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Pretty sure I’m not gonna varnish this one to keep that “Smokey” vibe. Was very hard to just let try and not just keep tweaking things each time I looked at it, but I’m learning patience with each painting, which was the whole point of me moving to oils…

Have been playing around with this one for a while, still not really happy capturing what the below debths view of my earlier kraken painting could really turn out to be.

Not sure it’s done yet, but got a while before I can touch it again. So hard to stay away and not muddy the waters….

Went an interesting route on the one. Started with a chaotic mess of black and white and tried to turn it into something that actually made sense, focusing on a thousand mile stare vibe. In the end, I’m pretty sure this person realized what we see is really just our brain interpreting vibrations… two things I noticed as part of the learning experience, getting colors to land where I wanted over all that mostly still wet greys was a fun ride for sure. Also, setting up your lights while working and even more so taking a decent picture of an oil painting is a whole other skill set I need to dig further into for sure. Any advice this crew has on lighting and iPhone cameras is more than welcome!

Pretty sure this is the biggest thing I’ve done so far. Bought a cheap 24” roll of canvas, cut it about square and tapped it up to a board and this is the result a couple days later. This is also the thickest I’ve put down with oils so this is really going to test my patience waiting for it to dry.

Never really put much thought into my art supplies before, so figuring how much i spent to get set all up in oils just recently i thought i should do this right. I found making mud happens pretty easy with oils , so I tried to get a “warm and cool” of everything, along with opaque and transparent options for the yellows/reds.

I got mostly all gamblin artist, with a couple of the transparent and blacks being 1980/winton. Pretty happy with the ones I selected with the only miss being the winton viridian hue really being phthlo green. Lesson learned to stay way from “hue” I guess.

I tend to put out only the few colors I need at a time plus the earth tones vs a full on mixing palette, so I like options on hand. Am I missing anything blatantly obvious here or should i stop shopping and get to painting?

Cad lemon, hansa yellow med, Indian yellow, cad yellow med, cad orange, cad red light, perylene red, quin magenta, quin violet, diox purple, Prussian blue, ultra blue, phthlo blue, cobalt blue, cobalt teal, viridian hue(phthlo) phthlo green, sap green, cad green.

Naples yellow, yellow ocher, trans earth yellow, burnt Siena, burnt umber, ivory black, mars black.

T white, fast dry t white, flake white replacement

I still have no clue what I’m doing with oils, but I am glad I opted to go for decent quality materials. I’ve used golden and liquitex acrylics for years, and Sennelier pastels more recently so I’m not new to high pigmented stuff but I have never gotten anything to glow like what I’m already getting on my first few tries with oils. Cad red light and cad green just pop together. Amazing stuff for sure!

This one was a journey. Started with#2 matte pencil, then acrylic paint & color pencils, then some thin oil layers on top. First time finishing a mixed media in oil paint. I’ve used artist grade acrylic before, but these oil cadmium red and yellow, and cobalt teal feel like they practically glow! Having a blast with this dive into oil paint.

My son really wants me to do this guy but I can never seem to get him right, triple eyes are rare ugh… maybe next time. Matte black pencil, matte acrylic paintand color pencil. Still debating adding an oil glaze on top.

Still got lots to learn about oil paint… but this was fun