Studio Time

I was gifted a dozen or so pound tubes of Miameri paint when a friend of mine finished her degree at Ray Vogue. They’re student colors (not what I’ve linked to above… It’s just a nice chart of their colors.) and they apparently don’t make them any more. They’re beautiful, just don’t have a huge pigment load. I tend to use them to start largish paintings like this one.

I used a large blob of Permanent Red, Titanium White, Yellow Ochre and Burnt Sienna to do this. I’d intended to stick a little closer to the letter forms and pool “turpentine” (mineral spirits) on top of them so that things blurred and blended and so on. I got carried away as usual. I went ahead and started building some stuff.

I did pool a small amount of linseed oil mixed with mineral spirits and cobalt drier on things… not really as much as I’d originally intended but enough to flatten out the paint film and cause a little blending. I went back an hour or so later and leaned this against the wall (I painted this on the worktable in the garage. I’m fond of breathing.) so that the paint would run down the front. 🙂 I didn’t get as much of that as I wanted either, but… I’m not really wanting to wait a month for this to dry and I want to get started on it, so… I’m going to leave it at that.

You can see some of the “drippage” and bleeding in the detail. Usually, white drips as a sort of veil. You can see a little of that under the “S” form on the upper left.

I’m sort of anxious to see what I can do with this. I like the way the letter forms are working. I may not make as much of an effort to hide them as I’d intended. I rather like the idea of letting them pop out of the painting.

🙂 I’m going to have to do this again.