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I'm coming back to oil painting, finally!
Within the past week & a half or so, I have just re-stretched onto a new stretcher the incomplete painting on the top right, 24"x 36" oil on canvas. I'll be finishing this one 1st as it is so close to complete, and...
The canvas on the left, stretched and total gesso job, ready to be painted on any day. This will be a remake of Archangel Gabriel & his trumpet statue, I can do this better! 26"x 37" this is quite large for me, so looking forward with my new ideas for this as an oil painting.
The center canvas, stretched and total gesso job, ready to be painted on any day. 16"x 20", this was intended for a portrait, but it's the wrong size for my ultimate intention. I'll set this one aside for later.
And I just completed mixing and tubing more fresh oil paint mixes, ready to go! (just in time before an unexpected in May, a severe heat wave, no air conditioner, hahaha!) You can see I have my 3x primaries & the 9x tertiaries, 3x semi neutral +xtras, 3x neutral primaries. At the bottom photo there is teal, turquoise, black (for drawing), and lemon yellow. This was a lot of hard and very fast work in only 3x days! Nothing was wasted in any way. It all worked out fantastic in every way.
Today I'll be stretching a new canvas for the portrait of my greatest intention and I'll begin the gesso process. 18"x 24". And return to painting.
It's been 2+ years since I painted last, I have thought a lot about what I have done and that I would like to see changed for better. And I have kept up my studying oil painting as well, some new stuff to try out.
I'm in it for the enjoyment! Haha!
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Looking forward to see your works.
Don't forget to put nice bold brush strokes on the canvas like the statue painting you've done a while ago
🤣😂 it feels good to be back in the studio and focusing on what needs to get done to paint.
The following blows me away!; btw thank you to @tassieguy for this valuable gem of a tip to caring for brushes!
I pull out my brushes that I had stored in my studio refrigerator, dipped in walnut oil and wrapped with saran wrap, 2+ years, they all came out perfect! No worries!😂
6 of 12 total were just a little dry but not stiff at all, I've clean them with thickened walnut oil, and they are perfect, these were small brushes.
The large brushes are still quite fresh ready to go, no cleaning needed, only a hand to hold it & start painting. 🤣😂
Today I'm actually painting!
Lovely seeing your paintings and your enthusiasm, I’m newer to the board so hadn’t seen your “angel” it’s lovely, and so is your start above.
@joydeschenes, you could add a bit of clove oil if you wanted to slow drying even further but it's not necessary. I hate the smell of it. It will taint the food in your fridge unless wrapped airtight.
@joydeschenes I only use walnut oil. I only use clove oil as dabs in a cotton ball in my sealed painting palette well away from wet paint mixes, the vapors in the sealed palette keep my paints wet for an extended period.
I never use it in my paint nor for cleaning. I too have grown to be very sensitive to the scent of clove oil, so I try to use it minimally in my studio which doubles as my living space as well.
I use linseed oil for most everything else, occasionally I'll use walnut oil in my paint mixes, mainly for whites and near whites.