I've been painting up a storm lately, actually painting through two storms (Florence and Michael) when I was able, lol.
It seems I'm either inspired to paint or not and here lately, I've been inspired. These next three paintings were all done in oils - either alkyd oil or water soluble oil. I like both of them and use either depending on the situation : alkyd oil if I need fast drying or water soluble oil if I want to clean up without harsh solvents.
Anyway, here are some paintings I've recently finished:
The calf above was painted with alkyd oils and is my first attempt at a cow, except a sort of cartoonish dairy cow I did some time ago. This is 6x8 inches on an AlumaCorp panel. It's prepped as I described in an earlier post and I'm thinking of adding some kind of background.
The horse was also painted on a 6x8" AlumaCorp panel but I added gesso before starting the painting to help reduce the glare. I was amazed that even with a couple of coats of gesso, the panel still had a lovely glow. This painting was done with water soluble oil and may look a bit splotchy as it isn't dry yet.
This last painting was done for a challenge in a painting forum I belong to. The challenge was to paint leaves. Most everyone is doing fall leaves but oranges and bright yellows aren't my favorite colors so I chose this apple on a tree. This was also somewhat of an experiment to try
Julie Ford Oliver's fracturing technique.
Let's just say that a Julie Ford Oliver I'm not! But there are aspects that I like - several leaf shapes showed up by accident and that was certainly a plus.
I have more paintings waiting to be painted so hope to see you back here again soon.
