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I got my marching (painting) orders:

2/12/2025

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Stages of Painting with Oil (from my consult with Yvonne Reddick this morning)
  1. Pencil sketch on support surface (canvas or board) prepared with GAC 100 and gesso.
  2. Draw in India ink over pencil sketch so it can be seen through the oil glaze.
  3. Erase graphite with kneadable gum eraser.
  4. Glaze with transparent oil at 40/60 medium/paint.
  5. Paint wet-into-wet grisaille, starting with white then grey shades. Do not over-blend!!!
  6. Let that dry for about a week.
  7. Add colour with transparent glazes on the grisaille (not a glaze over everything, but might glaze over sections, e.g. forest area, sky area.)
  8. Add highlights in colours and opaques. Do not over-blend!!!
  9. Let that dry!
  10. Details and correction and punch up brights/darks. Do not over-blend!!!
  11. Sign it. Let the painting dry!
  12. After a few weeks, brush on retouch varnish (2 parts Liquin + 1 part Gamsol.)
I probably knew all this from taking Yvonne's workshops, but apparently not in an organized way. This list is really helpful. I can check what point each painting has reached and plan for overlapping work times for several paintings at once. That will keep me from returning to a painting to soon and running into still-wet paint. It might even stop me from over-blending!

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