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Published: 2011-09-25 13:03:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 438; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 0
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This find held me captive for almost one hour. Most of the shots I took this morning were of this dandelion-like parachute caught in a spider's web. And then the battery died due to all the work using the display ...I have no idea where the focus was originally. Every time I adjusted it, the spider's web moved in the wind, and this glittering beauty changed its position.
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Holy 
(for the record, file "holy
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Thank you very much, and I'm glad you like it
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YAY! It's awesome!
You know spider webs are very hard, because of any breeze at all, believe me I have experience this, too... but anyway, this has turned out amazing!
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Exquisite!!!....Could look at this forever!!........Like a magpie I love shiny things!
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Thank you 
We're girls, we're supposed to love shiny things (if not diamonds 
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I have none, not even tiny, only fake ones - so, I guess, I'll have to live with temporary sparkles made by dew and morning light.
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Me too. It's the little magic of life.
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This is beautiful! It looks like crystal beads all strung together.
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This was exactly the sound that I made when I found it
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And girlishly: "Ooooooooh, prettyyyy sparkles"
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Thank you
May I ask you something?
How do you achieve thin lines with acrylic paint, not using a brush.
I mean I have brushes size 0, and I just don't get very fine lines.
As usual they look like a cat had walked on the painting.
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Acrylic? Try a straight-edge and a marker pen. With lots of practice and a good lettering or pin-strip brush you might be able to do without the ruler, but for now I'd take the easy way out./
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Oh, I didn't mean straight lines. Just thin/fine strokes like for stamens of a blossom etc.
The paint isn't really thick or solid, but even if I use thinner the strokes are never fine enough. Maybe it's just the wrong medium to work too detailled.
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Oh. I guess thin paint(I use oils)and a long haired brush. Short bristle brushes usually don't hold enough paint to get a nice stroke.It takes some time and practice to learn how to get it right.
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I need to get new thinner. I had just a small bottle (old stuff from my Mom). Usually, it's not necessary, but I wanted to add some fancy swirls to my painting of imaginary flowers. I need to repaint what I tried until now.
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You can also get some nice effects by using a "bright"(a square cut brush) which gives you a kind of wedge shape to work with...like a calligraphy pen: thin lines when you sweep the brush one way; thick lines when you draw it another way. But it sounds like you need to get some nice long lettering brushes.
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And use whatever works. The advantage of really long-haired brushes is that they hold enough paint to complete the stroke. The trick is learning to control how much pressure you are putting on the brush where it touches the surface...kind of like using old style crow quill or copperplate pens.
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At the moment, I'm stuck with some kind of school brushes.
My son got so many for his schooling that we have to use them at home as well.
We can't just put them aside and wait for later because they require different brushes over the years. But I'm surprised how much better school brushes became since I was a kid.
I'm skipping the detailled parts for now.
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As I recall we got basic watercolor brushes at school. I must have liked them, since I worked in water color and tempera all the way up to college. Pen and ink too.
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I think if we don't paint at home I'll never get my son to paint anything.
They do anything but painting at school.
Cutting, gluing, but no drawing and no painting.
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You might want to introduce your son to the idea of using other tools to apply paint...with oils, I like using a clean sock to spread thin layers of paint over large areas...a bit of rubbing to lighten a color by thinning it. An eraser works well to clean up rough lines...a typewrite eraser if you can find one works to remove dried paint.
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We specialized in using our fingers to apply paint
We've never tried large "areas" though.
At the moment we're busy with paper mache stuff.
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I haven't done paper mache since grade school...but i think that the mess I'm making with the flagstones will suffice as a substitute./
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I think we're not doing real paper mache. The paper mache that I remember from my childhood was definitely a mess. It worked better though. But we chose the cleaner version.
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Hmmmm...paper mache that doesn't make a mess sounds a bit like foam wind-chimes(for people who want wind-chimes, but don't like the noise)
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When I was a kid we used newspapers and wallpaper glue. As I don't have any wallpaper glue left, and my son wants to have his - whatever it will be - finished before Halloween, we're improvising
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I recall using newspaper and some horrid version of glue which I know no to be a kind of Darwinian substance designed to weed out the weaklings...the survivors went on to watercolors.
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Wallpaper glue is horrid
I have seen on kids' television that it can be done with starch too. I forgot the exact recipe though.
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I do remember the grade school paste as being rather tasty though.
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Blue was especially tasty, yellow, though, stank like bad eggs
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I don't recall having tried paint as an appetizer although I've probably accidentally ingested enough to stock an art supply store. Perhaps if they'd named the colors after food....
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It was like a lick of it. One of the guys tried it, and we just had to try it too.
I'm still alive
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I believe that most oil paints now use Safflower Oil as a binder....just add a side of fries and you have a meal fit for any starving artist.
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I have never used oil paint but I should consider it as an option as my son likes fries
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Uh...I'll have the Cadmium Yellow, hold the pickles, with a side of Burnt Sienna and a large Diet Thalo Blue. Oh yes: extra napkins, please!
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I would prefer to not have blue in my meal. Really, this would totally distract me from the rest of deliciousness.
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How about a nice cold Sap Green?
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