Michael's 2nd Demo, Painted Over My Plein Air Painting

It was fun to watch and learn from Michael how to improve my painting by using correct values, horizon line placement, and a few texture strokes to indicate stones. My painting was transformed before my eyes!!! Thank you Michael!

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Comment by Laura Xu on August 6, 2015 at 4:38: Michael, I am so glad you explained to me more. I really thought Linquin can remove oil. My English :(

Candi, we all can learn.

Comment by Susan Burke on August 6, 2015 at 4:36: What a terrific experience for you! Getting together like that is great! Learning a good lesson about painting is even better!

Comment by Candi Hogan on August 5, 2015 at 23:49: Thank you Michael!!! I recently have been thinking about going back into a large painting that I gave up on months back...I would have just started painting on it! I'll go buy some Liquin now. You are (as I said before) my painting guru! Wish you would conduct a workshop!

Laura, thanks for bringing this up!!!

Comment by Michael J. Severin on August 5, 2015 at 17:41: No, no, no, Laura ..you are misunderstanding. Liquin does not remove oil. What I mean by "oiling out" is that wet paint will not adhere to a dried coat of paint ..it will flake off. Oiling out means that you put a layer of oil ..retouch varnish, linseed oil, or Liquin over the dry paint so the next layer of wet paint will adhere to the bottom dry layer in a molecular way. It will also make the wet layer more pliable to the first layer so that it will seem to blend with the bottom layer of dry paint.

Comment by Laura Xu on August 5, 2015 at 17:19: Michael, thank you so much for the info! It seems liquin can remove paint oil. It is very importaint to learn how to fix or improve painting correct way specifically in summer as It drys so fast. Thank you again Michael!

Comment by Michael J. Severin on August 5, 2015 at 16:43: Hi Laura. Linda's painting was small and was not too textured, so ..no ..I did not sand ....although, I have sanded my paintings when I wanted to go over an area with too much texture. I "oiled out" with linseed oil. Retouch varnish or Liquin could also be used ..but the dried painting must be oiled out. Normally, when I want to do some more work on a dried painting ..like I did with "Onward to the Shore", I will pour Liquin onto the canvas and rub the surface with a paper towel ..making sure the whole canvas is covered. This is how Scott Christensen does it.

Comment by Laura Xu on August 5, 2015 at 16:20: The changes just dramatically. Michael, do you sand old painting back or smooth little bit before you paint over? Did you use liquin as medium when you paint over? I always have problem to do rework after painting dried. How can you make it looks so fresh?

Comment by Linda L. Kano on August 5, 2015 at 8:20: Yes Michael, I think that would be good. It is called "Plein Air Study". I haven't removed it. It is such a drastic improvement...thanks to you!!! I keep looking at it in amazement... Nice to hear everyone's comments. You might get more company than you wish :)))

Comment by Michael J. Severin on August 5, 2015 at 3:49: HI Linda. Is it okay to direct everyone to the original you posted? I think it would be a good learning experience for everyone? :)