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litka β Evening in the Hills
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Published: 2015-11-11 19:29:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 448; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 8
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8x12" 20x30cm acrylic on hardboardI consider myself an impressionist painter, but perhaps an "implicatist" painter might be more accurate these days, since I usually only imply things, without actually, you know, painting things. In this painting, we have a sky colored space on top, some dark blobs that might be woods, a shadowed middle ground that might be fields and perhaps grass in the foreground, but I've actually not painted any of that. There's not a blade of grass, a branch or a cloud in this scene, only the implication that they are there. And the title.
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Such a wonderful light in the sky!!.......The clouds are rolling along in a lovely way!!
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Sky? Clouds? Surely you're imagining them!
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No ....I see Β things in your skies!!!Nearly said there were birds there too.
When I paint I draw on the watercolour when it has run Β what Β I see on it...!!I even took photographs of my bathroom floor tiles which were slate because i could see shapes of animals and people on them.I took prints of them then drew what I saw on top of them in ink.
This is one...
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The world is indeed filled with unseen things. I see bats in our vinyl kitchen tiles. The pattern they're cut from isn't all that large, so while each element is not in every tile, it is in many in different places and orientations. I'll stand around and search them out while I'm waiting for the water to boil. However, for the most part, I don't search out images in nature, and hate finding them in my paintings.
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It was looking at your impressionist paintings that had me getting out my flexible modeling paste to add some texture to my painting. My inexpensive acrylics are pretty soft and thin, so if I want texture I need to add some extra medium to give them some body. Do you use more expensive paints, or add some medium?
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I encountered the same problem with my old studio acrylics... soft and perfect for softly painted pictures but they were too thin for the heavy strokes. So I also added some extra medium. Later I discovered the Heavy Body Acrylics by Daler Rowney and they are just perfect. Other brands offer similar products. Though I still prefer oils
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I use mostly Lukas studio acrylics, with some Daler Rowney system 3 stuff, and a few other brands as well. But I agree, for the thicker type of painting oils work better. Still, I don't miss oils. I like efficiency and acrylics are very efficient, even if they can't do everything.
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indeed, one have to figure out how things work best for oneself. I use acrylics for some palette knife paintings and when working plein air on a travel because they dry quick. Makes things easy to carry.
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In the past I added flexible modeling paste to my paints when painting to get a bit more texture than my inexpensive acrylics produce on their own. Haven't been using it lately, but having half a gallon around, I decided to put it to use. It produces a nice sharp brush stroke, holds the edges better than just gel medium, which gets rather rubbery, and a rather dry finish, since it has marble dust in it.
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