For the love of paint! Small landscapes, tablescapes, peoplescapes in oil.
posted by Roxanne Steed at
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Home schooling my daughters encouraged me to renew my childhood love of art. "Mom, teach us to draw" became the motivation to rededicate myself to drawing and painting. As a Navy wife for over twenty-five years, I have been able to live in some of the most beautiful towns on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as well as travel to Hawaii, Singapore, Italy, France, England and Ireland. I've pursued my formal art education along the way at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, CT; The Art League School in Alexandria, VA; and Watts Atelier in Encinitas, CA.
I find the textural quality of paint an exciting element of painting as much as design, composition, and color. Evoking an emotional response to a 'sense of place' is a great thrill for me. I use palette knife by itself or in a combination with a variety of brushes to reach my desired aim in my paintings.
What do I love in a painting? One that is compositionally strong - that will draw me in from across the room....rewarding me when I am close up to it with an interesting finish; a wow-factor of that last wonderful detail. Done, but not "done to death".
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Roxanne, I'm fascinated by the texture you get with your oils. Do you use a palette knife?
Thanks Sheila! I do like to use palette knives on the larger paintings & some of the smaller ones (maybe down to 9x12). Usually on the really small ones like 6x8 & 8x10 I'll either use a combination of knives & brushes or just go with brushes. I started really developing this in my work about 2 years ago, using only round brushes...and made myself LAY on the paint instead of thinly scrubbing it on. For example, take your index(pointer) finger of your right hand & draw it across the back of your left hand like you were touching something delicate like a butterfly wing - that's how carefully you lay on paint(with a light touch). Now that I've developed the touch for how I like to lay it on...I'll use anything in my arsenal of brushes to get the stuff on - usually filberts, flats or rounds (hog bristle). If you're careful, you can lay wet onto wet without disturbing the underneath color. But if you want to you can also press harder, in effect carving up some of the under color. And while I do use a fairly simple(limited) palette, I do lay out a LOT of each color, especially white...using lots of paint will help/in the texture department. It's sort of like frosting a cake, you have to have enough frosting so you don't mess up the cake part underneath! Hope that helps!
Hey, thank you for the detailed response. It's great when painters are happy to share how they arrive at the finished work. I would never have guessed that you were working in that way. It's so different from scumbling and glazing for example. Thanks for sharing that so readily!
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