I have a bottle but haven't used it yet. Text on Dick Blick says "gives your work a unified and protective semi-gloss surface."
I used to use damar but have lost all my former art supplies.
Semi-gloss surface is perfect. Is that your experience with it, that it's not a high gloss?
I've been rewatching Sky Arts Landscape/Portrait Artist of the Year and been fascinated by what kind of brushes artists are using, including long or short-handled, and how they hold them. Wide variety.
Conventionally we probably all know long handled brushes are for acrylics and oils, and short handled for watercolour, gouache, and so on. Watercolour and gouache is usually worked on laying flat, acrylics and oils on an easel.
You can only back away so much when you're working horizontally anyway, so short handles make sense.
It surprised me to see how many oil and acrylics painters were using short handled brushes, or using long handles, but choking up on them. Some of them were still quite good painters anyway, though.
But I have to say I love watching those that tend to hold their long-handled brushes from the end, and kind of loosely.
I almost always buy long handled, unless I can't find what I want with long, and usually my grip is between the middle and back.
How about you?
He's a 3-4 year old Aussie, with some people reactivity we're working on. He's a very fast learner! Easy to train.
He's started removing this soft dog bed I have and mounting it. Not a big deal, but I'm wondering if this is some kind of displaced frustration and there's something I should do to help him.
Or is he just horny, and oh well, no harm, leave him be?
I've never encountered this behaviour before.