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Thank you alll, for your kind comments! I appreciate your thoughts on these two "mini's".

Donna T Contributing Member Messages3,359 Today at 11:06 AM Add bookmark #2 Your imagination serves you well! This is so nice and it's good to see you here again. You created a wonderful sense of distance. As I may have mentioned before, abouit 3 years ago, I placed my wife in a memory-care...

Thank youi very much! I used to help my granddaughter with her art at times, when she was in high school, and she became so competent with her work, that I now consider her to be a colleague, rather than a "student". It was she who gave me some good suggestions with this painting, after I had...

Thank you so very much! My granddaughter, who is a very good artist, has spoken for the mushroom!:):)

I really admire this sort of work!!

This is another 5" x 7" oil on Dick Blick acrylic primed panel, but I painted this from pure imagination.....No reference photo used.

Just finished these. Each is a 5" x 7" painted in oil paint, on acrylic primed Dick Blick Canvas Panel.

Excellent portrait, Sno! "Teeth" are difficult to paint, and you are an expert at doing them!

I've been using M. Graham Oil Paints for years, and I've found them to be excellent paints. They ARE Walnut-oil based, and they handle as smooth as silk. Almost no smell to them. I also purchase oil paints (Walnut-oil based) from a private manufacturer in Madison, Wisconsin, called, "The Art...

Yes, the Oil-Primed Linen Panels are exquisite. And, yes, the acrylic-primed cotton panels are cheaper. I've used them both, and that was when I was showing, and selling quite a bit of my work. When one sells their work, they can generally afford panels that are a bit more pircey.

Last time i checked, RayMar panels were about equal to the cost of a similarly-primed, cotton, or linen, stretched canvas that you might purchase from a regular art supply store. Perhaps their prices have risen since I last purchased them.

Within the past few years, I've been painting almost exclusively on solid panels, instead of stretched fabric canvases. The reason is that I believe there is much less flexing taking place on a stable material such as a panel, than on a flexible, stretched canvas. When I want to paint on a...

As a caution, you need to realize that the clear liquid that you see at the top of the container, once all the pigment has settled is not not necessarily pure "solvent". Resins (as in varnishes), Linseed Oil, Walnut oil, and any other types of drying oils that may be contained within you oil...