It was a big disappointment! As I said, I'm glad I was lucky enough to get a 5ml sample! I'll be very reluctant to buy an more of the Coval ones unless it's something with plenty of good reviews.
Yes, and depending on how you depict the items, you either get 'Trompe L'Oeil' (fool they eye) which is more hyper realistic than I like to paint, or my most used way: Chiaroscuro, which basically is about items glowing out of warm dark shadows ...the glow or graded lightness will project forward, and the dark shadows recede. Caravaggio was a master of that technique.
I always prefer to develop an understanding of such things in basic terms ..getting too involved in the chemistry of it is a lot more to both comprehend and remember!
As long as it's not fiddly items, a rapid even layer is the way to go, always trying to load the brush fully yet not enough to run. My biggest fault was trying to economise by brushing it out too far, and it always resulted in more work next day, and just as much paint as I'd have used if I hadn't been so sparing with it.
I've been content to just start sleeping a bit better in the past month or so, and thought I'd be working better by now, but it hasn't happened yet!
I've had a prepared small canvas in front of me for two days, and each night I tell myself I'll begin tomorrow! ...perhaps tomorrow, I'll be lucky!
True ..a few drops in a tank of the original will soon tell me!
You aren't supposed to laugh!
Oh dear! have a cup of cocoa .....
Always good
You're right ..it isn't worth saving! Never mind! Will you leave a suitable review for it? I'm thinking I will for the ones I got because they aren't well flavoured. One is OK, another is usable but needs a bit of something adding (chocolate) and the Blueberry Custard will be useful to mix Band Camp with (thankfully it's a 6mg max VG) - There's the Strawberry Cake that isn't too bad, but it disappeared off the site ..not even marked as sold out, so that was puzzling, and the strawberry custard is very mildly flavoured ..again, possible to add something to it.
It's looking like some people taste the lesser flavoured ones better than we do? Most of us here seem to appreciate good depth of flavour. Unless of course those giving glowing reviews have never had any well flavoured brands.
Interesting that the Indigo hasn't been re-stocked yet but was apparently on it's way.