{"id":663,"date":"2009-12-15T05:02:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T05:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=663"},"modified":"2010-04-18T18:59:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T01:59:45","slug":"fixative-vs-microfiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Fixative vs Microfiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"frame-outer  size-full wp-image-664 aligncenter\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-664 aligncenter\" title=\"Fixative\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative.jpg\" alt=\"Fixative\" width=\"415\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I sometimes like to use vine charcoal to make preliminary drawings for paintings or to make corrections of my under-paintings, but one of the benefits of the soft charcoal is also it&#8217;s drawback.\u00a0 It leaves allot of charcoal dust behind that mixes with the paint.\u00a0 One solution is to use fixative which can have some nasty solvents in them.\u00a0 I have a better solution that is non toxic (well at least to the end user), use a microfiber cleaning cloth.\u00a0 If you use the cloth delicately you can remove most of the loose dust while leaving behind a nice charcoal drawing that won&#8217;t mix heavily with the next layer.\u00a0 It works so well in fact that you need to be careful to not overdo it as you can almost completely erase with this method.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also not certain just what effect fixative will have on a painting long term so simply removing excess charcoal seems to be a better solution to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"frame-outer  alignright size-full wp-image-667\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-667\" title=\"Fixative-0811\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-0811.jpg\" alt=\"Fixative-0811\" width=\"415\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-0811.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-0811-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-0811-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Here is the charcoal right after making a correction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"frame-outer  alignright size-full wp-image-671\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-671\" title=\"Fixative-0813\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-0813.jpg\" alt=\"Fixative-0813\" width=\"415\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-0813.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-0813-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-0813-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Just press lightly against the dust and the cloth picks it up without smudging<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"frame-outer  alignright size-full wp-image-668\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-668\" title=\"Fixative-0816\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-0816.jpg\" alt=\"Fixative-0816\" width=\"415\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-0816.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-0816-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fixative-0816-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><strong>And the result<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One further benefit is that the cloth can be rinsed with water, dried and reused over and over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes like to use vine 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