~IvanChristian

I have been doing quite a bit of painting lately but it has not been on my Wacom but using a brush and oil paints. With a bit of prompting I decided to have a go at oil painting seeing that I has been something that I have never done but always wanted to. I have painted a few works in the traditional way before (as in not on the computer) but I was using acrylic paints and oils are a hole different ball game. For starters there long drying times and the fact that you will do a lot of your colour mixing on canvas adds a bit of a challenge to using them.

After I started my first work (i'm working on a diptych which will hopefully end up in a local art show) I found a great article on acrylic and oil painting from from which I learned that I had went about the ground work for my paining all wrong!!! And yes I paid for I in drying time. If your interested in using oils I suggest checking the article, I was entitled "From Digital to Traditional" by Dave Kendall, a freelance illustrator, and you an find it in ImagineFX Vol. 28 (March 2008). And while I made a few mistake that i simple could not "delete" to fix was frustrating at times, as Dave says "getting your hands dirty and abandoning the undo key can be the most liberating and enhancing thing for your art." I had a great time using oils and i hope you like the product because you will be seeing more oil paintings in the future.

And btw I will let you all know how the art show goes, I mite even sell a work!

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