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Related: About this forumDid this small 6x6 oil painting today
I do mostly soft pastels but wanted to show one of my little oil paintings. Thanks to anyone who looks at this! 😀
niyad
(113,315 posts)LiberalLoner
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(9,762 posts)Diamond_Dog
(32,000 posts)I love your technique. 🙂
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(9,762 posts)Auggie
(31,172 posts)Love the design and touches of saturated color. Super job IMHO.
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(9,762 posts)PatSeg
(47,468 posts)Very dreamy and romantic.
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(9,762 posts)Deuxcents
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(9,762 posts)Bristlecone
(10,127 posts)Seriously, great stuff.
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(9,762 posts)sinkingfeeling
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(9,762 posts)Worst Username Ever
(6,618 posts)Water, grasses, and decay. Love it.
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(9,762 posts)stage left
(2,962 posts)So serene
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(9,762 posts)yardwork
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(9,762 posts)kentuck
(111,098 posts)it is lovely. Almost a Van Goghish quality about it.
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(9,762 posts)MLAA
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(9,762 posts)Cronezilla
(59 posts)What a beautiful piece! I can see you are a fan of Turner(as am I)!
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(9,762 posts)3catwoman3
(23,995 posts)Especially the moonlight on the water.
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(9,762 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,575 posts)It evokes a feeling in me of early, pre dawn time
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(9,762 posts)Joinfortmill
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(9,762 posts)BOSSHOG
(37,056 posts)Thanks for brightening my evening. WOW!
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(9,762 posts)bhikkhu
(10,718 posts)Things like that always look so much easier than they really are. And I don't see a single thing (other than a few pixel-sized pigment gaps) that could be better.
For that style of work, btw, I like a heavier ground than usual, such as Gamblin's oil painting ground, which fills the dips that you tend to get in the canvas weave a little better. A little smoother surface is more ideal if you aren't going heavy on the brushwork.
Framing on small canvasses is key. I like to start with the frame, really, where you can find something small and ornate, and then create a painting to fill the frame.
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)Do you teach?
bhikkhu
(10,718 posts)and I taught painting classes to kids when my ex-wife and I owned an art supply store for awhile. I'm not sure I was a very good teacher, but it was always pretty enjoyable.
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)At a local art store.
I dream of someday seeing the roche pastel store and also Sennelier, in Paris! Wont happen but I dream.
And classes! Not a week goes by that I dont look back fondly at art classes I was in as a young person
.mostly it was so wonderful to work with other people also working at art. Making art alone in a studio gets very very lonely.
How cool that you did such wonderful things for your community!
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)Glimmers, reflection of the light off the wet oil paint tbh there dont appear to be unpainted spots in real life I have the hardest time taking photos of my oil paintings without those shiny things is it just me, is there a trick to taking a photo of a still wet oil painting? Im so clueless
bhikkhu
(10,718 posts)and I'm not an expert on that at all. I think generally the more diffuse light the better, like a north-facing window. I have a reflective umbrella I use with a good full spectrum bulb to get a good color-correcting light on the canvas when painting, and that might work well for photographing them as well, haven't tried yet.
The Butler
(25 posts)Marshland Moon . What did you name it Liberal Loner?
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)There is a dark authenticity about it, on more than one level.
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(15,888 posts)I like.
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(9,762 posts)lucca18
(1,242 posts)💕😍
Please post more of your paintings!
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(9,762 posts)pandr32
(11,586 posts)It seems like it should be bigger, though. It could easily be a focal painting. Well done!
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(9,762 posts)bee_peaceful
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(9,762 posts)livetohike
(22,144 posts)and drift away. Thank you for this moment of peace .
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(9,762 posts)3auld6phart
(1,047 posts)Love it. My daughter foes watercolours., landscapes , mostly. Dont see h h of her art,as she lives in England. As an RN for the NHS.
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(9,762 posts)MOMFUDSKI
(5,545 posts)So much fun to created. Keep em coming
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(9,762 posts)BillyBobBrilliant
(805 posts)That would be in league with the great impressionists.
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(9,762 posts)MontanaMama
(23,317 posts)So lovely.
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(9,762 posts)kooth
(219 posts)That is so beautiful! Some day, I'm going to try to learn how to paint like this!
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(81,281 posts)A fleeting moment of quiet contemplation you captured and made permanent.
A gift to anybody feeling stressed!
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(9,762 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)Seriously..I'm not an art critic,but I love what you've done here!.
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(29,067 posts)Jarqui
(10,125 posts)Hope to change that.
Got watercolors supplies ... waiting for me to get going ...
Haven't done any oil painting in decades.
As someone who has some appreciation for what you just accomplished, it is so lovely that it is uplifting.
Thanks for sharing.
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)Tucker08087
(621 posts)I love your use of light! You are so talented!
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JudyM
(29,250 posts)Another gorgeous work of art. I can feel the scene as if I walked right into it. SO good.
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(9,762 posts)dai13sy
(335 posts)It's soft and it surrounds you like a hug. It's so beautiful. Thank you.
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