Jan 26 (edited) • General discussion
A trial and error process
Hi dear members
Hope you have started a good week today.
It’s a half moon evening, and here I’ve been experimenting oil pastels on an unusual surface.
I bought a bunch of small wood panel treated by gesso many years ago. I just thought about using it for the oil pastel painting, which I thought would be a good idea.
It proved how wrong I was… the smooth surface of gesso on the wood doesn’t like oil pastels. The colours don’t spread evenly and when I tried to put different colours, the pastel stick just skid to show the white surface of the panel.
I fed up with struggling so I stopped painting and left it over night. The following day, I use small amount of turpentine with a soft brush trying to smooth out the surface but the brush picked up most of previously laid paint, it was an another failure.
“It’s a good job” I said to myself “that I haven’t got a fireplace” and I changed to the oil paint to continue working. Yeah, in my old house where I had a fireplace, I would just throw it in the fire.
Still it was not so easy but at least the oil paints work on the panel surface better. Still not satisfactory though, colour mixing is more manageable. I haven’t finished this small painting, will continue when the oil paint drys a little.
Trial and error… There is no shortcut to the success.
So my friends, keep enjoying the art! Life is a process, there is no goal!
Thank you for reading.
Midori
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