painting

A few weeks ago I wrote that I had reached the end of what I could creatively do with color pencils and that I had decided I would try my hand at painting.
I was planning to try to paint with acrylic paint but the guy in the art surplies shop advised me to try oil paint.
According to him with oil paint you have more time to think about your painting while you’re painting it and you have time to correct any mistakes. Both are because the drying time is much longer then with acrylic.

Oddly enough, because of the long drying time, it also has a very strange down side. You have to paint several paintings at ones.
That is you can put several layers of paint on top of each other. With which you can produce very interesting pictures. But before you can put the next layer down you have to wait until the last is dry. Which can take a few days.
You don’t want to spent iternity waiting until you can paint the next layer. So in stead you paint several paintings at one.

I’ve just started my third painting while I still waiting to finish my second painting.

The other problem, of course, is that I can’t put a painting in my scanner. From now on I have to photograph my paintings.
So I’ve bought a little tripod and tried my own digital camera to take the picture. But obvious both need replacing.

The painting is kind of an accident. I wanted to paint the battle between yellows, reds and browns. Which is what I did.
Later when I started reading about oil painting I found that the first oil painting people make usually contains a lot of brown because people mix to many colors.
So I feel kind of saved by the bell

Color fight

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