Studio Time

Again, there wasn’t much chance of getting a decent shot of this. It’s got 2 coats of gloss acrylic on it as well as a considerable amount of wet oil paint. Thanks to a polarizer cranked all the way up, gimp‘s autocolor functions and half a dozen graded (a “quick” mask made with a gradient fill… it lets you focus things like levels and color adjustments, gradually change the lighting across the image, etc) edits… um… it could be worse.

This is the first oil session. Yesterday, before I sealed this I painted large patches of phthalocyanine green across it and sprayed them down with a water bottle. The drips aren’t all that obvious but it did work very nicely as a sort of glaze to pull the whole thing together. Today, I’m just trying to get the (oil) colors started and rework a few of the forms so they fit together a little better. It is going a lot faster and using a lot less paint than the acrylics.

Colors: Gamblin’s Cadmium Yellow Deep (When I first opened this tube, I thought maybe I had the wrong color. It’s not nearly as “deep” as I expected. It has its uses though.), Sennelier’s Burnt Sienna, Sap Green, Ultramarine Blue and Titanium White… Winsor Newton’s Cadmium Red Deep and Cadmium Yellow Deep.