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My favourite painting at the Walker
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Well Dennis the traditional way take time to dry but nobody who paints in oils expects
oils to dry fast ,even with some turps added. Therei is a liquid called siccative I think which aids drying but I may be wrong in this.Personally I work in. water soluble oils
which I think doesn't need oiling out and they seem to me to dry faster, but my memory
is not good these days .I Do...remember that oily oils took ages to dry and the pundits
said it took months to really dry. This is why I like acrylics! ...Cheers ...Syd :-)
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This, you will be bucked to hear, is explained in my e-book Oil Paint Basics, currently available at modest price on the Amazon Kindle Store. However, never let it be said that I hoarded knowledge, selfishly, to myself... <div>
</div><div>A painting medium can indeed be used to oil out, and it can be done as soon as the painting is dry to the touch (although it probably won't need it at that stage). I've used different preparations, but one I normally go back to as the most successful so far is Winsor and Newton Artists' Painting Medium. It needs to be applied sparingly - it won't be tacky if you remove any excess with a large, dry brush, or a lint-free cloth. </div><div>
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http://www.gamblincolors.com/newsletters/studionotes17.html<div>
</div><div>This is a link, which I hope will be live, to the Gamblin site, which has more on oiling out. The procedure can be applied to a finished painting, or can be used, rather than Retouching Varnish, to bring a passage in a painting back to life while you're still painting, and/or to enhance the ability to paint over sunken or dried out passages. There is also information on the Winsor and Newton website - Gamblin make the point that the ground on which the picture is painted is also important, as some guzzle oil and lead to patchy drying. </div>
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Been to the Walker again today, saw some impressionists for the first time in my life, a couple walked right past a Monet and didnt give it a second glance! Felt like screaming at them haha.
So many good artists there on display saw Degas, Monet, Ford Maddox Brown, Hockney, Dante Gabrielle Rosetti, Poussin, Lowry, Stanley Spencer, Freud... Too many to list (or even remember).
But for all of them on display right now my favourite is a small painting by an artist I had never heard of before.
Edward John Poynter painted "On the terrace" in 1889 and there is just something about how he painted her dress that fascinates me, not to mention the skill involved and the subtlety with which he did it.
Anyway, what are you doing reading this? Get yourself down to a gallery and stumble upon your own hidden treasure (and post it here of course)
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by T.B