:49,533 --> 00:54:51,199
and along the top there
1107
00:54:54,566 --> 00:54:57,066
and if there's a really strong highlight
1108
00:54:57,066 --> 00:55:00,866
you could add a little bit of the Polar White
1109
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:03,966
just in there
1110
00:55:15,133 --> 00:55:19,866
just blend the color that was there just add that in
1111
00:55:22,500 --> 00:55:24,500
that's quite strong and intense
1112
00:55:24,500 --> 00:55:26,700
so I'll just blend it backwards here
1113
00:55:29,533 --> 00:55:32,466
and you can just totally lose yourself in this
1114
00:55:33,733 --> 00:55:35,766
just perfecting perfecting
1115
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,666
you know if you've got time
1116
00:55:40,133 --> 00:55:44,133
on your own then you're just practicing and
1117
00:55:44,266 --> 00:55:46,566
seeing how it looks and if you're not happy with it
1118
00:55:47,066 --> 00:55:49,866
at any time you can just wipe it off and start again
1119
00:55:49,866 --> 00:55:51,333
and that's the beauty of enamel
1120
00:55:52,500 --> 00:55:55,566
effectively any brush stroke has a spontaneous one
1121
00:55:55,933 --> 00:55:57,333
and that's going to be good
1122
00:55:57,800 --> 00:55:59,500
because it's one that you're pleased with
1123
00:56:01,900 --> 00:56:04,500
so as usual I'm not particularly pleased with that
1124
00:56:04,500 --> 00:56:07,700
but it does demonstrate what I'm trying to achieve
1125
00:56:08,666 --> 00:56:10,399
with the painting of a sphere
1126
00:56:10,466 --> 00:56:13,799
and I'm now going to put in the other two colors
1127
00:56:13,900 --> 00:56:14,933
which are the
1128
00:56:15,300 --> 00:56:19,000
the female color which is the lookler
1129
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:22,400
mixed with purple
1130
00:56:23,966 --> 00:56:26,066
and more intense at this end
1131
00:56:33,533 --> 00:56:36,299
that's about as much paint as you'd dare add
1132
00:56:36,300 --> 00:56:37,800
when you were doing a portrait
1133
00:56:38,166 --> 00:56:40,533
and you know quite often I'd be
1134
00:56:40,733 --> 00:56:42,666
starting a portrait one day and
1135
00:56:43,066 --> 00:56:45,366
my husband would come into the studio and
1136
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,500
what you've been doing and I'd show him these
1137
00:56:47,500 --> 00:56:49,333
you only said can't see anything there
1138
00:56:49,333 --> 00:56:50,399
what have you been doing
1139
00:56:50,466 --> 00:56:54,266
and it's just because I paint very tentatively when I'm
1140
00:56:54,366 --> 00:56:55,766
starting a portrait
1141
00:56:55,933 --> 00:56:57,666
it cause first of all
1142
00:56:57,666 --> 00:56:59,599
you're putting in the physical features
1143
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:01,100
and you're really concentrating
1144
00:57:01,100 --> 00:57:03,100
on the contours of the face
1145
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:06,966
and what is it that makes that expression
1146
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:12,266
and then later you have a dialogue with that person
1147
00:57:12,533 --> 00:57:15,133
as you begin to see the features in place
1148
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:16,000
and you're
1149
00:57:16,300 --> 00:57:19,266
working on the flesh tones and modeling the face
1150
00:57:19,700 --> 00:57:22,800
and the whole thing starts to develop
1151
00:57:22,866 --> 00:57:25,166
like an old fashioned potograph
1152
00:57:25,533 --> 00:57:26,766
in the fixative
1153
00:57:33,566 --> 00:57:36,466
so I put the brush into a little bit of
1154
00:57:36,566 --> 00:57:38,733
glycerol the medium only
1155
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,666
not water on the painting ever
1156
00:57:43,700 --> 00:57:45,566
and just thin that out a bit
1157
00:57:45,666 --> 00:57:47,999
and then I'm going to turn it through
1158
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:52,533
90 degrees so that I can just draw the brush down there
1159
00:57:53,266 --> 00:57:55,399
and get more of a fine line
1160
00:57:58,533 --> 00:58:00,099
I'm the same on the other side
1161
00:58:01,166 --> 00:58:03,566
or if you want to leave it freely then do
1162
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:07,566
and you could label this up of course with your pen oil
1163
00:58:08,133 --> 00:58:09,899
you could just mix a color up
1164
00:58:09,900 --> 00:58:12,533
and just say which these flesh tones are
1165
00:58:12,733 --> 00:58:14,766
just for reference if you're not sure
1166
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,200
so it's a very good aid to use
1167
00:58:19,300 --> 00:58:22,133
and I'll fire that so that you can see
1168
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,200
how it fires up and how the colors are fixed
1169
00:58:27,566 --> 00:58:29,866
you'll put that over on the side
1170
00:58:30,900 --> 00:58:35,133
and I want to next show you a portrait sequence
1171
00:58:35,866 --> 00:58:38,599
and this sheet you've already had
1172
00:58:41,500 --> 00:58:44,133
I'll put the paints away because
1173
00:58:44,700 --> 00:58:46,133
it's good to have them
1174
00:58:46,733 --> 00:58:48,466
in the airtight box
1175
00:58:50,366 --> 00:58:52,199
before I start showing you an
1176
00:58:52,266 --> 00:58:55,333
eye portrait that I'm going to demonstrate
1177
00:58:55,566 --> 00:58:56,799
so that's the way
1178
00:58:56,966 --> 00:58:58,766
and now we can talk about
1179
00:58:59,133 --> 00:59:00,499
this sheet here
1180
00:59:01,933 --> 00:59:05,466
this chart for which you have a photocopy
1181
00:59:05,733 --> 00:59:07,599
but I've got the originals here
1182
00:59:07,733 --> 00:59:10,299
so it's much better color quality
1183
00:59:10,466 --> 00:59:13,933
shows the complete sequence from a piece of copper
1184
00:59:13,933 --> 00:59:16,566
all the way through to a finished portrait
1185
00:59:16,866 --> 00:59:18,766
although I haven't done the full face
1186
00:59:18,766 --> 00:59:20,566
it just would have taken a long time
1187
00:59:21,266 --> 00:59:24,399
it was an enamel painting friend who I trained up
1188
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:25,533
who helped me with this
1189
00:59:25,533 --> 00:59:27,966
and it took 60 firings as it was
1190
00:59:27,966 --> 00:59:29,766
to complete this whole sequence
1191
00:59:29,766 --> 00:59:32,066
and that's mainly down that side obviously
1192
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:34,400
so it's got many layers
1193
00:59:35,066 --> 00:59:38,766
about seven layers altogether to this point
1194
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:40,900
starting with a piece of copper
1195
00:59:41,100 --> 00:59:42,766
this is domed
1196
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:44,966
already and it's actually been punched out
1197
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:46,933
with hydraulics
1198
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,933
and what I've done is to counter enamel it
1199
00:59:50,066 --> 00:59:51,499
because as you know
1200
00:59:51,500 --> 00:59:53,466
if you don't have counter enamel on the back
1201
00:59:53,466 --> 00:59:55,366
and you just have enamel on the front
1202
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,566
at some stage it may just ping off
1203
00:59:57,566 --> 00:59:59,933
because it's not an equal tension on those
1204
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:01,733
sides of the copper
1205
01:00:01,766 --> 01:00:03,866
making a sandwich of glass
1206
01:00:03,966 --> 01:00:06,299
copper glass on the other side
1207
01:00:07,900 --> 01:00:11,400
you can also paint on steel as you've seen
1208
01:00:12,166 --> 01:00:13,733
or on silver
1209
01:00:14,466 --> 01:00:16,499
or eating carrot gold the dream of all
1210
01:00:16,500 --> 01:00:18,666
because it just doesn't move in the kill
1211
01:00:18,666 --> 01:00:20,733
it just stays completely stable
1212
01:00:20,766 --> 01:00:21,866
the shape that you've made
1213
01:00:21,866 --> 01:00:24,966
and it will also go through many many firings about 30
1214
01:00:25,133 --> 01:00:28,199
maximum whereas silver and copper
1215
01:00:28,466 --> 01:00:31,699
may take about 12 firings and same with steel
1216
01:00:31,700 --> 01:00:33,866
before they begin to get a little bit tired
1217
01:00:33,966 --> 01:00:35,966
so you just have to plan accordingly
1218
01:00:36,966 --> 01:00:41,533
so the top coat on the front side of the enamel
1219
01:00:41,566 --> 01:00:45,199
is actually a clear flux that I've fired on
1220
01:00:45,333 --> 01:00:47,866
and I started with diamond Flux
1221
01:00:47,866 --> 01:00:49,466
or it could be gold flux
1222
01:00:49,466 --> 01:00:50,866
or it could be a silver flux
1223
01:00:50,866 --> 01:00:52,733
which is a little bit more blue
1224
01:00:53,333 --> 01:00:55,966
but the gold flux is a lovely warm color
1225
01:00:56,066 --> 01:00:58,733
and just enhances the portrait
1226
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:00,766
on the copper
1227
01:01:01,300 --> 01:01:02,966
then I would add
1228
01:01:03,700 --> 01:01:05,866
a layer of Opal or lesson
1229
01:01:06,966 --> 01:01:09,766
so you've got your two firings here
1230
01:01:10,133 --> 01:01:11,933
and under here
1231
01:01:12,700 --> 01:01:14,000
firing at the same time
1232
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:14,700
it's quite good
1233
01:01:14,700 --> 01:01:17,333
if you can put the country Namal on the other
1234
01:01:17,333 --> 01:01:18,699
side of the gold flux
1235
01:01:18,700 --> 01:01:20,400
and the country Namal on the other side
1236
01:01:20,666 --> 01:01:22,466
of this Opal
1237
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:26,266
the Opal used to be Sawyer 101
1238
01:01:26,933 --> 01:01:29,599
it can also be shower 64
1239
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:31,100
and that works very well
1240
01:01:31,266 --> 01:01:32,266
and you may have
1241
01:01:32,266 --> 01:01:35,133
other ideas and then share them with us please
1242
01:01:35,666 --> 01:01:40,499
so there's a second coat of Opal that's wet laid
1243
01:01:40,666 --> 01:01:42,699
and dried and then fired
1244
01:01:42,700 --> 01:01:44,100
and a third layer
1245
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:45,766
as you can see it's going wide
1246
01:01:45,766 --> 01:01:49,099
whiter but it still has a pinkness to it
1247
01:01:49,100 --> 01:01:50,966
which enhances the portrait
1248
01:01:51,300 --> 01:01:52,533
and finally
1249
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:56,733
that layer when it's cooled has been stoned back
1250
01:01:56,733 --> 01:01:58,533
and then it's fired again
1251
01:01:58,700 --> 01:02:00,800
and then it's absolutely smooth
1252
01:02:01,266 --> 01:02:04,499
so if there's any roughness in these two
1253
01:02:04,700 --> 01:02:07,000
and in the third layer in fact
1254
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,733
then you just stone it back with diagraette
1255
01:02:09,733 --> 01:02:11,366
to make it completely smooth
1256
01:02:12,566 --> 01:02:15,999
so this side now shows the sequence of the portrait
1257
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:19,366
painting and you first we've got the pencil line
1258
01:02:19,366 --> 01:02:21,599
that's been added to
1259
01:02:21,900 --> 01:02:24,800
modeling clay has been rolled over this piece
1260
01:02:24,866 --> 01:02:26,399
and it's then
1261
01:02:26,500 --> 01:02:29,866
acting as a key for the pencil line that's transferred
1262
01:02:29,966 --> 01:02:31,966
with a fine scribe
1263
01:02:32,466 --> 01:02:34,866
because if you use a thick pencil lead
1264
01:02:34,866 --> 01:02:37,566
then it's obviously going to show as a wide line
1265
01:02:37,566 --> 01:02:41,499
so the finest that you can manage just to see enough
1266
01:02:41,700 --> 01:02:44,333
to follow the contours for the painting
1267
01:02:44,666 --> 01:02:47,366
and you're going to be replacing each of those
1268
01:02:47,500 --> 01:02:49,766
fine pencil lines with paint
1269
01:02:50,333 --> 01:02:52,166
so if you're not confident
1270
01:02:52,166 --> 01:02:54,133
which I'm not when I'm doing portrait
1271
01:02:54,133 --> 01:02:57,666
I would fire the pencil line in place
1272
01:02:58,133 --> 01:03:01,799
no higher than 750 degrees centigrade or 13 80
1273
01:03:01,900 --> 01:03:03,133
to Fahrenheit
1274
01:03:03,266 --> 01:03:05,366
and then you fix the pencil line
1275
01:03:05,366 --> 01:03:08,266
so that when you're adding painted line
1276
01:03:08,266 --> 01:03:09,466
if you're not sure
1277
01:03:09,466 --> 01:03:11,866
about putting that painted line in the right place
1278
01:03:11,866 --> 01:03:12,899
you can wipe it off
1279
01:03:12,900 --> 01:03:14,966
knowing that you've still got the pencil line there
1280
01:03:14,966 --> 01:03:15,933
for reference
1281
01:03:16,500 --> 01:03:19,066
so you fire on the painted line
1282
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:22,166
and then you start to model the portrait
1283
01:03:22,166 --> 01:03:24,266
so this is the first wash
1284
01:03:24,966 --> 01:03:26,066
laying it on very
1285
01:03:26,066 --> 01:03:28,699
very thinly so that it just shows through
1286
01:03:29,500 --> 01:03:32,333
because it's like layers of tissue paper where
1287
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:34,400
one layer shows through another
1288
01:03:34,900 --> 01:03:37,266
so that's then fired and fixed
1289
01:03:37,266 --> 01:03:39,599
and then the second layer is applied
1290
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:41,966
and it's gradually developing
1291
01:03:42,166 --> 01:03:44,166
using this follow through
1292
01:03:44,533 --> 01:03:49,799
until here you've got four and fifth and sixth
1293
01:03:50,466 --> 01:03:52,866
that's been through the Kiln three more times
1294
01:03:53,100 --> 01:03:55,933
it's like adding seven layers of skin really
1295
01:03:56,333 --> 01:03:59,466
so that's actually had six layers
1296
01:03:59,933 --> 01:04:01,333
of the painted
1297
01:04:02,066 --> 01:04:03,766
so each time
1298
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:07,466
753 needs you to and you can't go wrong really
1299
01:04:07,966 --> 01:04:09,933
so we're now going to
1300
01:04:09,933 --> 01:04:12,799
move on to an actual portrait of a loving eye
1301
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:16,766
but first I'm going to fire up this sphere
1302
01:04:16,766 --> 01:04:19,366
to show you how it looks when it comes out of the Kiln
1303
01:04:19,366 --> 01:04:20,299
so there it is
1304
01:04:20,300 --> 01:04:23,500
looking rather matte because the glycerol has dried
1305
01:04:31,100 --> 01:04:33,933
I've got some family portraits of my own
1306
01:04:33,933 --> 01:04:37,133
in my own collection that I've brought to show you
1307
01:04:37,333 --> 01:04:41,399
and it shows over about 20 years I suppose
1308
01:04:42,166 --> 01:04:43,299
a sequence
1309
01:04:44,100 --> 01:04:46,166
this was the first one
1310
01:04:46,300 --> 01:04:48,133
and I put in a very
1311
01:04:48,133 --> 01:04:50,566
tentative background around this child
1312
01:04:51,300 --> 01:04:53,600
you can see the pinkiness of the Opal
1313
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:54,600
I rather liked it
1314
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,866
and I've just enhanced it a little bit
1315
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,700
around the shoulders and the hair and so on
1316
01:04:59,700 --> 01:05:02,500
otherwise I've left it pretty well natural
1317
01:05:02,900 --> 01:05:06,566
and I rather like the stripiness of Lucy's outfit
1318
01:05:07,333 --> 01:05:09,066
with the cat stripes
1319
01:05:10,300 --> 01:05:13,966
the next one round about the same time
1320
01:05:13,966 --> 01:05:15,299
the background
1321
01:05:15,766 --> 01:05:17,899
was inspired by trick to Turkey
1322
01:05:17,900 --> 01:05:21,266
and saw Turkish tilings and just
1323
01:05:21,366 --> 01:05:23,399
thought that that would work quite well
1324
01:05:23,733 --> 01:05:27,466
so here's the background to this brother and sister
1325
01:05:28,100 --> 01:05:29,666
it's my Nissa nephew
1326
01:05:30,133 --> 01:05:33,966
and I used white
1327
01:05:34,866 --> 01:05:37,333
transfer paper at that stage
1328
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:39,533
that was the method that I was taught
1329
01:05:39,533 --> 01:05:41,299
and it's described in the book
1330
01:05:41,733 --> 01:05:42,533
but it was
1331
01:05:42,566 --> 01:05:45,766
very difficult to actually see the white line
1332
01:05:45,766 --> 01:05:47,733
you had to remove the chalkiness
1333
01:05:47,733 --> 01:05:50,699
it's the transfer paper that they use in dress making
1334
01:05:51,066 --> 01:05:52,799
and then you remove the chalkiness
1335
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:54,800
and then you've just got a greasy line
1336
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:56,966
and that's what you put the paint line
1337
01:05:56,966 --> 01:05:58,799
over to start the sequence
1338
01:05:59,266 --> 01:06:00,666
and in this one
1339
01:06:01,100 --> 01:06:05,766
I've used pencil and this is the baby 14 years later
1340
01:06:06,133 --> 01:06:09,899
and in this it's interesting to show
1341
01:06:10,100 --> 01:06:12,066
how I was exploring
1342
01:06:12,333 --> 01:06:15,566
backgrounds made with underglaze painting
1343
01:06:15,866 --> 01:06:18,466
so when I had finished the background painting it was
1344
01:06:18,566 --> 01:06:19,766
pretty well black
1345
01:06:19,766 --> 01:06:21,466
using underglazed black
1346
01:06:22,133 --> 01:06:23,366
not the overglaze
1347
01:06:23,366 --> 01:06:25,066
and I've got a test piece here
1348
01:06:25,466 --> 01:06:27,799
because I discovered that putting the
1349
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:29,533
third layer of Opal
1350
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:33,900
over the top made it go this gorgeous inky blue
1351
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:36,800
so I rather enjoyed that background
1352
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:40,466
and in some I've then tinted it a little bit more with
1353
01:06:40,766 --> 01:06:43,266
some blue and lavender colored paints
1354
01:06:43,266 --> 01:06:44,766
just to enhance that
1355
01:06:45,100 --> 01:06:47,366
but otherwise that's the effect you get
1356
01:06:47,366 --> 01:06:48,899
with underglaze black
1357
01:06:48,900 --> 01:06:51,000
and you don't guess it with overglaze
1358
01:06:52,133 --> 01:06:55,466
I did the same with this one of my grandfather
1359
01:06:55,700 --> 01:06:57,933
and he loved writing poetry
1360
01:06:57,933 --> 01:07:01,166
so I writ one of his poems in the background using
1361
01:07:01,166 --> 01:07:04,733
underglaze and then put the Opal air over the top
1362
01:07:05,066 --> 01:07:06,966
so I had a white silhouette
1363
01:07:06,966 --> 01:07:08,733
and then I started the painting
1364
01:07:08,733 --> 01:07:11,799
so all the background was done before the painting
1365
01:07:12,933 --> 01:07:15,966
then I did this one of my mother
1366
01:07:16,900 --> 01:07:19,666
when I'd moved on to working with gold
1367
01:07:19,666 --> 01:07:23,099
and I really wanted to put in a background
1368
01:07:23,366 --> 01:07:26,933
that would represent her love of shawls
1369
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:30,666
so I've got the Paisley shawl in the background
1370
01:07:31,066 --> 01:07:31,533
although
1371
01:07:31,533 --> 01:07:34,133
she's known for her studies of the Noridge shawl
1372
01:07:34,366 --> 01:07:37,766
and all of that background was worked again
1373
01:07:37,766 --> 01:07:39,933
with a white silhouette and
1374
01:07:40,266 --> 01:07:42,366
before I did any sort of painting
1375
01:07:42,666 --> 01:07:45,866
I had all the gold in place
1376
01:07:45,866 --> 01:07:49,299
that's gold foil in the background and gold lustre
1377
01:07:49,566 --> 01:07:51,166
and painting it up
1378
01:07:53,966 --> 01:07:55,666
the most recent one
1379
01:07:57,133 --> 01:08:00,666
this is a loving well faithful eye I would call it
1380
01:08:00,666 --> 01:08:02,966
of my dog spice
1381
01:08:03,266 --> 01:08:04,999
and I
1382
01:08:05,733 --> 01:08:08,133
thought it would be quite interesting to show my
1383
01:08:08,166 --> 01:08:10,799
silhouette in the pupil of Harai
1384
01:08:10,933 --> 01:08:13,466
I just noticed it after I had taken
1385
01:08:13,933 --> 01:08:17,366
the photos they're just catching the light there
1386
01:08:17,366 --> 01:08:18,866
hope you can see that
1387
01:08:19,266 --> 01:08:23,933
so any eye is a great study if you have access
1388
01:08:24,100 --> 01:08:27,700
which you do to your own eye your pets eye or whatever
1389
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,166
well magnification
1390
01:08:33,133 --> 01:08:35,533
I have changed over the years
1391
01:08:35,700 --> 01:08:39,500
when I was taught my teacher had a handheld
1392
01:08:39,566 --> 01:08:41,299
pocket lens like this
1393
01:08:41,766 --> 01:08:44,133
and she held that in her left hand
1394
01:08:44,133 --> 01:08:45,466
and painted with her right
1395
01:08:45,466 --> 01:08:47,266
so that she had everything in view
1396
01:08:47,700 --> 01:08:51,933
I've got this piece here
1397
01:08:52,733 --> 01:08:55,166
which has a Halo light around it
1398
01:08:55,566 --> 01:08:58,399
and it can be used for all sorts of craft work
1399
01:08:59,133 --> 01:09:02,499
so it's got the magnifying lens in the middle
1400
01:09:02,700 --> 01:09:05,966
and for using larger pieces this is really useful
1401
01:09:05,966 --> 01:09:08,733
because the microscope that I'm going to show you is
1402
01:09:08,733 --> 01:09:10,199
quite confining
1403
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:12,400
in the pool of light and the
1404
01:09:12,533 --> 01:09:14,299
sight size that you're looking at
1405
01:09:15,900 --> 01:09:17,566
so that's another option
1406
01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:21,933
another way is to get some magnifying specs
1407
01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:23,866
like these ones
1408
01:09:25,500 --> 01:09:29,866
and you can also get clip on magnifiers like these
1409
01:09:29,933 --> 01:09:32,899
that you can attach to your normal spectacles
1410
01:09:32,900 --> 01:09:34,366
so here's the clip
1411
01:09:34,866 --> 01:09:36,866
and this is my preferred method
1412
01:09:36,866 --> 01:09:39,666
when I'm sitting at the easel painting
1413
01:09:41,366 --> 01:09:43,133
so these are another sort
1414
01:09:43,133 --> 01:09:45,399
and make sure that they're absolutely vertical
1415
01:09:45,500 --> 01:09:46,866
in line with the work
1416
01:09:47,366 --> 01:09:48,999
and then along here
1417
01:09:49,566 --> 01:09:52,199
we've got the actual magnifying
1418
01:09:54,533 --> 01:09:57,399
wizard of all which is a like a microscope
1419
01:09:57,900 --> 01:10:00,800
and I was lucky enough to be able to
1420
01:10:01,266 --> 01:10:03,133
make a donation for this
1421
01:10:03,133 --> 01:10:04,733
only rather than have to buy it
1422
01:10:04,733 --> 01:10:07,266
because some people in our village
1423
01:10:07,566 --> 01:10:09,966
used microscopes to
1424
01:10:10,700 --> 01:10:13,366
reclaim gold from computer parts
1425
01:10:13,366 --> 01:10:16,166
so all their workers were working
1426
01:10:16,166 --> 01:10:19,133
under microscopes and getting the gold back
1427
01:10:19,533 --> 01:10:21,199
and when they finished their business
1428
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:23,500
they had all these microscopes and their barn
1429
01:10:23,766 --> 01:10:26,866
and I was very interested in this one and they were
1430
01:10:27,300 --> 01:10:29,366
very generous in giving it to me
1431
01:10:29,366 --> 01:10:31,199
and I made a donation to the village
1432
01:10:31,333 --> 01:10:33,666
and I've got LCD
1433
01:10:33,866 --> 01:10:37,666
lighting here which is endable and wonderful to
1434
01:10:37,733 --> 01:10:40,866
really focus in on what you're looking at here
1435
01:10:41,133 --> 01:10:41,766
and you
1436
01:10:41,766 --> 01:10:45,533
can adjust this up and down according to your height
1437
01:10:45,566 --> 01:10:47,499
to be able to get this at the right
1438
01:10:47,766 --> 01:10:51,166
and it is really nice to be able to stand to your work
1439
01:10:51,166 --> 01:10:53,566
sometimes you'll have been sitting down all the time
1440
01:10:53,866 --> 01:10:54,866
so I like
1441
01:10:54,866 --> 01:10:55,933
working at the microscope
1442
01:10:55,933 --> 01:10:57,866
at the beginning of a portrait
1443
01:10:58,366 --> 01:11:01,333
when I'm making the fine lines and at the end
1444
01:11:01,466 --> 01:11:03,699
for the final layer of painting
1445
01:11:03,700 --> 01:11:05,000
that works very well
1446
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:07,500
to be able to see the final detail that you're putting
1447
01:11:07,500 --> 01:11:12,000
on and although you can't necessarily see the detail
1448
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:14,333
when you're holding a piece and looking by eye
1449
01:11:14,533 --> 01:11:15,799
it is there
1450
01:11:16,500 --> 01:11:19,000
under the microscope and you know that
1451
01:11:19,266 --> 01:11:20,799
everything that you see under the microscope
1452
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:22,733
has to be able to be magnified
1453
01:11:22,766 --> 01:11:24,499
to actual size
1454
01:11:24,766 --> 01:11:25,866
so to recap
1455
01:11:25,866 --> 01:11:28,366
we've got various stilts to put into the Kiln
1456
01:11:28,366 --> 01:11:30,133
and this is the one that I recommend
1457
01:11:30,133 --> 01:11:31,966
which is ceramic fiber board
1458
01:11:32,166 --> 01:11:33,899
and it's got Kiln
1459
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:38,500
clear slip over the top of it which is being baked on
1460
01:11:39,866 --> 01:11:41,699
titanium mesh we've been using
1461
01:11:41,700 --> 01:11:43,766
because there's no chance of any
1462
01:11:44,066 --> 01:11:46,533
nasty lusty oxide
1463
01:11:47,133 --> 01:11:49,533
bouncing off onto the work and spoiling it
1464
01:11:50,500 --> 01:11:54,333
just going to demonstration of putting a stack of
1465
01:11:54,766 --> 01:11:57,133
stainless steel supports
1466
01:11:57,133 --> 01:12:00,966
of various kinds onto the ceramic fiber board
1467
01:12:01,266 --> 01:12:01,799
to show you what
1468
01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:03,266
happens when it goes in the Kiln
1469
01:12:03,266 --> 01:12:04,666
and when you bring it out
1470
01:12:04,766 --> 01:12:05,566
and
1471
01:12:06,066 --> 01:12:07,966
a nice bit of clean
1472
01:12:09,166 --> 01:12:12,299
ceramic fiber board piled high
1473
01:12:13,666 --> 01:12:16,866
with other supports which I don't recommend using
1474
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:19,900
and this is going to go into the Kiln
1475
01:12:20,533 --> 01:12:22,999
sometime there's already something in there
1476
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:25,666
because I've got some ceramic fireboard in there
1477
01:12:25,666 --> 01:12:27,866
for firing the next piece
1478
01:12:29,366 --> 01:12:31,299
we'll just put that on top
1479
01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:35,100
and just leave it for a little while
1480
01:12:35,700 --> 01:12:38,600
so the Kiln temperature's dropped to about 700
1481
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:41,000
and it's just going to climb back up again
1482
01:12:41,466 --> 01:12:45,333
so when it set say 760 I'll be taking that out
1483
01:12:46,333 --> 01:12:49,666
the Kiln has now reached a high temperature
1484
01:12:49,766 --> 01:12:51,766
and everything's glowing in there
1485
01:12:51,766 --> 01:12:53,766
so I'm just gonna lift it all out
1486
01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:58,166
take it down there cool down
1487
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:00,466
and shut that down
1488
01:13:01,133 --> 01:13:04,133
actually while that's cooling we've confired the spear
1489
01:13:04,133 --> 01:13:07,366
so don't be tempted to touch you with your fingers
1490
01:13:07,866 --> 01:13:10,533
use a butter knife and just slide it across air
1491
01:13:10,733 --> 01:13:14,533
the faster tooling and it also gets any oxide well away
1492
01:13:15,133 --> 01:13:16,399
so what I'm going to do now
1493
01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:17,766
so I'm going to take out this
1494
01:13:17,866 --> 01:13:19,366
piece of ceramic fiber board
1495
01:13:19,366 --> 01:13:20,499
that has been sitting in the kill
1496
01:13:20,500 --> 01:13:22,166
and so it's nice and hot
1497
01:13:22,300 --> 01:13:25,500
and will far more quickly because this piece
1498
01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:28,266
which I'm just going to lower gently onto there
1499
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:31,533
is quite a thick piece of stainless steel
1500
01:13:34,966 --> 01:13:38,866
so once again the just check has it started steaming
1501
01:13:40,766 --> 01:13:42,133
using our special singles
1502
01:13:42,333 --> 01:13:44,399
just put it back in place
1503
01:13:46,966 --> 01:13:49,333
this one might not steam as much to use
1504
01:13:49,366 --> 01:13:50,899
the fact that I already dried a bit
1505
01:13:50,900 --> 01:13:53,333
that's true it's been sitting on the side hasn't it
1506
01:13:53,333 --> 01:13:56,066
and it's in a very hot ambient temperature
1507
01:13:56,800 --> 01:13:58,200
so that's enough
1508
01:13:59,466 --> 01:14:03,166
put it to the back and wait for the Kiln to climb up
1509
01:14:05,300 --> 01:14:06,100
now
1510
01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:09,566
have a look at this
1511
01:14:10,300 --> 01:14:12,566
you see what's happened on the move here
1512
01:14:13,566 --> 01:14:14,899
just remove these
1513
01:14:16,766 --> 01:14:18,066
you can spy a bit
1514
01:14:18,300 --> 01:14:20,500
yep there's a few bits on there
1515
01:14:20,533 --> 01:14:23,699
which I would not be happy with if they had come
1516
01:14:23,733 --> 01:14:26,899
on to the actual enamel that you're using
1517
01:14:27,133 --> 01:14:29,366
so do not use these
1518
01:14:31,066 --> 01:14:32,399
it's just not worth it
1519
01:14:32,866 --> 01:14:35,566
and sometimes if those need cleaning
1520
01:14:35,566 --> 01:14:37,266
and they've just been used many
1521
01:14:37,266 --> 01:14:39,366
many times it gets worse
1522
01:14:39,666 --> 01:14:43,133
so it's just not worth even one spec
1523
01:14:47,333 --> 01:14:49,699
there is a way of cleaning those
1524
01:14:50,100 --> 01:14:53,666
steel piles or the titanium mesh
1525
01:14:53,733 --> 01:14:56,899
that has any little bits of enamel glass in there
1526
01:14:56,933 --> 01:15:00,133
and that is to heat it up to a reasonable temperature
1527
01:15:00,133 --> 01:15:02,166
and then quench it into water
1528
01:15:02,500 --> 01:15:06,800
not straight away but just after about counter 2 or 3
1529
01:15:06,933 --> 01:15:08,966
and that will just crack off
1530
01:15:09,100 --> 01:15:12,533
any enamel glass there and return the metal mesh
1531
01:15:12,533 --> 01:15:14,099
so that's quite a good idea
1532
01:15:14,900 --> 01:15:19,100
um after firing the sphere when it reaches 7:50
1533
01:15:19,133 --> 01:15:22,766
I'm then going to show you how to make a loving eye
1534
01:15:23,866 --> 01:15:26,766
here I've just painted my own eye
1535
01:15:27,733 --> 01:15:31,099
nothing easier is there and just look at yourself
1536
01:15:31,166 --> 01:15:33,733
take a photo take a selfie of your eye
1537
01:15:33,933 --> 01:15:36,799
and then set about painting it in the sequence
1538
01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:37,966
that I'll show you
1539
01:15:38,166 --> 01:15:40,399
so first of all I'd be making
1540
01:15:41,466 --> 01:15:42,266
a
1541
01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:44,000
photo
1542
01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:47,966
and I print it out on plain paper
1543
01:15:48,533 --> 01:15:51,333
and then I would print a glossy version
1544
01:15:51,333 --> 01:15:53,333
so that that's best quality
1545
01:15:54,766 --> 01:15:56,999
and then I'd make a tracing
1546
01:15:58,133 --> 01:16:00,499
and that's what we'll do back at the bench
1547
01:16:00,866 --> 01:16:03,699
so I'm going to take out this little piece now
1548
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:05,333
it should be fully hard
1549
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:08,066
because it reached 750
1550
01:16:11,266 --> 01:16:14,599
and we've got the light over just catching the light
1551
01:16:14,866 --> 01:16:17,733
but interestingly it's not quite fired
1552
01:16:17,733 --> 01:16:20,499
so it goes back in the Kiln for a little bit longer
1553
01:16:25,733 --> 01:16:28,666
it's much easier to put something back in the Kiln
1554
01:16:28,700 --> 01:16:31,566
but obviously if it's been in there too long
1555
01:16:31,700 --> 01:16:33,133
if the piece is too small
1556
01:16:33,133 --> 01:16:35,166
and it's been in there too long and over fired
1557
01:16:35,166 --> 01:16:37,899
nothing you can really do about that I'm afraid
1558
01:16:38,133 --> 01:16:40,133
so that's got to climb back up
1559
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:45,933
just give it an extra boost and hopes that will work
1560
01:16:50,866 --> 01:16:52,466
not quite fired
1561
01:16:52,766 --> 01:16:54,266
let's have a close look at that
1562
01:16:54,266 --> 01:16:55,766
so we can get it on camera
1563
01:16:56,366 --> 01:16:59,166
there you can see the matte texture
1564
01:16:59,666 --> 01:17:03,533
and it's perhaps because I've used more of the white
1565
01:17:03,533 --> 01:17:04,766
which is slightly higher
1566
01:17:04,766 --> 01:17:06,899
firing than any of the other paint colors
1567
01:17:06,900 --> 01:17:08,400
so it's going to go back in again
1568
01:17:17,100 --> 01:17:18,200
shut that down
1569
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:20,000
let it sync for a bit
1570
01:17:20,566 --> 01:17:22,699
rise in temperature and then hold it
1571
01:17:26,666 --> 01:17:30,133
okay so the temperature is climbing back up to 7 50
1572
01:17:30,266 --> 01:17:31,766
quite quickly now
1573
01:17:32,133 --> 01:17:35,899
and I shall take out the enamel at that point
1574
01:17:35,900 --> 01:17:38,666
and check that it's smoothly fired
1575
01:17:38,666 --> 01:17:41,466
it's got to be glossy all over to work
1576
01:17:43,566 --> 01:17:44,666
this is
1577
01:17:45,366 --> 01:17:46,566
near the point
1578
01:17:47,133 --> 01:17:48,466
and it's so easily
1579
01:17:48,700 --> 01:17:51,733
you're so easily distracted at this point possibly
1580
01:17:52,333 --> 01:17:54,733
so I've got a mat to stand on
1581
01:17:54,733 --> 01:17:57,099
and once you're standing on the mat you're glued to it
1582
01:17:57,933 --> 01:17:59,333
do not leave it
1583
01:17:59,900 --> 01:18:01,200
you could just walk away
1584
01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:04,166
and look at your phone and get distracted
1585
01:18:04,166 --> 01:18:05,299
so here we go
1586
01:18:07,766 --> 01:18:08,866
that's it
1587
01:18:11,366 --> 01:18:15,266
she comes and shut the Kiln door quickly
1588
01:18:16,366 --> 01:18:18,066
and then look at that
1589
01:18:18,700 --> 01:18:19,500
under
1590
01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:24,900
the light you can just see it's gone glossy all over
1591
01:18:25,266 --> 01:18:26,966
so I'm happy with that firing
1592
01:18:26,966 --> 01:18:28,499
now can you see that Oscar
1593
01:18:29,066 --> 01:18:31,766
if you tilt him one more little bit so it doesn't
1594
01:18:31,933 --> 01:18:33,866
fall down tilt back again
1595
01:18:33,866 --> 01:18:34,666
yep
1596
01:18:35,300 --> 01:18:37,100
there you go and side to side
1597
01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:39,900
good and then you'll see that cool down
1598
01:18:40,700 --> 01:18:42,466
now it does stick for a little bit
1599
01:18:42,466 --> 01:18:43,699
because I said before
1600
01:18:44,533 --> 01:18:47,266
yeah because it's been in there quite a long time
1601
01:18:47,500 --> 01:18:50,666
the counter enamel has stuck to the
1602
01:18:51,266 --> 01:18:54,366
clay slip which is on the ceramic fiber board
1603
01:18:54,366 --> 01:18:56,499
but it will just come away of its own accord
1604
01:18:56,500 --> 01:19:00,800
as the enamel contracts and cools it will just lift
1605
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:02,800
so it's best to just leave it
1606
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:05,800
now I'm at the painting desk now
1607
01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:08,866
and I've got a vertical easel setup here
1608
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:12,466
which was an affordable painting easel
1609
01:19:12,500 --> 01:19:14,666
to which I've added this block of wood
1610
01:19:15,100 --> 01:19:19,400
and then I stick the enamelon here using Loot Hack
1611
01:19:20,266 --> 01:19:23,099
on the painting desk I've got the box
1612
01:19:23,100 --> 01:19:25,666
which these clip on specs came out of
1613
01:19:25,700 --> 01:19:27,866
and the make is Eshan Bark
1614
01:19:27,866 --> 01:19:29,533
if you're wanting to follow that up
1615
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:32,366
they come in various magnifications
1616
01:19:32,366 --> 01:19:34,933
and this one is about twice
1617
01:19:34,933 --> 01:19:36,366
and that's all I need
1618
01:19:37,133 --> 01:19:38,166
when I'm working here
1619
01:19:38,166 --> 01:19:41,066
I would clip these two prescription specs
1620
01:19:41,900 --> 01:19:43,533
what I'm using the
1621
01:19:43,966 --> 01:19:47,466
at the bench here or the painting desk is these
1622
01:19:47,500 --> 01:19:49,066
magnifying glasses
1623
01:19:49,266 --> 01:19:52,699
and it just reminded me using the microscope
1624
01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:56,533
but that's what I used to study the 18th century
1625
01:19:56,533 --> 01:20:00,066
exquisite portraits to find out how they painted them
1626
01:20:00,466 --> 01:20:03,133
and you could see all sorts of little scrafito
1627
01:20:03,133 --> 01:20:06,399
marks that they made in the hair to give it texture
1628
01:20:07,133 --> 01:20:10,866
you could see the pontalistic dots the cross hatching
1629
01:20:11,466 --> 01:20:13,666
the layers of color on lace
1630
01:20:13,666 --> 01:20:15,333
you could see where they had put
1631
01:20:15,566 --> 01:20:19,066
dense dark dots of color onto white
1632
01:20:19,466 --> 01:20:22,366
and it was just fascinating to the learn
1633
01:20:22,366 --> 01:20:25,366
from people who had paint dead for centuries
1634
01:20:25,733 --> 01:20:28,199
but it's possible when you go into museums
1635
01:20:28,200 --> 01:20:30,100
to see these wonderful miniatures
1636
01:20:30,500 --> 01:20:36,366
so here I've got a sequence of the painting of my eye
1637
01:20:37,066 --> 01:20:40,366
and starting at this end I've got the line drawing
1638
01:20:40,700 --> 01:20:43,066
which has the painted layer on it
1639
01:20:43,466 --> 01:20:46,133
and then I've got the first layer
1640
01:20:46,300 --> 01:20:48,800
of paint that's been fired on
1641
01:20:49,066 --> 01:20:51,466
just all painting quite tentatively
1642
01:20:51,766 --> 01:20:54,533
and then the next layer has been built up
1643
01:20:54,533 --> 01:20:56,533
and you can see the
1644
01:20:57,700 --> 01:21:00,066
3D effect beginning to take shape
1645
01:21:00,566 --> 01:21:02,366
until the final layer
1646
01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:04,900
shows it to be more realistic
1647
01:21:04,900 --> 01:21:07,300
with all these dense shadows and so on
1648
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:12,366
depending on the age of the person is just how many
1649
01:21:12,533 --> 01:21:14,366
little wrinkles you put in
1650
01:21:14,366 --> 01:21:19,799
and how much the white of the eye has shading
1651
01:21:20,500 --> 01:21:21,533
but in a baby
1652
01:21:21,533 --> 01:21:24,899
it's just amazing to see a kind of porcelain white
1653
01:21:24,900 --> 01:21:26,400
of the baby's eye
1654
01:21:26,700 --> 01:21:28,000
and you'll
1655
01:21:28,666 --> 01:21:31,799
just see that it's really about observation
1656
01:21:31,866 --> 01:21:33,966
and what you're seeing before your eyes
1657
01:21:33,966 --> 01:21:35,533
plus a little bit of editing
1658
01:21:35,533 --> 01:21:37,999
and if you want to be kind to somebody
1659
01:21:38,166 --> 01:21:41,066
and make them look 10 years younger
1660
01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:42,900
than it's very obvious how
1661
01:21:42,900 --> 01:21:45,200
you just lift the eyelids a bit
1662
01:21:45,266 --> 01:21:46,999
and lift that a little bit
1663
01:21:47,366 --> 01:21:49,733
and lower that and take away some wrinkles
1664
01:21:49,733 --> 01:21:51,333
and you've got a change person
1665
01:21:51,333 --> 01:21:53,199
which is probably unrecognizable
1666
01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:56,666
so I'm going to go to this piece
1667
01:21:56,666 --> 01:21:59,199
which has already had the paint line
1668
01:21:59,366 --> 01:22:02,166
over the pencil line and it's been fired
1669
01:22:02,366 --> 01:22:05,399
and I'm going to demonstrate how to build up the first
1670
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:07,766
wash to make it like this
1671
01:22:07,966 --> 01:22:10,299
so I've got the sequence there for reference
1672
01:22:10,300 --> 01:22:12,066
we've got the paints down here
1673
01:22:12,133 --> 01:22:13,966
and I'm going to be talking through
1674
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:16,666
which paint colors I'm using all the time
1675
01:22:16,933 --> 01:22:19,333
so I've got a little pot of water
1676
01:22:19,666 --> 01:22:21,699
and then I've got my glitzerol there
1677
01:22:21,866 --> 01:22:25,066
as solvent and medium that I'm using
1678
01:22:25,766 --> 01:22:27,699
so our dips and dried
1679
01:22:27,700 --> 01:22:32,200
and the first thing is to lay on this waxy layer
1680
01:22:33,333 --> 01:22:37,799
all over so this is the base for the flesh color
1681
01:22:45,066 --> 01:22:48,999
and this has to be put on at the same sort of thickness
1682
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:53,133
so you don't want any ridges of this waxy white
1683
01:22:53,333 --> 01:22:54,266
you just want
1684
01:22:54,266 --> 01:22:58,299
enough to receive the flesh tones on the top
1685
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:01,333
because when the whole thing fars
1686
01:23:01,333 --> 01:23:03,533
it's all got to be about the same level
1687
01:23:06,500 --> 01:23:09,533
I'm just working quickly with a No. 1 brush
1688
01:23:09,533 --> 01:23:10,799
I could have picked a No. 2
1689
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:12,666
that would have made it a bit faster
1690
01:23:14,500 --> 01:23:15,300
this
1691
01:23:15,900 --> 01:23:18,500
glass paint is obviously very abrasive
1692
01:23:18,733 --> 01:23:21,999
and so it's wearing the sable brush down
1693
01:23:22,200 --> 01:23:24,066
much more quickly than you would wish
1694
01:23:24,133 --> 01:23:27,166
it gets to the point where the brush is perfect for you
1695
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:29,266
and then just one more
1696
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:32,533
little stroke and a hair comes away
1697
01:23:32,533 --> 01:23:35,333
and you think oh no it's not like it used to be
1698
01:23:35,333 --> 01:23:37,699
and you have to break in a new brush
1699
01:23:38,133 --> 01:23:39,599
so I get through
1700
01:23:39,966 --> 01:23:42,566
about a brush a month I think
1701
01:23:44,900 --> 01:23:46,966
but you can increase the life by
1702
01:23:47,866 --> 01:23:50,599
which I try to by giving them a shampoo
1703
01:23:51,166 --> 01:23:52,599
and looking after them well
1704
01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:57,666
and not leaving them in the medium or in the solvent
1705
01:23:58,966 --> 01:24:01,199
they're just working around here
1706
01:24:12,266 --> 01:24:16,366
so you're going everywhere except the eyeball itself
1707
01:24:17,866 --> 01:24:20,499
into the inner eyelid there
1708
01:24:21,733 --> 01:24:23,466
anything that's flesh basically
1709
01:24:28,333 --> 01:24:30,933
right now it's got that base
1710
01:24:31,466 --> 01:24:32,799
acting as a key
1711
01:24:33,133 --> 01:24:37,099
we can work into this with flash tones
1712
01:24:37,500 --> 01:24:40,366
so you can see it looks quite rich already
1713
01:24:41,500 --> 01:24:44,500
and I should really have the photograph alongside
1714
01:24:44,500 --> 01:24:47,266
that's what I want to get back to rather than
1715
01:24:47,700 --> 01:24:49,100
copying this one
1716
01:24:49,100 --> 01:24:52,133
but I think Oscar's just going to be able to reach it
1717
01:24:52,133 --> 01:24:52,933
maybe
1718
01:24:53,533 --> 01:24:54,499
that would be great
1719
01:24:56,266 --> 01:24:56,766
and
1720
01:24:56,766 --> 01:24:59,966
sometimes I will cover this with various photographs
1721
01:24:59,966 --> 01:25:01,866
and work from several
1722
01:25:02,333 --> 01:25:04,366
because I like to
1723
01:25:04,366 --> 01:25:08,133
edit the photos in order to work up the portrait
1724
01:25:08,566 --> 01:25:10,499
oh thanks Oscar that's brilliant
1725
01:25:11,100 --> 01:25:12,666
yep we'll just put that there
1726
01:25:16,466 --> 01:25:18,533
good so now I've got the photo in place
1727
01:25:18,533 --> 01:25:19,499
that's important
1728
01:25:19,500 --> 01:25:21,800
to be able to have that as the original reference
1729
01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:24,666
rather than Chinese whispers all the way down here
1730
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:28,266
I'm looking back to this and just looking at where
1731
01:25:28,300 --> 01:25:29,933
all these little lines are
1732
01:25:29,933 --> 01:25:33,133
these tiny little wrinkles that give it personality
1733
01:25:33,800 --> 01:25:35,900
so let's pull that in
1734
01:25:35,900 --> 01:25:38,800
and carrying on with the flesh color
1735
01:25:38,966 --> 01:25:41,366
I'm going to work along here
1736
01:25:42,900 --> 01:25:46,066
and down and around here
1737
01:25:46,533 --> 01:25:49,166
just keep charging up the brush with paint
1738
01:25:52,566 --> 01:25:55,333
and it's a case of dispersing the paint
1739
01:25:58,200 --> 01:26:00,766
and mixing it with this waxy layer
1740
01:26:01,666 --> 01:26:03,133
so that you've got a soft
1741
01:26:03,133 --> 01:26:05,533
pinky fleshtone coming in here
1742
01:26:10,400 --> 01:26:12,133
just a little bit of shadow there
1743
01:26:12,133 --> 01:26:14,199
but that's a bit more bluey later
1744
01:26:24,700 --> 01:26:25,600
it's a bit there
1745
01:26:25,600 --> 01:26:28,066
and then I'm going to come down here with this
1746
01:26:28,266 --> 01:26:29,866
little frown line there
1747
01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:38,100
and this one here
1748
01:26:40,700 --> 01:26:42,133
it's just incredible how
1749
01:26:42,133 --> 01:26:44,899
a tiny little stroke can make a difference
1750
01:26:45,133 --> 01:26:46,499
with the likeness
1751
01:26:47,266 --> 01:26:49,299
so I've got my 8 memoir there
1752
01:26:49,566 --> 01:26:51,199
physical features first
1753
01:26:51,333 --> 01:26:53,399
dialogue with personality
1754
01:26:53,666 --> 01:26:56,999
and mainly getting rhythm into the whole thing
1755
01:26:57,900 --> 01:27:01,400
and sometimes I'm concentrating so much on this that
1756
01:27:01,966 --> 01:27:04,499
even listening to classical music
1757
01:27:04,500 --> 01:27:05,966
you just want to switch it off
1758
01:27:05,966 --> 01:27:07,699
and just empty your mind
1759
01:27:07,700 --> 01:27:08,300
and be
1760
01:27:08,300 --> 01:27:10,900
totally fixed on what you've got in front of you
1761
01:27:11,133 --> 01:27:14,066
and then other times I am able to listen to
1762
01:27:14,066 --> 01:27:15,999
a radio play or something like that
1763
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:17,300
because it requires less
1764
01:27:17,466 --> 01:27:18,533
concentration
1765
01:27:18,566 --> 01:27:19,999
I know where I'm going with it
1766
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:22,466
but when I'm wrestling with the likeness
1767
01:27:22,966 --> 01:27:25,733
it's the most critical phase
1768
01:27:26,400 --> 01:27:28,266
and once I had to do
1769
01:27:28,300 --> 01:27:28,500
well
1770
01:27:28,500 --> 01:27:31,400
several times I've had to do an addition of portraits
1771
01:27:31,400 --> 01:27:32,366
like for
1772
01:27:33,766 --> 01:27:35,299
our Queens
1773
01:27:36,066 --> 01:27:37,399
Diamond Jubilee
1774
01:27:37,800 --> 01:27:42,500
and each one to me was just very slightly different
1775
01:27:43,333 --> 01:27:46,766
but you know people at a glance wouldn't tell
1776
01:27:46,766 --> 01:27:49,399
but if you had them all alongside each other
1777
01:27:49,733 --> 01:27:51,399
you could line them up as to which you
1778
01:27:51,400 --> 01:27:52,533
thought was the best
1779
01:27:54,133 --> 01:27:54,899
and one man
1780
01:27:54,900 --> 01:27:58,000
I had to do six portraits for his six children
1781
01:27:58,266 --> 01:28:02,899
and he decided who got what according to how he
1782
01:28:02,900 --> 01:28:06,166
his look sort of subtly changed
1783
01:28:06,300 --> 01:28:08,066
so that was quite interesting
1784
01:28:09,733 --> 01:28:10,466
but otherwise
1785
01:28:10,466 --> 01:28:13,099
you try your best to make everything the same
1786
01:28:13,100 --> 01:28:15,166
but we're not machines
1787
01:28:15,666 --> 01:28:18,899
and this is how it comes out when it's hand painted
1788
01:28:25,400 --> 01:28:28,266
so now just working down here
1789
01:28:29,766 --> 01:28:33,533
and I go into this dark of flesh tone now
1790
01:28:33,533 --> 01:28:35,899
to just catch a little bit there
1791
01:28:38,533 --> 01:28:40,166
and into this part
1792
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:44,800
and then coming down here
1793
01:28:45,700 --> 01:28:48,200
I'm off it goes into that direction
1794
01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:52,166
now if you were to use what you see as
1795
01:28:52,266 --> 01:28:55,299
perhaps a black line it just wouldn't look right
1796
01:28:55,300 --> 01:28:58,000
it would look like very heavy makeup
1797
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:01,133
so just use what you know is there
1798
01:29:01,700 --> 01:29:04,600
and that's where you're using these flesh stones
1799
01:29:05,200 --> 01:29:09,066
just like notes to play the tune on a piano
1800
01:29:12,166 --> 01:29:13,999
I'm just coming across there
1801
01:29:21,666 --> 01:29:24,566
and I'll just emphasize that one with a fine line
1802
01:29:24,566 --> 01:29:25,999
that's gonna be a bit dark now
1803
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:27,766
so I'll have to lighten that again
1804
01:29:28,733 --> 01:29:31,799
and just feeling my way with these little bits
1805
01:29:32,966 --> 01:29:34,933
and strengthening them a touch
1806
01:29:40,900 --> 01:29:41,900
and when I'm painting
1807
01:29:41,900 --> 01:29:42,900
I just have to have
1808
01:29:42,900 --> 01:29:44,966
everything just right the way I'm sitting
1809
01:29:44,966 --> 01:29:45,366
otherwise
1810
01:29:45,366 --> 01:29:48,499
you become aware that your neck's uncomfortable or
1811
01:29:49,966 --> 01:29:52,599
your legs are just getting weary or something
1812
01:29:52,600 --> 01:29:55,266
so that's why I've got the balanced variable here
1813
01:29:56,333 --> 01:29:57,899
I haven't got any back support
1814
01:29:57,900 --> 01:29:59,666
but I'm feeling comfortable
1815
01:30:03,900 --> 01:30:07,366
I've still got the Kilnon for firing this piece later
1816
01:30:07,366 --> 01:30:08,533
to show you that
1817
01:30:08,666 --> 01:30:09,666
as a demo
1818
01:30:10,266 --> 01:30:12,866
and normally I wouldn't have the Kilnon in the room
1819
01:30:13,533 --> 01:30:15,199
until the next morning
1820
01:30:15,200 --> 01:30:17,600
when I just come in and I check the work
1821
01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:18,500
and I think
1822
01:30:18,766 --> 01:30:22,266
ah no that's not quite right and it's still wet
1823
01:30:22,266 --> 01:30:23,366
to be able to
1824
01:30:23,900 --> 01:30:26,600
work into it if it's dried up is too late
1825
01:30:26,600 --> 01:30:27,400
you're committed
1826
01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:29,300
the only way is to scratch it off
1827
01:30:29,700 --> 01:30:31,366
with some scrafito
1828
01:30:32,933 --> 01:30:35,566
then fire and then patch in
1829
01:30:35,666 --> 01:30:37,699
that's not a very good way
1830
01:30:37,700 --> 01:30:41,133
but I just want to check before I fire it that morning
1831
01:30:41,966 --> 01:30:43,766
so I leave it covered up
1832
01:30:44,600 --> 01:30:45,400
overnight
1833
01:30:46,300 --> 01:30:48,800
putting this easel horizontal and
1834
01:30:49,266 --> 01:30:51,766
just laying a cardboard box
1835
01:30:51,766 --> 01:30:53,599
over the top or something like that
1836
01:30:54,333 --> 01:30:56,333
to protect it from any dust
1837
01:30:56,800 --> 01:30:59,300
and then of course it has to be fired straight away
1838
01:31:02,366 --> 01:31:05,533
so now I've got some of the puppily blue
1839
01:31:05,933 --> 01:31:09,266
which is the soft female shadow here
1840
01:31:09,266 --> 01:31:10,533
just coming up there
1841
01:31:11,366 --> 01:31:12,333
going around
1842
01:31:14,700 --> 01:31:18,066
and it just so happens to match nicely
1843
01:31:33,333 --> 01:31:34,133
okay
1844
01:31:34,666 --> 01:31:36,299
I'm gonna come back to here
1845
01:31:36,300 --> 01:31:38,600
I'm gonna load the paint with a little bit of fee
1846
01:31:38,600 --> 01:31:41,366
waxy white just to patch this in
1847
01:31:47,933 --> 01:31:51,333
I'm going to put tiny bit of this shadow
1848
01:31:51,566 --> 01:31:53,366
which is the purpley
1849
01:31:54,500 --> 01:31:56,300
blue into here
1850
01:32:09,300 --> 01:32:11,333
and when you fire this paint on
1851
01:32:11,366 --> 01:32:14,733
if you slightly under fire so it looks glossy
1852
01:32:15,200 --> 01:32:19,100
but the paint will act as a key for the next layer
1853
01:32:19,100 --> 01:32:21,500
so the brush will drag
1854
01:32:21,533 --> 01:32:24,099
over it and leave a depositive paint
1855
01:32:24,366 --> 01:32:25,699
just where you've left it
1856
01:32:25,700 --> 01:32:28,766
and it will begin to paint itself where
1857
01:32:28,933 --> 01:32:30,666
you've got some lines
1858
01:32:30,666 --> 01:32:33,099
and it will just emphasize them even more
1859
01:32:38,366 --> 01:32:41,399
so because you've seen the video of my mother
1860
01:32:41,666 --> 01:32:42,966
that portrait
1861
01:32:43,066 --> 01:32:46,866
this one is a rough example next to it
1862
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:54,133
working live and to time schedule
1863
01:32:54,466 --> 01:32:57,466
but I hope it will give you confidence to
1864
01:32:57,466 --> 01:32:59,266
make your own portraits
1865
01:32:59,766 --> 01:33:01,366
of the eye at least
1866
01:33:04,200 --> 01:33:04,933
and then
1867
01:33:04,933 --> 01:33:08,299
post it onto the Facebook page that I've set up
1868
01:33:08,300 --> 01:33:10,066
it would be lovely to see what you do
1869
01:33:10,066 --> 01:33:12,499
and everyone can learn from everyone else
1870
01:33:13,066 --> 01:33:15,299
and I'll make a comment if you like
1871
01:33:18,733 --> 01:33:21,799
positive one and then a little tip how to improve
1872
01:33:21,800 --> 01:33:23,266
so that's incentive
1873
01:33:31,166 --> 01:33:33,599
right the eye color here
1874
01:33:34,333 --> 01:33:38,199
is quite like the green and blue that I mixed already
1875
01:33:38,200 --> 01:33:41,533
so I'm going to lay this down as the base coat
1876
01:33:41,733 --> 01:33:44,066
a bit like I used the waxy layer
1877
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:45,933
I'm putting that down
1878
01:33:45,933 --> 01:33:48,866
and then I can lift anywhere where there's a highlight
1879
01:33:48,866 --> 01:33:51,666
so I'm just putting it all over and trying to follow
1880
01:33:51,866 --> 01:33:54,966
the Iris with the brush stroke so it's got these
1881
01:33:55,300 --> 01:33:57,733
paint lines radiating out like this
1882
01:34:02,100 --> 01:34:03,766
so I'm just washing the brush
1883
01:34:04,066 --> 01:34:07,933
dipping it into the glycerol and then just tidying here
1884
01:34:08,200 --> 01:34:11,733
by seeing that there's a highlight coming around here
1885
01:34:11,733 --> 01:34:13,666
so mezzle lift the paint off
1886
01:34:13,666 --> 01:34:15,899
and definitely over the top there
1887
01:34:16,300 --> 01:34:19,366
and already it's just a little bit more life into it
1888
01:34:21,300 --> 01:34:21,933
there
1889
01:34:21,933 --> 01:34:26,599
and then strengthen up the color around the outside
1890
01:34:27,366 --> 01:34:28,799
while it's still wet
1891
01:34:52,700 --> 01:34:53,600
and I remember
1892
01:34:53,600 --> 01:34:56,900
looking into my grandfather's eyes just before he died
1893
01:34:57,066 --> 01:35:00,899
and I saw this little rough colored speck
1894
01:35:01,466 --> 01:35:04,099
on his eyes or in the eye
1895
01:35:04,100 --> 01:35:04,466
which
1896
01:35:04,466 --> 01:35:07,066
I didn't know whether it had been that all the time
1897
01:35:07,333 --> 01:35:09,366
or whether that was just because he was 96
1898
01:35:09,566 --> 01:35:12,266
but then I discovered I'd got something similar
1899
01:35:12,266 --> 01:35:13,566
myself at my age
1900
01:35:13,566 --> 01:35:16,066
and I thought I've inherited that from him
1901
01:35:17,900 --> 01:35:21,533
so you really begin to look at all the colors
1902
01:35:21,666 --> 01:35:22,899
in the eye itself
1903
01:35:22,900 --> 01:35:25,000
if you just want to paint the Iris
1904
01:35:25,166 --> 01:35:26,099
that's enough
1905
01:35:26,533 --> 01:35:29,066
I've added a touch of Oka
1906
01:35:29,666 --> 01:35:31,099
in here
1907
01:35:32,366 --> 01:35:33,766
just to make a shadow
1908
01:35:34,100 --> 01:35:35,933
and I need to darken that
1909
01:35:35,933 --> 01:35:38,999
so I've added a little bit of the
1910
01:35:39,700 --> 01:35:41,566
darkest blue the bloomy
1911
01:35:42,266 --> 01:35:44,466
and then I've got the
1912
01:35:45,500 --> 01:35:48,166
blue and the green mix
1913
01:35:48,500 --> 01:35:51,666
and I'm just making that more intense there
1914
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:53,466
coming along the top
1915
01:35:53,866 --> 01:35:55,466
so just refer to your color
1916
01:35:55,466 --> 01:35:57,399
chart if you're not confident
1917
01:35:58,900 --> 01:36:01,166
and you can see the color mixes there
1918
01:36:02,300 --> 01:36:04,133
or you could do a test piece
1919
01:36:04,166 --> 01:36:05,999
before you fire the whole thing
1920
01:36:06,300 --> 01:36:07,766
just to see how they work
1921
01:36:14,966 --> 01:36:16,533
and then once again
1922
01:36:16,800 --> 01:36:19,066
the brush you can just mop up
1923
01:36:19,733 --> 01:36:21,066
to get that line
1924
01:36:21,066 --> 01:36:23,766
and then there's a little highlight there isn't there
1925
01:36:23,766 --> 01:36:28,066
just where it sits with the eyelid there
1926
01:36:28,566 --> 01:36:31,666
and I'm now going to add some
1927
01:36:32,066 --> 01:36:33,933
white into the eye
1928
01:36:34,600 --> 01:36:37,466
so that I can add some tones into that
1929
01:36:37,466 --> 01:36:39,566
don't paint straight on to the
1930
01:36:40,200 --> 01:36:41,466
enamel itself
1931
01:36:56,166 --> 01:36:57,799
so there is this coat
1932
01:36:57,800 --> 01:36:59,966
and I've got tiny little bit there
1933
01:37:00,300 --> 01:37:02,333
just to emphasize that highlight
1934
01:37:04,566 --> 01:37:05,933
and a tiny bit there
1935
01:37:09,800 --> 01:37:11,366
so that's going to be
1936
01:37:11,766 --> 01:37:15,366
that little touch of this bluey purple dock
1937
01:37:15,666 --> 01:37:18,166
just coming in here to shade that
1938
01:37:20,866 --> 01:37:22,766
and on the other side as well
1939
01:37:31,866 --> 01:37:32,666
there
1940
01:37:33,766 --> 01:37:35,666
it's given it in all a few years
1941
01:37:42,066 --> 01:37:45,599
okay some more flesh color along the top here
1942
01:37:54,366 --> 01:37:55,166
and
1943
01:37:56,533 --> 01:37:58,533
little piece of makeup there
1944
01:38:09,533 --> 01:38:11,099
and then instead of dipping
1945
01:38:11,166 --> 01:38:15,099
into black itself I'm putting it into blue black
1946
01:38:16,566 --> 01:38:18,666
that is the grape black
1947
01:38:19,333 --> 01:38:20,399
the mix
1948
01:38:22,400 --> 01:38:26,533
and I'm just touching in his eyelashes a little bit
1949
01:38:28,733 --> 01:38:29,499
and this is where
1950
01:38:29,500 --> 01:38:32,400
if it was on that little gimbald mount
1951
01:38:32,400 --> 01:38:33,600
you could swing it round
1952
01:38:33,600 --> 01:38:35,866
and just draw your brush drought down
1953
01:38:36,100 --> 01:38:37,333
to tidy up
1954
01:38:37,366 --> 01:38:40,699
but because I like to paint at this vertical easel
1955
01:38:40,866 --> 01:38:42,999
this is how I like to do it
1956
01:38:50,333 --> 01:38:51,799
I just clean up the brush
1957
01:38:51,800 --> 01:38:54,100
and then it's gonna act as a mop
1958
01:38:54,966 --> 01:38:58,899
just to go in here I'm gonna come back on the lines
1959
01:38:58,900 --> 01:39:00,166
come down them
1960
01:39:10,166 --> 01:39:13,666
okay so don't be tempted to rush it and make this as
1961
01:39:13,666 --> 01:39:18,066
dark as that because it is like racing a horse
1962
01:39:18,166 --> 01:39:20,999
you've got to hold it back as much as you can
1963
01:39:21,000 --> 01:39:23,866
and just tentatively put in the colors
1964
01:39:23,866 --> 01:39:24,866
and then you've got
1965
01:39:25,100 --> 01:39:27,966
possibilities of correcting it next time
1966
01:39:28,200 --> 01:39:31,400
whereas if you leap to that stage straight away
1967
01:39:31,566 --> 01:39:33,399
there's no way that you can
1968
01:39:33,533 --> 01:39:35,466
add your corrections next time
1969
01:39:36,200 --> 01:39:39,366
each time you're kind of looking at a fresh
1970
01:39:39,466 --> 01:39:42,399
and thinking now have I got the lightness
1971
01:39:42,400 --> 01:39:45,733
and you're really sitting back and making
1972
01:39:45,800 --> 01:39:47,466
everything as thin as possible
1973
01:39:47,466 --> 01:39:48,866
in this layer here
1974
01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:50,366
I would really
1975
01:39:50,366 --> 01:39:52,199
normally when I'm painting up a portrait
1976
01:39:52,200 --> 01:39:53,666
it will be thinner than this
1977
01:39:53,700 --> 01:39:55,533
even so that there's every scope
1978
01:39:55,733 --> 01:39:57,999
of changing things as you go along
1979
01:40:00,266 --> 01:40:02,766
people are tempted to get the lightness and
1980
01:40:02,766 --> 01:40:05,766
get the anxiety out and to single
1981
01:40:05,766 --> 01:40:09,399
there it is but that won't be such a good portrait
1982
01:40:09,400 --> 01:40:12,600
as working thinly in each layer
1983
01:40:12,700 --> 01:40:15,800
and just bringing the layers up each stage
1984
01:40:15,933 --> 01:40:17,266
firing in between
1985
01:40:19,400 --> 01:40:22,200
so I'm going to come back up to
1986
01:40:23,100 --> 01:40:24,533
high brows here
1987
01:40:24,533 --> 01:40:27,333
and this will have dried a little touch
1988
01:40:27,333 --> 01:40:30,533
so I can do some little flicks here
1989
01:40:33,166 --> 01:40:34,333
over the pen work
1990
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:36,600
just to put those in place
1991
01:40:39,933 --> 01:40:42,366
and you can refine those to your heart's content
1992
01:40:43,466 --> 01:40:47,199
so that's coming along now for this layer here
1993
01:40:47,200 --> 01:40:49,266
just going to go into the Iris
1994
01:40:49,266 --> 01:40:51,766
and again I wouldn't use black at this stage
1995
01:40:51,766 --> 01:40:53,799
even though it looks very black there
1996
01:40:53,800 --> 01:40:56,100
I would put in the grape black
1997
01:40:57,500 --> 01:40:59,166
and just touch it in
1998
01:40:59,500 --> 01:41:03,100
and there's every chance of making it darker next time
1999
01:41:03,333 --> 01:41:04,699
but for the moment
2000
01:41:05,133 --> 01:41:07,499
I can see myself
2001
01:41:07,933 --> 01:41:11,099
in the pupil there and the highlight
2002
01:41:11,300 --> 01:41:12,666
doing the selfie
2003
01:41:13,700 --> 01:41:16,900
and in the loving eye of spice
2004
01:41:17,733 --> 01:41:19,999
I put myself in that as well
2005
01:41:21,366 --> 01:41:23,066
very very tiny
2006
01:41:32,066 --> 01:41:34,499
so that's about as far as I'd go
2007
01:41:37,766 --> 01:41:39,166
just a little bit there
2008
01:41:42,333 --> 01:41:44,599
so soft and gentle work
2009
01:41:44,600 --> 01:41:47,533
and just consideration for what you're doing
2010
01:41:47,900 --> 01:41:50,566
now where I work down here
2011
01:41:50,733 --> 01:41:53,466
that was just a little bit scrappy
2012
01:41:53,466 --> 01:41:56,899
so I'm going to go over that while it's still wet
2013
01:41:57,166 --> 01:41:59,566
and I can refine the lines better
2014
01:41:59,866 --> 01:42:02,066
by moving the paint around
2015
01:42:02,066 --> 01:42:05,966
that I just dumped down and then just refining it
2016
01:42:08,666 --> 01:42:11,566
I'm pulling that down so there's a small color there
2017
01:42:22,966 --> 01:42:24,166
tiny lines down
2018
01:42:24,166 --> 01:42:26,066
and at the next stage
2019
01:42:26,066 --> 01:42:28,266
you'll be looking more carefully at the color
2020
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:29,966
and refining it
2021
01:42:32,200 --> 01:42:33,533
but hopefully
2022
01:42:33,733 --> 01:42:36,366
you've got everything that makes the lightness in
2023
01:42:36,666 --> 01:42:37,899
at this point
2024
01:42:38,566 --> 01:42:41,733
and then the second layer is the most difficult
2025
01:42:41,733 --> 01:42:43,666
that takes the longest time
2026
01:42:43,700 --> 01:42:46,266
because every brush stroke is a commitment
2027
01:42:46,266 --> 01:42:47,866
because when you fire that on
2028
01:42:48,000 --> 01:42:49,766
it's just going to be there forever
2029
01:42:49,766 --> 01:42:52,999
and it will show through into the next layer
2030
01:42:53,200 --> 01:42:54,733
so it's just going to be right
2031
01:42:57,300 --> 01:43:01,366
and just you can go back as long as it's still wet
2032
01:43:01,533 --> 01:43:03,066
and keep refining
2033
01:43:03,066 --> 01:43:04,166
and if you take a break
2034
01:43:04,166 --> 01:43:05,366
just cover it
2035
01:43:05,366 --> 01:43:08,266
and then come back to it and look at it a fresh
2036
01:43:12,300 --> 01:43:16,300
so it's always wise to think well how does the eye work
2037
01:43:16,300 --> 01:43:18,766
you've got this lid folded back here and
2038
01:43:19,166 --> 01:43:21,166
so there's got to be a shadow in there
2039
01:43:21,166 --> 01:43:23,399
and it's got to look quite bulky there
2040
01:43:23,900 --> 01:43:27,100
therefore there's got to be this shading here
2041
01:43:27,300 --> 01:43:31,466
to show that this bit here that will fold away
2042
01:43:33,166 --> 01:43:34,866
and coming down here
2043
01:43:35,533 --> 01:43:37,266
and the colors that you're using
2044
01:43:43,766 --> 01:43:45,899
so I think we're just going to stop there
2045
01:43:45,900 --> 01:43:46,600
and I hope that
2046
01:43:46,600 --> 01:43:49,200
because you're very good idea of a live demo
2047
01:43:49,333 --> 01:43:50,666
what you're aiming for
2048
01:43:50,766 --> 01:43:53,366
and I'm now going to take it off here and
2049
01:43:53,366 --> 01:43:54,899
fire it in the Kiln
2050
01:43:57,200 --> 01:43:59,600
alright so here's the first layer of paint
2051
01:43:59,600 --> 01:44:01,566
that I was doing at the easel
2052
01:44:01,566 --> 01:44:04,933
and remember to take the tack off the back
2053
01:44:05,200 --> 01:44:08,366
I'm going to use the titanium mesh of speed
2054
01:44:08,366 --> 01:44:10,399
because that's a good conductor of heat
2055
01:44:10,566 --> 01:44:12,133
I've got my Kiln fork
2056
01:44:12,533 --> 01:44:13,999
I've got the Kiln
2057
01:44:15,100 --> 01:44:19,366
ready to go so I'm just gonna dry here
2058
01:44:20,066 --> 01:44:22,133
I did have the Kiln door right in a moment ago
2059
01:44:22,133 --> 01:44:23,266
and it lost some heat
2060
01:44:23,266 --> 01:44:24,999
but this is enough for drying it
2061
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:28,133
I'm just driving off the water in the Bliss roll
2062
01:44:29,766 --> 01:44:31,699
but there's steam rising
2063
01:44:32,200 --> 01:44:34,700
and that's just enough to lay it down there
2064
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:38,566
and let it fully rise and dry
2065
01:44:38,700 --> 01:44:40,733
so the Kiln's up to temperature now
2066
01:44:40,733 --> 01:44:43,999
and the painting is well dried
2067
01:44:44,100 --> 01:44:47,500
and it's ready to offer up into the Kiln
2068
01:44:47,700 --> 01:44:49,133
so opening the door
2069
01:44:49,700 --> 01:44:52,533
no big shock putting it in straight away
2070
01:44:52,866 --> 01:44:55,533
but then just put it at the back where its hottest
2071
01:44:56,000 --> 01:44:59,733
and quickly shut the door and wait for the Kiln too
2072
01:44:59,733 --> 01:45:01,399
well it will first lower the temperature
2073
01:45:01,400 --> 01:45:05,366
and then it will begin to climb back up up to 7 50
2074
01:45:07,166 --> 01:45:10,066
so now the piece is ready to remove from the Kiln
2075
01:45:10,066 --> 01:45:12,733
and I can already see just looking down on it
2076
01:45:12,733 --> 01:45:15,066
glimpsing that it's gone shiny
2077
01:45:15,866 --> 01:45:17,166
so here it is
2078
01:45:17,166 --> 01:45:19,466
just put it underneath the light
2079
01:45:19,466 --> 01:45:21,133
which you need to check
2080
01:45:21,566 --> 01:45:24,133
and you can see it's shiny glossy all over
2081
01:45:24,133 --> 01:45:26,399
which means that the enamel paint has just
2082
01:45:26,400 --> 01:45:27,900
sunk by a hair's breath
2083
01:45:27,900 --> 01:45:28,766
into the base
2084
01:45:28,966 --> 01:45:30,466
and all that is fused
2085
01:45:30,466 --> 01:45:33,066
together and safe to work on again
2086
01:45:33,100 --> 01:45:34,666
could you tilt it back there yeah
2087
01:45:34,933 --> 01:45:37,166
tilt it back towards the LEDs
2088
01:45:38,100 --> 01:45:39,966
so other way round
2089
01:45:40,266 --> 01:45:42,966
so yep that's it that
2090
01:45:44,333 --> 01:45:46,733
and I think you've heard it pin maybe yeah
2091
01:45:46,733 --> 01:45:46,966
and
2092
01:45:46,966 --> 01:45:50,333
that was the enamel coming away from the titanium mesh
2093
01:45:50,333 --> 01:45:51,766
so it doesn't take long
2094
01:45:51,800 --> 01:45:53,933
and just a little tap like that
2095
01:45:54,366 --> 01:45:55,666
and off it comes
2096
01:45:55,666 --> 01:45:58,733
and I can put it on a steel block just to hurry
2097
01:45:59,066 --> 01:46:00,333
cooling down
2098
01:46:00,400 --> 01:46:04,066
and you'll see significant color change very quickly
2099
01:46:06,066 --> 01:46:07,066
there we are
2100
01:46:08,333 --> 01:46:11,499
I think want it sliding onto my thumb and burning it
2101
01:46:11,800 --> 01:46:13,166
is that the right angle
2102
01:46:13,300 --> 01:46:15,133
that's perfect yep good
2103
01:46:16,666 --> 01:46:18,799
so that's ready for the next layer now
2104
01:46:20,666 --> 01:46:21,899
switch the Kiln off
2105
01:46:21,933 --> 01:46:24,566
and I always switched off at the wall as well
2106
01:46:25,700 --> 01:46:28,366
I dread burning down the darting to mistake
2107
01:46:29,466 --> 01:46:33,566
and we could transfer that now to the marble
2108
01:46:35,733 --> 01:46:36,533
there we are
2109
01:46:37,500 --> 01:46:38,766
and just leave that for a bit
2110
01:46:38,766 --> 01:46:42,066
and it's pretty well come back to the original colors
2111
01:46:42,500 --> 01:46:45,566
because it's cool enough it's still cooling
2112
01:46:46,133 --> 01:46:49,099
I always dread marble cracking or something
2113
01:46:49,100 --> 01:46:51,200
so I put it on the steel first
2114
01:46:51,300 --> 01:46:53,766
and this steel is already very hot
2115
01:46:53,766 --> 01:46:58,366
so usually I put that into cold water to cool it
2116
01:46:58,366 --> 01:47:01,766
and then I would put it back on there to help cool
2117
01:47:01,766 --> 01:47:03,766
and then finally onto the marble
2118
01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:07,533
so that's where it's resting now so
2119
01:47:08,066 --> 01:47:09,766
I hope that's inspired
2120
01:47:09,766 --> 01:47:12,566
everybody to have a go for yourselves
2121
01:47:12,566 --> 01:47:15,666
and not be overwhelmed by the whole portrait
2122
01:47:15,900 --> 01:47:17,966
but to try a section
2123
01:47:18,366 --> 01:47:21,499
if you like lips do that but with the eye
2124
01:47:21,500 --> 01:47:24,200
you've got many colors there with the eye color
2125
01:47:24,366 --> 01:47:26,899
as well as the flesh tones and so
2126
01:47:27,666 --> 01:47:31,799
so that's it for the advanced techniques now
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