Start of something new. 🙂🤞 Using #oilcolour for first time in a very long time. Up to now, I haven't really appreciated them. This is an experiment. Will they frustrate me less, drying too slowly than acrylics drying too quickly? here's the first version:
Watched a lot of Bob Ross, to try and find out his techniques. Worked pretty well. Secret, big soft brush (= expensive)
Background for painting. Painted on top of the one I posted last week. stuff was showing through. This image got a lot of approval when posted on Facebook. Is this also the Bob Ross effect - or is it the pictures are simple to understand. To be honest, at the actual size, I quite liked it as well. Felt you could stare at it. Perhaps the that's the art of the banal.
Have sketched out tree in charcoal. Based on tree near here. Underpainting next. Incidentally, canvas is 1m square.
So start of painting. Applied some colour, used burned sienna first. Mistake. Should have stuck to ochres and greys like lower half. Paints I have vary in age. But some have gone stiff; similar aged acrylics have lasted better.
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