I was in Ottawa visiting friends from back in the day, back in Montreal, and as if out of some random pocket of a time warp, my friend pulled out some tiny forgotten paintings I’d done on tiles – tiny still lives of the charming funky place we lived in together so many years ago…
And my gosh, it was a revelation to me – most of all, that I had more or less managed with, more or less made my way around oil paints a couple of decades ago.
I’ve been struggling with oil paints the last few months – torn between the more recent experience of a fast drying acrylic paint, the possibility of fast endless layers, and the faint memory of a rich buttery wet wet paint I was able to negotiate to some degree some decades ago…
Now, trapped in work deadlines, I am fetishizing the time ahead in the studio…how glorious it is sure to be with this new-found half-remembered confidence…
Happy happy summer all…
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Lovely! You are very talented!
Thanks Jan! 🙂
You’re very welcome!
Beautiful artwork 🙂 I too prefer acrylics than oils. but I should give oils another try .. 🙂
Have a beautiful Summer
Over a period of time I started to notice that the paintings I felt most drawn to were done in oil, so I figured it was worth trying to learn again…
Happy summer, Sue ❤
I need to study oils instead of just slapping it on lol.. 🙂 Your own work is remarkable. xx
Very nice!
Thanks!!
Inspired to paint again
Do it!!!
Fun fun fun….
Sweet!
Super sweet that you thought to pull them up from the basement…!!!
I’d completely forgotten about them, but when I saw them they were so familiar… such a neat sensation 🙂