[Scriptoris] Online Winsor & Newton Gouache Source

[Elaine Crittenden]

My mother, an artist in her younger days, used to say,"When a tube dries 
out, you can always throw it at your (sidewalk) critics!." (LOL)

I say, "When a tube (of watercolor or gouache) dries out, open the crimped
end, drop in a little distilled water, roll the tube back up, and stand it
on its cap for a while to reconstitute the rewetted area at the other end."

I have, on occasion and in a rush, just stroked a dampened brush on the
dried paint to use it. It's much like using shell gold, which is a dried
cake of powdered gold with binders mixed in.

Lete Bithespring--too "cheap" to get rid of perfectly good paint
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>From: "Beth Hansen" <Beth at stormreaver.net>
>To: "Scribes within Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <scriptoris at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Scriptoris] Online Winsor & Newton Gouache Source
>Date: Mon THFeb 2,2004,9:09 AM
>

> I've actually been having better results from the M. Graham & Co. line of
> Artist's Gouache. The Windsor Newtons tend to dry up on me in the tube -
> especially the black. I have some of each, though.
>
> -zubeydah