All this activity in oil painting by a couple of my lovely blogging friends (who shall rename nameless) has made me a tad hungry so I took out my 6x8 pochade box and had a go at converting one of my earlier charcoal sketches into oils. The whole piece took about 2 hours, much longer than a pochade is supposed to take I guess, but I learnt quite a bit more about mixing and brush techniques and I really enjoyed doing it. I'm now considering finding the space to take my oils with me on our holiday in a few weeks time!
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| Hartford flood meadows, oil on primed board, 6" x 8" |
For anyone that's interested, the pochade box was handmade by Rowley Abbey at Abbey Easels here in the UK. They are really nice to use and made to a very high quality although nothing like as expensive as some others. I will be doing a review of the box (and brushes I use with it) in a later post.
It's Friday again - yeah! Have a lovely weekend everyone :)
I can see you had fun, all the different brushstrokes and effects! Lovely painting!
ReplyDeleteDank je, Judy. I had lots of fun doing this so I'll be doing a few more quite soon hopefully :)
ReplyDeleteThe painting is beautiful. I find it slightly resemble as Van Gogh painting. Just such short brush strokes.
ReplyDeleteThis is a nice pochade box. Convenient to take. How many boxes with equipement have you? Is it also possible to show your pastel box?
Thank you very much, Renske. I haven't painted in oils or acrylics very much at all so I'm still learning and although I used longer brush strokes for the sky I used shorter ones for the foliage. I'm very pleased you like the style anyway! I will add a picture of my pastel box to my previous pastel post just for you :)
ReplyDeleteWell Michael, I had some catching up to do here.. You've been a busy guy, and I like what I'm seeing.. Oil painting looks great. And don't be showing me these paint boxes.. Art supplies, art boxes from teeny weeny ones are my biggest vice.. My smallest watercolor box is about 2x3" ,, BJ
ReplyDeleteThanks BJ. It's early days with the oils yet but I feel quite happy with this one. Ok ... no more paint boxes then LOL. I have far too much stuff but at least I'm starting to use it more now with all this blogging :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Michael for the picture. The pastel box is easy to take.
ReplyDeleteThank you Renske. Yes, despite the fact it's made of solid wood it's surprisingly light to carry :)
ReplyDeleteWell done Michael! Have to say I have never figured out the wooden palette - I LOVE the disposable kind. No cleaning required!
ReplyDeleteThanks Anita. I'm missing my lovely enamelled watercolour palette - wood is a bit weird but I'm sure I'll get to love it the same eventually!
ReplyDeleteOoh - now this is how oils are meant to be - exquisitely buttery! I love that I can see all of those brush marks which have so much texture. Brilliant!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Sandra. You're very right, it is how oils should be, but it's not the way for the impatient watercolour fans like me :)
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