Recent content by WFMartin

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...

Yes, it does sound like a standard, acrylic paint. I think your present choice of Liquitex is very appropriate. Both liquitex Acrylic Gesso, and Grumbacher 525 Acrylic Gesso exhibit a nice "tooth" once they are dry. It is this sort of tooth (roughness) that allows a subsequent application of...

Just curious, regarding why any oil painter would favor NON-ABSORBENT acrylic primer..... But, then, perhaps you are an acrylic painter.

After years of floundering around, searching for an oil paint medium that will make my paint handle just the way I want it to handle, trying nearly every commercially available medium, and being quite disappointed with anything I tried, I finally experimented with my own concoction for a...

I'm enjoying all these comments! ;)

Wow. I've got indoor/outdoor thermometers in three rooms of my house, each of which also tell time, a stove clock, a microwave clock, a car clock, a kitchen wall clock, a battery wall clock in my art room, my computer, as well as a grandfather clock in my living room. Of course, my cellphone...

Well, I'm surely not a Rolex enthusiast, and wouldn't have owned this one, had it not been presented to me as a gift for loyal service at the company for which I was employed. It's a "rich man's 'toy'" alright, and that is evident in in the cost just to clean it. I won't be doing that, and...

Years ago, I received from the lithographic company for which I worked for 20 years, a Rolex wristwatch. I believe that it is some version of an "Oyster". I wore it with pride for several years (not very many, actually), until it began to not tell the correct time, As I recall, it runs "slow"...

An age-old suggestion regarding the photographing of human beings is that the subjects should be engaged in doing something, rather than merely looking into the camera. It is usually considered much more appropriate to have the subjects casting their eyes toward the item that is holding their...

I like it, but I'm. finding it difficult to determine where your art truly "ends'. Is that corrugated background part of the actual art, or is is merely something upon which you laid your art for photographing. Those petals that extend over that corrugation won't be there in the final art...