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I prefer to use Acrylic on heavy weight watercolour paper, I can then make use of washes at the beginning of the painting and have more texture and detail at the end. I use both bristle and soft haired brushes and any other tools that will give the effect, for the leaking lock a toothbrush! Quite a few of my Acrylics are on Whatman watercolour paper which is a soft, very absorbent paper that allows many washes but little correction, it requires 'a 'drier' way of painting' than most people paint watercolour, but Acrylics work fine.

cawoods push-pull tug, the water patterns were superb

wakefield from the canal - barge on right is called Hunts Eve

A Cawoods Hargreaves 'push-pull' tug, in a rush, one calm May evening on the Aire and Calder Canal. 18.5" x 14.5" 140 lb Whatman Watercolour paper. nfs

Sunset over Wakefield from the Canal. nfs
14.0" x 10.0" on 140 lb Whatman Watercolour paper.

The Shroppy - the shropshire union canal

One late Spring evening, on the Shropshire Union Canal. 16" x 12"140 lb Saunders w/c paper. nfs

Leaking Lock on the Erewash Canal, Derbyshire. I got rather wet! 12.0" x 8.0" 140 lb Whatman paper. nfs