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Firstly I need to attach my paper to a glass backboard for painting purposes. Glass because it's easier to clean and takes very little in the job of taking as I paint over the sides and that adheres the paper to the glass. In the end I can remove the paper, fix the corner, and then with my knife under the paper I can lift it up and slide it on to a wood support for drying.
And here is the paper I use. Already gessoed and ready to go. Great paper for oil, I might add. I tire acrylic and the paper curled.
And hereis how I store my painings after they are dry or cured as they say. Takes a week or two because the wax is a good drier.
I use the same covers that I took the paper out of.
And here is where I "Plein Air" from. LOL .. This is a 55 inch tv I use as my viewing station.
And this is my dollar storage jar I use to keep paint from the prior day or a few days. It seals air tight. I've been using the same on for going on a year so it works and the seal holds.
And here is my medium. Cold Wax. The jar says Dorland but I use Gamblin as I buy it by the gallon and then scoop it into used jars. As you can see next to the new paint I have globs about 75% as large as the globs of paint. I use a very high ratio. It's recommened such a ratio use boards but I find the paper does not buckle and holds as good as any 1.8 wooden support I have used.
Colors from viewerlef to right. French Ultramarine BLue .. A Grey from the prior scape down and mixing of mud .. Cad Rd Light .. Perm Alz Crimson .. Lemon Yellow .. Indian Yellow .. Tit White .. and I have a Bone Black on the bottom. and a Pthalo Blue Under the FUBlue. The Crimzon is a little tainted from an earlier scrape down. No bIggie.
The big dark puddle is my dark green for trees made of a mixture of French Ultramarine Blue And Indian Yellow .. It is Semi or Fully Transparant .. I don't know. I know the yellow is transparant and I think the blue is semi-transparant. Anyway, it makes a lovely green. It opens up when push on to the white of the paper.
I forgot a step but the light grey green you see (viewer lerf) below the dark clump is my distant green used in the middle of the canvas to open the way so to speak. I mixed in the #4 value grey I had with the green and got this grey green. Then (viewer right, I mixed the grey green with the cad red.
And then I mixed the lemon yellow in the grey red mixture to get a gray red/green mixture. This will be the distant trees in the center.
So there you have the block in .. The sy being pthalo and ultramarine as a blue and white blue as the bottom of the sky. The viewer left is a version of the mixture of grey,red,yellow, lighten up and applied with a brush. The dark trees are the mixture of French UltraMarie and Indin Yellow. The
light green tree is from the mixture of the FrenchUltramarine BLue and Indian Yellow. The grey center is the mixture of Grey, Cad Red, Lemon Yellow, and the shadows are a mixture of French UltraMarie Blue, Pthalo Blue, and Alz Crimson very sparingly. After that its just a fix up; Lighten a value here, lower one there, add a color here and there. That is the fun part. You just have to stay in the layin. Just like plein air. You don't chase the sun. You get your initial values down as quick as you can before they change. You make sure you know what it is about these values that excites you, and then you just play within your initial values.
That's about all I can tell you about my process .. Oh, and when done scrape up the salvalage colors and grab your mix o f grey from all the scraps left on the palette. Then it's back into the storage jar.
And here is the paper I use. Already gessoed and ready to go. Great paper for oil, I might add. I tire acrylic and the paper curled.
And hereis how I store my painings after they are dry or cured as they say. Takes a week or two because the wax is a good drier.
I use the same covers that I took the paper out of.
And here is where I "Plein Air" from. LOL .. This is a 55 inch tv I use as my viewing station.
And this is my dollar storage jar I use to keep paint from the prior day or a few days. It seals air tight. I've been using the same on for going on a year so it works and the seal holds.
And here is my medium. Cold Wax. The jar says Dorland but I use Gamblin as I buy it by the gallon and then scoop it into used jars. As you can see next to the new paint I have globs about 75% as large as the globs of paint. I use a very high ratio. It's recommened such a ratio use boards but I find the paper does not buckle and holds as good as any 1.8 wooden support I have used.
Colors from viewerlef to right. French Ultramarine BLue .. A Grey from the prior scape down and mixing of mud .. Cad Rd Light .. Perm Alz Crimson .. Lemon Yellow .. Indian Yellow .. Tit White .. and I have a Bone Black on the bottom. and a Pthalo Blue Under the FUBlue. The Crimzon is a little tainted from an earlier scrape down. No bIggie.
The big dark puddle is my dark green for trees made of a mixture of French Ultramarine Blue And Indian Yellow .. It is Semi or Fully Transparant .. I don't know. I know the yellow is transparant and I think the blue is semi-transparant. Anyway, it makes a lovely green. It opens up when push on to the white of the paper.
I forgot a step but the light grey green you see (viewer lerf) below the dark clump is my distant green used in the middle of the canvas to open the way so to speak. I mixed in the #4 value grey I had with the green and got this grey green. Then (viewer right, I mixed the grey green with the cad red.
And then I mixed the lemon yellow in the grey red mixture to get a gray red/green mixture. This will be the distant trees in the center.
So there you have the block in .. The sy being pthalo and ultramarine as a blue and white blue as the bottom of the sky. The viewer left is a version of the mixture of grey,red,yellow, lighten up and applied with a brush. The dark trees are the mixture of French UltraMarie and Indin Yellow. The
light green tree is from the mixture of the FrenchUltramarine BLue and Indian Yellow. The grey center is the mixture of Grey, Cad Red, Lemon Yellow, and the shadows are a mixture of French UltraMarie Blue, Pthalo Blue, and Alz Crimson very sparingly. After that its just a fix up; Lighten a value here, lower one there, add a color here and there. That is the fun part. You just have to stay in the layin. Just like plein air. You don't chase the sun. You get your initial values down as quick as you can before they change. You make sure you know what it is about these values that excites you, and then you just play within your initial values.
That's about all I can tell you about my process .. Oh, and when done scrape up the salvalage colors and grab your mix o f grey from all the scraps left on the palette. Then it's back into the storage jar.
