Post #381371 by Sneakytiki on Mon, May 19, 2008 11:34 PM

Its looking swell as did your other painting. The great thing about painting is you can always paint over your mistakes, so go ahead and do the face on the wahine 12 -14 times, get fed up and then paint hair over it, it's all good! Nice figure painting BTW!

Your work looks like acrylic the way you treat the colors in bands and separate them, which is fine. Part of the beauty of oil is in the scumbling and mixing wet paint into wet paint on the canvas or dragging a fairly dry brush with a hint of another shade across the top. You can also do semi-transparent glazes just like in acrylic, substituting oil, drying medium, and thinner in any combination for water.

To be able to glaze faster over a lower layer, add drying medium to your paint, to dry slowly for wet into wet, add extra oil in to your paint. Oil paintings can get really thick so don't be afraid of too much paint and remember drying medium or Alkyd is your friend. Then glaze away!

I'm assuming of course that these are not water based oil paints, of which I know Jack...

Okay! now go critique my work, it needs it! I have learned so much about acrylic paint from the peeps here, I need more clues an' cues tho.

Paint on bruthaman!