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Old 03-15-2005, 03:40 PM   #23
Valerie Warner Valerie Warner is offline
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Hi,

I was interested in this topic when I thought that I had to have turps to paint in oils. I then found Marvin Mattelson's class (which is still very available) and I attended a one week workshop in Atlanta. I have not used turps in my painting since. I use cold pressed linseed oil or that Walnut Oil medium from Graham as mediums. I use about 30 - 40 brushes all beautifully held in a 3 tiered brush holder that has each value marked for each brush. It makes it where I don't wash the brushes when changing values or colors etc like I do when turp is readlily available. I found when I use turp I get lazy, wash, wipe, clean, wipe all day and I'm surrounded with the fumes, odorless or not. Now, I'm fume free until the very end of the day when I quickly wash them in turps and dispose of the wrags immediately, and properly.

A note: in grade school I was deemed a student with an extremely high IQ then came high school art and turps. Then, people thought I was on drugs, or smoking something. The "brain fog" came again when I started painting full time again. I've been turp free for 3 or 4 months now and my husband commented a couple nights ago that I was no longer soo flakey. BIG STUFF, Thanks to Marvin's wonderrful class and methods he shares so beautifully. He showed me after a week of painting that I really could do this, turp free stuff.
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