This is one of my first tries with Liquin, an oil painting additive that makes a nice glaze medium. The picture is my son and a pet rabbit from when he was about sixteen, he just turned forty four, so it's been a while. It was really fun to use oils for the first time in forever, I have a big problem with solvents and can't be around them long without killer headaches. This was better than turpentine and linseed oil by a long shot. There is a nice low odor mineral spirits product too, Gamsol, which I never trusted but is great. I won't be using this too much but it's nice to have it available if needed. I used a method on this painting that I saw on youtube about Carravagio's paint handling. Starts with a terra cotta ground (I use chalk paint for all my gessos) and works directly with a burnt umber drawing and form added with white that some color is worked into. I did that for the first layer with liquin as a medium that makes it all dry a lot faster and then glazed another layer of color with the liquin when the first was dry.
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