One of the days when Sue was here, she wanted to paint with oils. I have some Winsor-Newton Water Mixable ois with me in Angel Fire, so we cracked them open. She worked on painting some buffalo we had taken photos of north of Questa.
I decided to do two small paintings of the church in Ranchos de Taos. The church has many interesting shapes and shadows. I painted smoothly without many brush strokes and with very little background. I think this technique emphasizes the shapes and negative spaces. Negative spaces are the shapes surrounding the main focus/object of your painting.
These are painted on cradled Gessobord. I decided to paint the edges blue to make them more southwest looking. I painted the edges with oils, too.
After I finished I wished I had painted the edges with acrylic paint so they would dry quicker. Too late, now. You can paint oil over acrylic paint but not vice versa. The acrylic paint will not adhere to the oil. The oil underneath will not dry. Hopefully these two small paintings will be dry enough for the show on September 3 here in Angel Fire. (See sidebar for show info)
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| Backside, Oil 6 x 6 inches |
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| Shadow Side, Oil 6 x 6 inches |
4 comments:
Both of these have great style and color - I really like 'em.
Bag Blog, thank you so much. I love southwest colors. I should do more.
Nice! I forgot to tell you I liked 'em in person. I hope they dry for you!
Thanks, Joanna. I forgot to show you the balloons and some others. Shucks....
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