One often starts an oil painting with a wash made from diluting oil paint with a solvent such as turpentine or using a lean painting medium. It is often useful to have a wash to block in the basic composition of the painting before applying thicker and more solid paint. […]
Whilst oil painting without solvents I use the following techniques to clean brushes and my hands: During Painting Rag A rag/cloth is incredibly useful with oil painting. Because oil paint dries so slowly you can clean most of the wet paint off your brush just by wiping the brush with […]
I found an Oil Painting without Solvents PDF at the Art Spectrum website. It is rather general but does have some useful information. In particular I found the bit about Spectrum Clear Oil Paint interesting: Spectrum Clear Oil Paint is a product well worth exploring. It is formulated as an […]
Here is a vast and informative list of different oil medium recipes and experiments as to how they perform. The author has also tested the different mediums and drying oils for their yellowing tendency. I’m looking forward to experimenting with some of the mediums that don’t use turpentine.
I have been using M. Graham’s Walnut Alkyd Medium for a number of years in my solvent free painting workflow as a replacement for solvent based oil mediums. I have found that even ‘odourless’ solvents make my throat hurt after only a couple of hours of use. I now stay […]
Here is a list of non-toxic pigments I found on WetCanvas a while ago: Violet-Blue Ultramarine (PB29) Green-Blue Phthalocyanine Blue GS (PB15:3) Manganese Blue (PB33) Violet-Red Pyrrole Red (PR254) Anthraquinoid Red (PR177) (good substitute for Alizarin Crimson in oils) Naphthol Carbamide (PR170) Yellow-Red Quinacridone Red Y (PR209) Naphthol AS (PR188) […]
I have re-organised the site, hopefully making the sections a bit clearer. The blog is now a bit more self contained – now I can post stuff on the blog without it appearing on the front page of the site. Soon I am going to change the front page to […]
A yellow wolf trampled and scurried up a long thin elbow. Long black hairs uprooted the harmony of discorded perception. The wolf wondered, what is this blue roof; why am I buried under leaves and whistle-brass. From within I pillaged and ran, forward and frantic. Where was the wolf. He […]
…………a word? Where the flow, a dash of crimson. Uprought pillar began anew an outstretch prick a hole within. Searching inward, expelling thus creating A universe from where? I think it came from there.
Slew the flame of transparent thought. Uprise and purge, within broken shatters, Glass resurgence, overwhelm the spoken mutter, whimper and clamp, hard grey ceil, blood. Dread, clamp within, Clamp and restrict. Clenched and expire, within surge. Glimmer, flame, uplift and restrict, bring Down, up, down. Uplift. Stretch of tongue and […]
