Thank you Pat for your kind words. I have done the BLO both ways but most of the time I do it afterwards. Definitely before if I am doing the figure in oils. When using the BLO before and painting in acrylics, the color is very soft and velvety looking. Neat look that I like for Santas. <br>
<br>Corey<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 7:43 PM, P Sherman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:psherman@suite224.net">psherman@suite224.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font size="4" face="Arial">corey, you do one hell of a job of carving. but you
do a damn good job of painting. want to paint mine for me?</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Arial">your paint jobs always make yuour carvings look
great. just enought .</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Arial">thaks for showing us</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Arial">question do you put the blo on first before the
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