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"sigh" This is the first time I've picked up oils since I was 13. I started this weeks ago and in the process I realized... CRAP! I hardly knew a damn thing about painting in oils. I had just jumped right in and was all kinds of in the wrong mode of thinking.
But it hardly mattered. I had no honest intention of making anything spectacularly good here. This was a chance to get some of the jitters out (about painting) and simply play. Hence the boring figure, wonky proportions and crappy/complete lack of composition.
I planned nothing. I just loaded up my brush with thinned down burnt umber and began sketching blindly.
Not recommended by most but fun.
And now that I'm looking at this little JPEG I'm seeing more little details I want to add.
pff, whatever. I'm done. It's dead to me.
One thing I will say. The paint I used, CHROMA. They are the perfect middle ground between oil and acrylic. Has all the chemical makeup and characteristics of OIL and learned it's drying time from acrylics. Mind you it still takes weeks to months to cure (depending on how thick of course) but that time is drastically cut in more than half compared to conventional oils.
Google it!
Oh yeah. if your wondering, the gold/orange flakes is gold/copper leaf. Before you run off and toss it in your own works. One word. OXIDIZATION! Figure away around it first. I give it three months before all the leaf in mine turns the paint over and around it copper green. Hey! That might look cool. but probably not.
But it hardly mattered. I had no honest intention of making anything spectacularly good here. This was a chance to get some of the jitters out (about painting) and simply play. Hence the boring figure, wonky proportions and crappy/complete lack of composition.
I planned nothing. I just loaded up my brush with thinned down burnt umber and began sketching blindly.
Not recommended by most but fun.
And now that I'm looking at this little JPEG I'm seeing more little details I want to add.
pff, whatever. I'm done. It's dead to me.
One thing I will say. The paint I used, CHROMA. They are the perfect middle ground between oil and acrylic. Has all the chemical makeup and characteristics of OIL and learned it's drying time from acrylics. Mind you it still takes weeks to months to cure (depending on how thick of course) but that time is drastically cut in more than half compared to conventional oils.
Google it!
Oh yeah. if your wondering, the gold/orange flakes is gold/copper leaf. Before you run off and toss it in your own works. One word. OXIDIZATION! Figure away around it first. I give it three months before all the leaf in mine turns the paint over and around it copper green. Hey! That might look cool. but probably not.
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Make
Canon
Model
Canon PowerShot SD700 IS
Shutter Speed
1/30 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
7 mm
Date Taken
Oct 20, 2008, 1:09:57 AM
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Tammy this is gorgeous, I don't know why your so hard on yourself, I often think of that painting you were doing when we worked at Michaels I think the girl was on one canvas in the middle and the other 2 were to be put on either side, did you ever finish that, always wondered how it turned out.