A Redcar By Sea painting,

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A Redcar By Sea painting,

Produced Against All Odds

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Introduction

I LOVE CARAN D’ACHE Neo Oil PASTELS

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Almost all my past Art has been with Caran D'ache Neo Oil Pastels.

NOTE:

These are NOT the same as mere oil pastels

They are as different as watercolours and oil paints.

The techniques are different, the style is different, the overall effect is different.

However,

Unfortunately for me…

The cost is also very different.

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Each Caran D'ache Neo Oil Pastel, as sold individually, cost up to two pounds fifty to up to three pounds each.

And an A2 can use up to three of these.

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A ninety-six Caran D'ache Neo Oil Pastel set can cost over two hundred and fifty pounds!

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Due to Caran D'ache Neo Oil Pastels being so expensive

(Although truly, totally, worth the money!)

And my art being sold so cheap,

(Because that is all people are willing to ever pay…)

(My Art ain't worth nothing sitting in my folder for months!)

I am resorting to re-visiting using cheap acrylic paints. (From our kid's art closest)

I am a little nervous about the potential results...

As I have not tried to hold a paintbrush for over a decade!

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So, let us look at this cheap journey.

A journey that should end up with a terrible bit of art on my part.

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The ONLY Materials I have left!

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Part 1

The White Horror.

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I get all the available materials I have left together.

Then to my horror, I realised…

Crap, No white!

I can mix almost any other colour from scratch

But I can not either work around or produce from nothing, that tone...

Shit...!

Loads ideas and nothing express them with!

Unless I can make an art sale soon, To afford more materials. I'm screwed...

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Part 2

Girding My Loins For Battle.

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Then I thought…

Ok

Enough bitching and moaning about what I don't have.

Let's "MacGyver" it and look at what I DO have...

A few Caran D'ache Neo Oil Pastels left

Plenty of Blue, Yellow, Red and a bit of Black Acrylic

Some colour pencils

PVA glue

Paper

Let us see what I can manage with this lot!

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One work hour later…

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To say, this is going embarrassingly bad so far,

IS a gross understatement...

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Two Work Hours Later…

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Errrr....

Huston...

We have a problem...

Shit!

This is NOT going well...

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Part 3

A bad workman blames his materials.

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On top of everything

(And I know this seems like an excuse)

The Acrylic paints left in the kid's art cupboard are both Old AND Badley stored

Shoving water into it can only achieve so much

A "Normal" (none silly stubborn) person would have given up by now!

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Later still…

Over Two Work Hours Later…

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Ok,

There are two main issues against me on this project

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Limited and very bad quality (due to poor storage) paint

So the paint is already flaking

And

A Lack of skill in painting (Vs other mediums)

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A thing in my favour

Stubbornness

Y'all ready to cheer for an underdog yet?

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Even Later still…

Ok,

So,

Throwing water at crap paint does NOT help much

At all

Even a bit!

BUT I DO have plenty of PVA glue...

Let's shove a load of THAT into the old paint and see if that helps!!

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Part 4

The Harsh result.

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Last Note!

Well,

Under the circumstances,

This is the best I can possibly do.

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With no white to use, to lighten anything colour wise, that is mixed.

I either had a choice of very muddy subtle colours or very strong bright ones.

Without any white to work with, carefully mixed, a varied choice of pallet, at my painting skill level, was NEVER going to be a realistic option.

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As the lesser of two evils, I went for the bright Pop Art blocks of bright colour style.

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The worst part was waiting for layers to dry

If I had to do this all the time,

Then the only workaround would be to work on at least four paintings at once!

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Did I win?

I am not entirely sure

One of you lot, Out there, Tell me...

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Did I lose?

<Shrug?>

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To see my Art, Go To My Facebook Marketplace...

LINK:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/profile/1198692439/?ref=share_attachment

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