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Hi All, I need help in applying varnish in the painting. I found the idea from "homework" by Morgan Weistling and there he said , spray varnish every next day on painting. But my confusion is , why it is needed to varnish everyday and what if painting is not completely dry? After varnish should...
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Thanks for the link to fastmatte. I had originally read that alkyds could be mixed at a 50% ratio to turps or as I use OMS. I found this mixture to be unsatisfactory for the underpainting so am happy to try the mixture of galkyd and gamsol. This may work better. Many of my paintings are done alla prima...
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A new oil painting that is just about finished except for the plaid shirt (which has been extremely time consuming) and a few other details. I plan to enter it into an art competition next month
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Enjoyed your blog! You seem to have a good control of oils. Have you tried layered techniques? You can achieve such a deeper modeling when using them. best wishes, Delmus Http://www.easy-oil-painting-techniques.org
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Hi all, First I want to say that I am impressed with this website and this particular forum. The paintings here are amazing! I recently “came out” to the world and opened a website to share my paintings that until today were hidden in my house. I am a young Israeli artist, and my main inspiration...
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I just finished this painting of a gold and white iris flower. This is a relatively good example of the glazing process that I use for much of my work, and each of my florals. This first photo is a composite, showing many stages of my process in painting this subject. The next photo is an enlargement...
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16 x 20 Oil on canvas, constructive criticism welcome First dog portrait.
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I would like a critique on this painting. 36x36,oil
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I have been painting for just about 6 months and just finished this. The hands were the hardest but getting the light to work took some effort too.