I finally got into my giant chest this week (It has had
a very heavy TV sitting on top of it for 2 or more years!) and rediscovered all
my art treasures – papers, various art materials I forgot I had, and old art
work. One of the art materials I
forgotten I had was water soluble oils, which a number of you have recommended
to me as an answer to my problems with using traditional oils.
So I set to and put Gesso on various sizes of card,
with the idea of experimenting. At this
point my brain went blank, all that white!
In such situations I flip through my sketch book hoping for
inspiration. I got lucky, there was this
sketch, I remembered doing it in the local park last week at lunchtime, it was
so hot that this woman was laying on a blue rug half in the sun and half in the
shade. She looked as if she was on fire!
So I set to and painted this lovely in 1 hour! (A3)
Wow. I have to say I liked using these
paints, not as buttery as oils but they have body to them. Also it dried overnight (I imagine longer if
the weather was colder). I like working
in layers, so that would cut down waiting time.
Not to be corny I was on fire! When I was going through my chest I came
across some paintings I did a few years ago.
I was very much into landscape, the history and the mapping of it by early
explorers. See below. It is really interesting to look at old work
and where you were then. I obviously was
into not letting the brush marks show!
So different from now, I love to do work that has more expressive
quality – painterly I think the term is.
I got bored with that theme, and stopped doing landscapes.
Something strange happened this week. The next painting I started on was an actual
canvas, and it was a landscape, but painterly! It is not finished yet, still a
work in progress. It is a manageable size 20x24, and with the water soluble
oils I think I will have no trouble finishing.
Maybe, I got bored because I was not putting myself into the previous
works? Anyway, I am going to go with
this development, as I felt that frizz of excitement within me as I
painted. You can’t ignore that!
I don’t think I will ever stop painting my ladies - I
can’t, I want to take part in the 29 faces in February! But I do think I have a new subject area to
explore.
Have a happy PPF day everybody and a great week ahead
creating lovely masterpieces.
(Does
anyone know if ordinary oils are compatible with water soluble? I have so many unfinished oils; it would be
neat if I could finish them using the water based oils. I tried painting over the trad oil with the
water based and it sticks. But I would
hate it if it all fell of later!)
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