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Starting an oil painting for the first time.
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That’s great Denis and Hilary, give it a go in any medium. Both are looking excellent, good idea to try it in acrylics Hilary, I like the look of it.
I’m always asking Alan’s advice, he has a lot of knowledge.
Here are my first two stages, not very good photos I’m afraid it’s been so dark here.
The surface is a bit bumpy, it has a couple of painting underneath the gesso. I’ve improvised on some of the colours as I don’t have all that Alan has listed and I may have missed out a couple of fields in my initial drawing.
It’s been drying off for a couple of days and I am about to carry on with it, if the light isn’t too bad I’ll take another photo and post later. Enjoy yourself Denise and Hilary!
The surface is a bit bumpy, it has a couple of painting underneath the gesso. I’ve improvised on some of the colours as I don’t have all that Alan has listed and I may have missed out a couple of fields in my initial drawing.
It’s been drying off for a couple of days and I am about to carry on with it, if the light isn’t too bad I’ll take another photo and post later. Enjoy yourself Denise and Hilary!
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I think that looks smashing Fiona, not that I have experience but it just looks good to me. I have been painting a train today, I didn't get it finished as I thought, so tomorrow, I will be busy. I will finish the train, then start the oil painting. I found it hard getting quinacridone red but I got a quinacridone magenta. When I get to that stage, I will just try to play about with mixing the colours to try and get the right tone.
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You know me too well Alan, as you would guess, I’m itching to get it finished but I’m being patient! Very out of character. I’ll give you a shout when it all starts to go wrong.
Denise, I don’t have quinacridone red either, I used ultra marine pink but Alan did mention that Al. Crimson would have worked just as well.
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You are right Alan. The canvas board is rectangular, rather than a square shape and I was worrying about everything looking stretched out. I will take a better look in the natural daylight tomorrow as I was working with the lamp on this evening. The church is from your other snowy scene but you are right, it looks so big now. I will probably knock it out when I put the sky in. Thanks for your advice also.
