Tag: oil painting
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Sketching With Oils
100 Day Project Day 13 I took a long time to get going with any sort of art today, despite having scribbled a list of things I wanted to get into to have a full-on art day, hopefully without also flooding the bathroom. It’s just the natural dust settling after my two days of creative…
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Scent of a Rose finished painting
100 Day Project Day 8 I think I am done with my oil painting. The photo isn’t perfect because some places on the painting are wet, and also we have bright sunshine and this is just a pic for this diary. I don’t paint in oils very often, and I am quite pleased with this,…
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Procrastination Cessation
100 Day Project Day 7 I wholly recommend naming your procrastination publicly on a daily basis, as I finally broke through and opened a tube of oil paint today. I tried all the excuses have been running in my head for the past however long it is, things like “oh it’s too late in the…
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Painting Over Perfectionism
Yesterday I spent some time on the oil portrait I have been working on. I am not much used to working in oils, so the learning curve is, well, curvy, and steep. I realise I have become quite comfortable in making art fast, and I enjoy that process, and it definitely helps me be loose and…