Friday, January 8, 2010

blobs of oil paint


Another day of training myself to use more paint. A palette knife helps in applying big blobs - well, they're big to me. Others would laugh. Also finally remembered to clean my metal thinner containers and add fresh Gamsol odorless mineral spirits. Today's painting was more fun than frustration.

4 comments:

Katherine van Schoonhoven said...

A successful painting, indeed! It looks like you had fun while painting it!

What makes it hard to use paint generously?

Barbara Benedetti Newton said...

Thanks Katherine. My frugal ways are probably from my childhood. I'm trying to get over it :)

Celeste Bergin said...

oo I see the Schmid influence! This is a very beautiful painting...however you are applying the paint--keep doing it. wow!

Barbara Benedetti Newton said...

Hello Celeste and thanks for your encouragement.