"AFTERNOON"
I decided to try my hand at some palette knife work, or as some would refer to it--painting knife work. This is an oil painting on a 16" x 20" RayMar Canvas Panel.
About Me
- Bill
- Glendale, Arizona, United States
- I am an artist working in oils and watercolors. I have been painting for over 25 years. I have a BS degree in industrial education, and over 40 years as a color separator in the lithographic trade, where I worked on copy cameras, scanners, and, more recently, in Photoshop, and now I am retired from that vocation. I also taught color theory and application at Arizona State University. I enjoy painting, and all my subjects are for sale, unless marked "SOLD." I recently resigned from teaching an oil painting class at a local recreation center, which I did for 9 years, but I still offer private lessons on my glazing technique. I am a conservative, American, Capitalist sort of an artist, and today we have a blithering idiot as President of this United States of America, in the form of Sleepy Joe Biden! He is truly the worstt president I've experienced in my lifetime, and I lived through most of WWII ! Best wishes to our past president, Donald Trump, with sincere hopes that he runs for President once more, so that we may experience the excellence, and common sense that we realized under his administration!! williamfmartin@cox.net Bill Martin ___________________________
Hi, I saw your post in wetcanvas forum. Would like to know your paint medium recipe. Thanks Lisa
ReplyDeleteThis is my recipe:
ReplyDelete2 portions Linseed Oil
2 portions Walnut Oil
1 portion Canada Baslam
2 portions Oil of Spike Lavender
Beautiful painting
ReplyDeleteHi Bill. Lovely work. You've master the layering method. I'm sure you know that there are painting knives and palette knives. Not an arbitrary distinction.
ReplyDeletefrom Wikipedia:
palette knife resembling a putty knife with a rounded tip, suited for mixing paints on the palette;
painting knife with a pointed tip, lowered or "cranked" like a trowel, suited to painting on canvas.
But we can make marks however we like!
All the best, Sean.
Hello, I saw your comment on Wet Canvas about diluting Gamvar Varnish with Gamsol to create a retouch varnish. You said 1 to 3 parts. So which is 1 part and which is 3 parts? Thanks much.
ReplyDeleteI would have thought I'd have suggested 1 to 1, but if I did suggest 1 to 3, that would be 1 part GamVar Varnish to 3 parts Gamsol.
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ReplyDeleteI like your bio! I would add, I am praying for a fresh start as we have been gifted a second chance. Nothing new under the sun however:
ReplyDelete3000 years ago, Nehemiah dealt with the very same erosion of faith, government, and country.
Nehemiah 13: (ESV)
To finish faithfully, we must guard against spiritual drift.
God freely gives us a fresh start, but what He desires from us is a faithful finish.
Nehemiah says:
Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God. 8 I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room. 9 I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.
10 I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them, and that all the Levites and musicians responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields. 11 So I rebuked the officials and asked them, “Why is the house of God neglected?” Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.
I love the texture that can be achieved with this technique.
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