{"id":1107,"date":"2020-05-18T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2020-05-18T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:03:08","slug":"oil-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/2020\/05\/18\/oil-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil painting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve never painted with oils before last fall (I haven&#8217;t done much painting at all and never taken a class in it) but from the limited amount I&#8217;ve done since then I like them better than acrylic and I can&#8217;t really explain why. If you&#8217;ve ever had a game that you like because the pieces are nice, they are smooth and rounded and have a nice weight to them so that it just feels good to pick them up, that&#8217;s how I feel about oil paint vs acrylic paint.  In November I was invited to start painting with friends and hopped in, hoping I&#8217;d figure out what I was doing as I went.  <br><br>I started working on a landscape from a photo I took on the Isle of Skye of a heather-covered hillside and the shoreline and sea beyond.  Did I mention I knew NOTHING about oil painting (or any painting?) so it&#8217;s been slow going as I stopped every time I had to work on something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0058-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1119\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0058.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/img_0058-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-1119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0058-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0058-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0058-416x555.jpg 416w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0058.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">November 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"982\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_0066.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1072\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_0066.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/img_0066-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-1072\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"852\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0136-852x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1122\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0136.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/img_0136\/\" class=\"wp-image-1122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0136-852x1024.jpg 852w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0136-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0136-768x923.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0136-416x500.jpg 416w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0136.jpg 1065w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">May 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Progress over 7 months!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it looks very much like someone&#8217;s first oil painting.  The colors are too saturated, particularly the sky, and my brushwork leaves something to be desired, but I&#8217;m working on it.  I need to finish up the heather and there are some details in the mid ground I want to touch up before I call it done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After we&#8217;d been stuck in our houses a while because of the pandemic, I decided to bring the paint supplies to my house so I can at least work on something.  I was not previously a fan of the still life, but these are small, have simple shapes and are very &#8216;low risk&#8217; compared to a portrait.  If I&#8217;ve got some lines off on a lemon, it doesn&#8217;t make the lemon look angry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0118-1024x738.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1120\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0118.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/img_0118\/\" class=\"wp-image-1120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0118-1024x738.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0118-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0118-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0118-416x300.jpg 416w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0118.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0139-1024x762.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1126\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0139.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/img_0139-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-1126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0139-1024x762.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0139-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0139-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0139-416x309.jpg 416w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0139.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"772\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2088-1024x772.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1118\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2088.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/img_2088\/\" class=\"wp-image-1118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2088-1024x772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2088-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2088-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2088-416x314.jpg 416w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2088.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0123-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1114\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0123.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/img_0123-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-1114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0123-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0123-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0123-416x555.jpg 416w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0123.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Bottle &#8211; day 1<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0137-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1124\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0137.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/img_0137\/\" class=\"wp-image-1124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0137-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0137-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0137-768x1076.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0137-416x583.jpg 416w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0137.jpg 914w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Bottle &#8211; day 2<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Playing with oil paints<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Things I noticed: when trying to paint a white, shiny object, I should not have made the highlights pure white &#8211; it looks too chalky.  It is very difficult to figure out what the shadow color on a lemon is. I am not good at painting thin lines.  If I do a blend from purple to red to orange I need to really keep my brushes clean and possibly break it down over several days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, I went through my photos and decided to try another landscape.  This one is small (14&#215;11) and I&#8217;m thinking of it as a &#8216;practice sketch&#8217; for something to maybe do again later but bigger.  I&#8217;m playing around with a style and want to work a bit looser.  I started with a practice practice sketch &#8211; a thumbnail that was only 4&#8243; wide to get an idea of the colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0130-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1129\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0130.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/img_0130\/\" class=\"wp-image-1129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0130-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0130-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0130-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0130-416x312.jpg 416w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0130.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">thumbnail<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"807\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2122-1024x807.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1110\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2122.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/img_2122\/\" class=\"wp-image-1110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2122-1024x807.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2122-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2122-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2122-416x328.jpg 416w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2122.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Day 1<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0138-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1125\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0138.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/img_0138\/\" class=\"wp-image-1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0138-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0138-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0138-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0138-416x312.jpg 416w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0138.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Day 2<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The oils take a while to dry between layers and I&#8217;m prone to wanting to rush everything (I can create grey!) so my current solution is to always have 3-4 paintings in progress so I can jump to another when one needs time to dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never painted with oils before last fall (I haven&#8217;t done much painting at all and never taken a class in it) but from the limited amount I&#8217;ve done since then I like them better than acrylic and I can&#8217;t really explain why. If you&#8217;ve ever had a game that you like because the pieces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[17,181],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-art","tag-oil-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A0tE-hR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}