Mediums Workshop - Tues. 1/17/12

A few months back thought it would be fun and useful to spend time learning and experimenting with mediums for oil painting. Talked some friends into coming down to my studio for a few days to do it.

This evening the first friend showed up in time to pack our paint boxes and head out to a duck blind overlooking the marshes here along the Pocomoke River. We were set up by 4:15 and the sun set at about 5:05. Was just fun to do a quick-quick sketch.

Back at the house, after dinner for ourselves and our dogs, we went to the studio to set up for the next day. The next two days were dedicated to a few key things: working with different mediums, ones we had used, or knew about and seemed interesting; checking out different paints each other had – you know, who doesn’t like to snoop in someone else’s paintbox? – and to paint some! Also combining our efforts could ease the wallet. Who wants to buy a tube of expensive paint without really seeing it?

There are so many different mediums, evidently useful for many sorts of applications geared towards making the process of painting and the paintings themselves better. All of us have some idea but do not often have a chance to experiment.