❤️ Artist, futurist, book reader. ❤️ Just here to share my original oil paintings (not currently selling any). ❤️ Only real paintings, nothing digital.
Palm Beach County, FL
Joined January 2018
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Fall landscape, with a Zorn palette and a big round brush. 6 x 8 inches on canvas panel.
There's also a more detailed article, on my free Substack, explaining the materials used to make this painting.
I wrote an article explaining why water-mixable oil paints stay tacky after they dry, and how to fix the problem. There's a link to my blog on my X profile.
I wrote more about water-mixable oil paints on my Substack. There's a link in my X profile, so go there if you want to read a longer (but still very incomplete) article with some of my thoughts.
Of course, not knowing anything hasn't stopped a lot of art influencers from making Youtube videos full of bad information.
I want to write a big review of Artisan and Cobra water mixable oil paints, because the stuff out there on the internet is so unhelpful, but I still don't think I know enough to do the topic justice.
By the way, the first time you paint with phthalo colors, that never comes out of the brush ever again.
Brand new Princeton Dakota #2 brush, vs. the one I bought in December 2024. Look at how much of the bristles disappeared in a year and a half! I will try to be more gentle with the new brush.
Zorn+blue Landscape
5 x 7 inch oil painting on panel
The purpose of this painting is to demonstrate the "Zorn" palette (white, yellow ochre, earth red, black) plus phthalo blue red shade, and practice painting on Ampersand Gessobord.
Pliny the Elder wrote about the Apelles four-color palette in his huge book on the history of everything.
Gessobord Zorn Landscape
8x6 inch oil painting on panel
The purpose of this painting is to demonstrate the "Zorn" or Apelles palette (white, yellow ochre, red ochre, black), and practice painting on Ampersand Gessobord.
8x6" oil painting on pre-toned canvas panel
This is the finished painting on the "Sahara" colored pre-toned canvas panel. I don't think I liked it, it was very hard to judge the green colors. The "Studio Grey" color is easier to use.
