This went to the gallery this past weekend. It was one of the most frustrating pieces I can remember doing. Originally, it was an acrylic painting that I decided to re-work in oil, make some changes and so on.
This is on paper mounted on plywood. The acrylic was just heavy enough to completely fill in any texture on the piece and left me with a surface that was about as slick as glass. Seeing that I scrub in much of what I paint… this was a real problem. It ended up being a combination of finger-painting, shading with a rag and a bit of normal painting with a brush.
Luckily, the acrylic painting was smooth enough that it didn’t require a lot of sanding to clean up the edges of forms and so on. Somehow, the whole process left me with an odd, painterly texture across the whole painting.
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