I checked out Morgan Weistling's site...Very amazing draughtsmanship. I'm really impressed by how he can paint straight onto a canvas and start with painting an eye first and work his way out......completely antithetical to what I've been taught. I'm all about the planning (probably because I'm not as confident as he is).
You've have some really nice work too Alexandra. In acrylics the only time I may use a retarder is to paint a wide area of colour where there is a gradation like a sky. Having a mixed colour dry on your palette is a drag now that you mention it...I don't mix together a lot of colours though so it's not so hard to mix up more of the same. On some of those paintings on my site, for instance "Tim", I wanted to have a really flat colour for the background so I mixed the colour I wanted in one of those film containers so I could always have that same exact colour when needed.
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