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    Weekend Walk

    Jul 13, 2023 4 minutes

    Brushes

    I use a range of filberts and flats from #2 to #14. My new favourite is a number 14 Neef filbert. My round brushes are from 0 to #12. I am very careful to keep my oil brushes very separate from my acrylic brushes.

    I haven’t painted a beach painting for some time, and thought it an ideal subject for a painting demonstration. I needed new source photos for the painting, so I organised family members and their dogs to meet me at the local Perth dog exercise beach on the Easter weekend for a photoshoot . . . and then it rained. It kept raining solidly for 10 days, which is unheard of in Perth, so

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