MORE ABOUT DRAWING TWO
AND THIS IS ABOUT DRAWING IN DRY BRUSH WITH VERY LIMITED OIL COLOR
When painting with artist’s oil paint, use a painting liquid mixture. It’s called a painting medium. This mixture is made by using one part artist’s linseed oil, mixed with nine parts artificial turpentine called TURPENOID. It is used in a plastic “squirt” bottle of some sort with a fairly small opening so that the flow is limited.
Place the canvas flat and squirt the surface with painting medium. Distribute the medium evenly, using a paper towel. Let the new canvas sit for a few minutes before beginning to dry brush. This will prepare your canvas to accept the limited paint. It will also prevent excessive brush drag.
Lay out some black, brown or other dark color on your palette.
an attach an artist’s oil cup containing a little bit of painting medium,
just a bit, not full and little bit are the two key words for this kind of oil paint drawing.
Use a 6 or 9 size white hog bristle, filbert brush which should be touched into the medium then wiped with paper towel. Just touch the bristle lightly to add the dark color and brush it out thinly on the pallet.. Wipe the bristle on toweling until there is very little color left… but still enough to create a shadow drawing on the canvas. Use a scrubbing motion to apply the tint. When the image begins to take shape, gradually darken and prefect it.
If errors are made, simply wipe the image away with medium dampened, paper towel.. When removal is completed, continue without having to wait for paint to dry.
I've often gone on to complete hundreds of wet in wet paintings, using this method of dry brush “shadow painting", working on sites all over this country. Check out my website at www.elbertprice.com for some of these works. Be sure to hit the link to Picasa for my latest paintings.
More about completing the above paining in subsequent blogs.
