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 :)
