Anyway, the original is for sale, and it'll be listed on Etsy, along with prints, in the next day or so. The oil painting is on 11x14x3/4" stretched canvas, with the sides painted the same dark green as shown in the background. I'm pretty happy with him.
Oil paint is so much easier to use than acrylics and the colors are just amazing, so clear, clean, and bright when I need them to be and dark when I need dark. But I am having a bit of difficulty with the medium I'm using with the oil paints. I've been getting headaches, burning nose, itchy hands, and runny eyes. However, I believe I have already come up with a solution: a diluent/medium/brush cleaner by Gamblin that supposedly has no toxicity. I'll see how it works for my next painting, which I think may be of some adorable little Oregon juncos that were at our feeder just outside the window during our recent heavy snow storm. We got some really good photos of them, so I may give one a try for my next painting. There are many other paintings I should be doing, but one of these little birds will give me a bit of a break from the really heavy paintings.
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Awesome painting. You use oil paints beautifully. Try using walnut oil as a medium. It is natural and non-toxic.
Hi, Eileen. Thank you so much for your suggestion. I've been thinking of trying walnut oil for a while and just haven't gotten around to purchasing it yet. It seems that I read that it doesn't "yellow" over time, either.
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