Just had to paint another sunflower after attending Dreama's workshop. Hopefully doing a few of these little paintings will reinforce what I have learned. Anyway, I do love to paint flowers. That's something I haven't quite mastered with the palette knife. At least, not to my satisfaction.
I have been using Walnut Oil on these little paintings. No solvents! No turp! So far, I am fairly pleased with the results. I just have a tendency to use a bit too much. Also, after I lay in my transparent underpainting, I scrape off my palette, getting rid of the oil, & then try not to use any more oil or very little. I avoided oils for years because of solvents. I just didn't feel like my respiratory system could tolerate it. When I did start oil painting, I used the water-soluble oils. They are ok, but in my opinion not quite as good as regular oils. I still use them on some small palette knife pieces & sometimes when traveling.
Thank you for viewing my art.
-Sarah
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