Re: Help with Oil Painting - still drawing with my toes...

Zen Monkey wrote:

Thanks a lot Bob... I'll check out that Gamblin medium you recommended.
... and the W&N blender

So do you let your opaque layers dry before applying the next opaque
layer? I've had problems doing this smoothly. I guess a little medium
would smooth things out..



That's how I've been doing it, mostly for painting backgrounds. Put something in quickly which is pretty close to what I want but don't spend a lot of time on it. Let it dry, then do it again (twice even) with enough medium that it appears to blend evenly with the first layer so that you don't even notice there is more than one layer (unless you specifically want that effect). Then, when you've had a chance to look at it with all of the other colors in the painting finished, you can come back one more time to get the color just right - or however many times is necessary, usually adding more and more medium each time.

I do keep several paintings going at once. The biggest downside to this is that I sometimes go long periods where I keep starting new ones instead of finishing the ones which are half done. Right now I've got about 10 of them in various stages of completion, 3 which should have been done a long time ago, although I think I'm just one more application away from finishing one of them :)

- Bob C.

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