Lisa Spangler

Hi all! Loving this thread! So interesting to read everyone’s takes! Thought I’d share some of my own —

M. Graham — I got some in 2017 and they still haven’t set up and will run to the side of the pan if it’s titled and if  I accidentally touch my finger to it a gob of paint will stick argh! I’m in Austin, TX where we have all kinds of crazy…[Read more]

Thanks again, Sandra! My artist friends are indoor painters and they use Daniel Smith, and that’s what I use…

Good idea trying the sticks!

I got a tube of DaVinci permanent rose to try — was going to wait until I finished up this pan of DS quin rose but now I think I’m just going to go for it!

Also there’s an urban sketchers group here but…[Read more]

Hi Sandra!

Thanks for the recommendation to try QoR — I rec’d their sample dot with an order once and I remember them being kinda wild!! Might be fun tho.

The sticky thing happened again yesterday — the paint pan actually stuck to my brush and pulled completely out of my palette — and it was attached with magnetic tape!! Yow! So it’s not just…[Read more]

I have a few tubes of cad reds half-used from when I first started out painting about 15 or 20 years ago — lately I’ve been looking at them longingly again! Still haven’t found reds to compare with them. Thinking I should use them up and see how it goes now that I have more experience under my belt.

Oh love this!!

Hi Kristen,

When my brushes start misbehaving the first thing I do is wash them with a brush cleaner — I use Master’s Brush Cleaner. I think of it as them having a bad hair day! Also sometimes when they are new brushes have sizing in them to help keep them together during shipping and that can make them misbehave as well — so they get a good…[Read more]