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Editorial Review :
Handi Painter, An Economical Tool To Give You A Smooth Finish, Great For Paints, Varnishes & Stains, Provides A Smooth Finish For Sealing, Pasting & Waxing, Angled For Getting Into Corners, Nylon Can Be Cleaned For Reuse, Inexpensive Enough T0 Be Disposable,
Customer Review :
Simple, versatile, disposable. Hard worker.
Shur-Line Handi Painter #01500C
This Sur-Line Handi Painter (#01500C) almost disappeared from the market. Among the many new quirky gadgets that are designed to apply paint to tricky little places, this little old Handi Painter is my all-time favorite. Here is why:
This item and a common glass bread pan make painting simple. Once you get the hang of managing the paint load in the tool, painting is no longer daunting.
Pour a little paint into the bread pan. Play with loading the painter while you are still on the ground.
Touch the painter fibers to the surface of the paint. Dab it on a disposable surface. Dip the painter no farther than the green foam and fiber depth. Repeat until the painter is loaded. Lightly scrape the Handi Painter's edges on the edge of the bread pan. This removes excess paint.
Briefly study the direction of the fibers, and how it affects the application and behavior of the paint on a test surface. Use this to your advantage, along with wrist action to push the paint where you want it to go.
Now, up the ladder you go -- you can leave the bread pan on the ground. You won't need it often. Or, you can take it with you if you are nimble. If you are not, then you should not be up on a ladder anyway.
Make a little test swipe on the wall to get started. You have control over the angles and twists with wrist action. Push the painter upward, while moving it horizontally; then, downward. Simulate an arc motion.
As you move the painter toward a corner or joint, slide the painter parallel to the adjacent surface. Watch as the paint advances ahead of the direction in which you push. The painter does not need to touch the adjacent surface.
By doing this in short sections, and drawing downward before lifting the painter, you should be able to cut in neatly and quickly. Use the edges and flat surface of the painter to feather the edges away from the adjacent surfaces. Later, you can paint the entire surface with the painter.
Painting the entire flat surface is easily accomplished by swiping the paint onto the surface in the same arc motion described above. Work in small areas, feathering, and then finishing by lightly pulling downward.
What's really special about this painter is that you can press harder and work it back and forth over orange-peel textured surfaces. Then, smooth with a finishing downward stroke. The little pockets in the texture will fill with paint, and you will not have speckles of old color showing through later.
I've tried the other gadgets, and they mimic one or two advantages of the Handi Painter. None give me the full range of motion and control that this one does.
This painter is deceptively simple; yet, an enormously powerful tool for painting.
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Product good! Condition so-so.
I have bought this product elsewhere and really have use for it ... but when this package arrived ... some were damaged ... not in transit ... but damaged none-the-less.
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forget the brushstrokes and recoating
Highly recommended little sponge painter. Covers evenly and leaves a nice smooth finish. Recoating should not be necessary. Fast!
Soak the Handi-Painter sponge good and completely with paint before applying. Use a very light touch when the sponge is fully soaked. Too much pressure in that phase will lead to a lot of dripping. Once the paint is on the wall, start applying more pressure to spread the paint out evenly, but still keep the pressure nice and smooth across the whole arc of your stroke. Your eyes will tell you where a little more pressure is needed.
Used properly, this one also goes into corners. Just take your time and spread the paint out evenly. You'll still get some drip with this so you want your dropcloth flush with the baseboard and no gaps.
Your days of uneven coverage, mess and worn out hands and wrists from brushing or rolling paint on are over. You found this handi and versatile little thing. I wish I had found it years ago.
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Question : Does anyone know who this painter is
This is the second time I'm posting this Question. I will give as much detail as I can about this painting. It is signed M. ALI. In white. The signature is on the right lower corner. The painting is on an aged canvas. The canvas seems black at first but I believe the black is from the paint. The border of the canvas is paper bag brown. Starting from the top it has a beautiful darker blue almost aqua sky. There are lots of trees in the background form left to right. The picture is of three Africans (possibly) in front of a straw hut. One person is standing, stirring a big pot to the right of it. The other is sitting on a stool (looks like adding to the pot) to the left of the pot. Off to the right of the picture there is a child looking to the hut or maybe in distance. The person stirring is in a pink long wrap with a pink head dress. The person sitting is wearing different color short dressings and the child is wearing a white dressing around the waist. I would assume it is a picture of a mother, father, and young boy. I think it may be an oil painting (not familiar with paints). There are numerous paints used with such remarkable detail. The canvas measures 32x 23€. I found the painting in an abandoned storage auction, not in the frame, rolled in a white plastic trash bag. I can€t seem to find the artist on the web. Can anyone give me any leads to the value of this paintinghttp://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z309/mnmgonzalez/
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surely you've added good details I think m. ali is just the artist's pen-name. it certainly shows black people in Africa.The two people are preparing a meal. They are both women pounding foo-foo yams of the Yoruba and Ibo of Nigeria although it could also be corn meal or matoke banana-meal of the Baganda. The scenery is tropical rain forest. The third person is likely a man walking uphill the dust path. One woman has this piggy-back ride baby while the other arranges the stuff for more pounding. The woman standing has this west African Ghanaian/Nigerian agbada clothing while the seated one has sisal fibre-like skirt much loved by traditional west and east Africans. The thick jungle kind of places the scene in Central or west africa and i'd go with the latter given the name of artist as ali. - some islamic influence in the heart of black africa. but again uganda has that thick jungle too in ankole-land. the head scarf suggests ghana and senegal and neighbors though. the container of the stuff being pounded is not a pot but type of tree wooden-bottomed carved dish-like wooden container, very common in west and east africa.hence to answer your question, i'd say, I dont know who the painter is but can only give the above remarks if they could help trace the real M. Ali.You may also explore these many sites if they may help. I've tried exploring some but as you can see, they are just too many and require more time especially by someone directly interested like you.This is main link. explore the many links, you may chance on the painter or those like Ali's and zero in on what you want.: http://www.gallerydir.com/art-web/MEMBERSEARCH-Good luck
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Question : Have you heard of the artist Foerster & Co New York who painted a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
I have a very large picture in my home of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on it. IT was painter by Foerster & Co. New York, that is what is written in the right corner of the picture. It belonged to my grandmother and is old. I was just wondering if anyone heard of this person
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not sure thank you for the two points
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