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Sandy Brooke 2014 mixed media |
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Sandy Brooke. Fate and Luck 2012. oil on linen |
Even though I have done a lot of painting over the past couple of years, I have not experimented with oil painting so I found the video fascinating. I did not know that oil painting started in Europe. I had actually thought that it was start in Africa or Asia. I also found it interesting that walnut oil was used or favored in Europe during the Renaissance. I had no idea that I could make oil paints and mix them myself with house hold oils. I also found in very interesting that a canvas has to have a prime coat on it before using oil paints so it does not rot due to a chemical reaction. I had know idea that oils could cause a canvas to rot so that information could prove to be very helpful. I also thought it was neat that you can draw using crayon or oil crayons then paint over them using oil paint, and the lines still show though. Every time I have tried a technique like that it has been with crayon and watered down acrylic paint so that technique could be used in other ways was interesting.
Kate, good for you for getting your blog up and running. If you want to improve your blogging overall, use images. Blogging, as I said before, is essentially visual. Using an image will help you support your claims--and it will improve your grade on this activity.
ReplyDeleteI really like that you tied what you saw in the video with your personal experiences. Sounds like you learned a lot about painting in oil. It is a wonderfully complicated media. You should try it. Come take a painting class!
n your first post, you do address the prompt, but your reasoning and evidence is a little shaky. Showing us the world in a new or innovative way is dependent on our recognition of something real isn't it. You could defend this assertion more fully if you used things that the artist says about her work, for example.