I started a new cow painting yesterday. I haven't been doing much painting lately, and I was starting to feel withdrawal symptoms; so with all I have to do now related to my trip, I started a beautiful Jersey cow painting. She's a Jersey cow that I photographed a few months ago at a very small dairy farm about 60 miles south of Portland. I don't know if I'll finish her before I leave, but I'll do my best. However, she probably won't go up for sale until I return a little after mid-October.
The painting is so far done with acrylic paints on a 16x20x3/4" stretched canvas. If I feel I have time, I might finish the painting off with oil paints. I love the simplicity, speed, and ease of clean-up with acrylic paints, but to "top off" a painting with oil paints really gives it an extra punch of color and vivacity. This is not to say I can't achieve the same results with acrylic paints, but the oils make it a little easier -- and they go on oh so smoothly.
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