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Originally Posted by Kimberly Dow
I still have yet to try my ABS - it's sitting there sanded, but still in huge sheets. I just ordered a tiny bit of Maroger for the first time the other day. I'd like to hear actual amounts used on canvas. For example - do you put a drop in each pile of paint? Or only use it for certain effects?
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Kim, be sure you're wearing a mask if you're sanding, especially on those big sheets of ABS. Who is going to cut them for you?
It's taken me over a year of trial and error (lots of error) to figure out how to work on ABS. All of my useful knowledge comes from Bill Whitaker who surely deserves an award for patience with student pests.
Lately I've been saving my Maroger for the top couple of paint layers and using it as a dip for my small brush to blend soft turning edges. The bottom layers are as soft as I can make them and I blend them flat and loose with a fan brush. I build up the lights with opaque paint and scrub the dark shadows into the ABS ground. I'm not thinning the paint at all (other than the initial drawing with raw umber) and there is a ton of paint on this panel.
Sanding (by hand!) between paint coats seems to act as an exfoliant for future layers and somehow increases luminosity. When you hit these ABS paintings with a halogen spotlight they explode off the wall. I think it has to do with the hardness and the brilliance of the white ground. My next few paintings are going to be on gessoed boards and I'm wondering if I can get them to behave the same way as ABS does.