Esoteric spring cleaning
Oil 3. No more oil.
And as promised yesterday, bellow you’ll see the final photos.
In my opinion, apart from being bones and thus not having any details, he lacks some highlight, that is because I didn’t manage to mix anything like sunny skintone or ivory, the colours I usually use as final highlights.
Anyway, I really liked painting with oil paints and would recommend it to anyone, especially if you want to practice wet blending/two brush blending.
For my next oil-painting project I need to buy some stuff: drying medium, translucent medium, short bristled synthetic brush and two or three additional colours. Fun fact, I used grand total of 7 colours to paint that figure.
looks fantastic, really enjoyed seeing you giving oil a try. Liquin is both a glaze and a drying medium, so a two for one there 🙂
Did you put the oils on a pallet or cardboard before painting?
Putting it on a piece of cardboard draws out oil, it speeds up the drying time but still gives you hours or so to work with it
Thank you Gerry! I really enjoyed painting with oils, it’s a new “hotness” in my hobby after that one try. Liquin you say? I’ll add it to my shopping list. It is completely new area of interest for me and amount of products connected with oil painting is overwhelming, but on the other hand prices are much lower than among “hobby specific products” and the Internet is always there to help. As for the palette, I used ordinary wax paper/baking paper, piece of plastic or kitchen foil would do as good. I specifically didn’t want to use anything that would… Read more »
Loved reading this. I’ve been toying with the idea of oils for months now. Might finally jump in!
How thick do you use the paint? Do you think it down so it’s like acrylic consistency?
Thanks mate. Sorry for late answer, I was away from the Internet for some time.
I highly recommend trying oils out. It was very relaxing for me, and if you like smooths blends this is by far best tool to achieve them.
On this one I didn’t thin the paints at all (save for final washes) , the textures all over the mini don’t require especially thin paints. I did thin them a bit on my second attempt with this one: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project-entry/1549563/ but it was still quite far from acrylics.