You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Creating Content as an Artist on Steemit
Hey @twirble, yes they're all in oil, i found it easier to start by painting a ground so every one of these has a brightly coloured layer of oil paint with lots of turps to help it dry. This was about 6 months after i started using oils and i was struggling with them! They are my go to medium now, you can do such a variety of things with them.
They are hard to use but they look so good when done correctly. I am tired of trying to make colored pencils and oil pastels look like oil painting when I should just roll up my sleeves and learn oil painting. :) The dog hair flying all over the house makes it difficult.
You can do it! You're already clearly a great painter, there's a steep learning curve with oils - people with a classical arts background will have been taught hours of oil painting. Self teaching is hard but rewarding :)
Well I did do oils years ago...but I have to relearn everything about mediums. Thank you:) You are an amazing painter!!!
I suppose learning again, although frustrating, will be fun in ways and you'll likely see some demonstrable improvement in how you visualise your work. I really don't know what the proper way to use oils is, but going by trial and error and developing your own techniques will mean your own distinct style comes through.