Fluid Beauty » oil http://fluidbeauty.com Portraits, Paintings, and Sketches by Steve Cleff Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:02:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Recent Paintings Better Photos http://fluidbeauty.com/index.php/2009/05/13/recent-paintings-better-photos/ http://fluidbeauty.com/index.php/2009/05/13/recent-paintings-better-photos/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 01:39:46 +0000 admin http://fluidbeauty.com/?p=487 lilah.jpg
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]]> http://fluidbeauty.com/index.php/2009/04/14/experiment-3/feed/ 0 Portrait: Liz Ashley http://fluidbeauty.com/index.php/2009/04/05/portrait-liz-ashley/ http://fluidbeauty.com/index.php/2009/04/05/portrait-liz-ashley/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:38:49 +0000 admin http://fluidbeauty.com/?p=409 Finished my most recent portrait today
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Here’s the work in progress

]]> http://fluidbeauty.com/index.php/2009/04/05/portrait-liz-ashley/feed/ 0 I’m an Oil Man http://fluidbeauty.com/index.php/2009/03/11/im-an-oil-man-2/ http://fluidbeauty.com/index.php/2009/03/11/im-an-oil-man-2/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:24:01 +0000 admin http://fluidbeauty.com/?p=337 I’m an oil painter now. I never really thought I would be, but a couple of things happened to give me the opportunity and here’s my first oil painting in 15 years:
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I’m thrilled with it. It’s much better than I thought it would be. In fact, I was so sure that I’d make a bad painting that I had to give myself a pep talk before painting it. I focused on the fact that no matter how bad it was, it’d be the best oil painting I had done in 15 years. It helped.

I’ve gotten pretty comfortable with the control I had in watercolors first then later with dyes and to give that up with a new medium was not something I was looking forward to. However I am enjoying the newness of it now.

I’ll write more soon about oil and the new options it gives me, how it makes it easier to show in a gallery, and my horror story of the last time I painted in oil. I started typing it all up, but it’s taking too long and I’ve waited long enough to post about this.

More soon

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Also, noteworthy, I made some important purchases today. I bought a starter set of oil paints, and some canvas to stretch to try using the dyes on untreated canvas. One of those will work and get me from boards to canvas

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