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    David Williams

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    How To Trace Well Even When It’s Hot

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    Common sense answers:

    Tracing when it’s hot is far more difficult than in the cold because your paint is always drying out. So the first thing is of course, you look around for common sense answers to this problem.

    Of course:

    1. You moisten your lump from time to time.
    2. You also keep it covered.
    3. And you do other things like you might use rubber stickers, or get a cooler light, use air-conditioning, or even remove your palette from the light-box altogether.

    Is there something I add to our paint to slow down the speed with which it dries?

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    I Spy Stained Glass

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    Symbols:

    Stained glass designers down the centuries have evolved symbolic methods for depicting key people or events. I am not thinking of those symbols which stained glass designers share with or borrow from artists who work in other media; I am specifically thinking of symbols which just occur within stained glass.

    Now I do know how last week (August 15th) saw the Assumption (i.e. the Virgin Mary).

    But here is the stained glass symbol which you can often find in English churches to represent the Ascension (Jesus). It’s intriguing. I hope you’ll have a look.