Tag: Oil painting

Underpainting with acrylic (3)

I may have done way more than I should have. The acrylics are taking over. For much of the last year, I’ve been doing heavily textured, multi-layered acrylics. Because I want to avoid impasto and thick peaks and ridges, because they may not dry enough for a stable foundation, I’ve been using acrylic with softer consistency, inviting a different kind of brush work, and quite different effect. Having found a different approach–at the end of that phase, I may not move on to oil–or maybe only one for experimental purposes.
Finished lower piece here!
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#1083-856 Man in a Dream

40.6x51cm (16×20)” Oil, acrylic ground, on canvas. My first oil in over 60 years… I won’t be going back to acrylic. Though it’s possible to replicate effects of oil with acrylic, I’ve never liked how it feels to apply them with a brush. I love the malleablity, being able to go over a painting the next day, and the next, and the next. If I ever get out of the house of horrors, and into a new studio… so looking forward to working in the new/old medium.
#1083-856.JPG View more work at Saatchi Art, and on may web portfolio: ART BY WILLARD For photos on this blog, click MY ART on the right panel and scroll down.