"Orange, Apple, Teapot, Rose"

11x14 oil on stretched canvas

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Comment by Perri Rabin on March 27, 2012 at 17:32: Hi Susie thank you for your comment on my painting:) It is very sweet. Your painting is lovely. I like the cloth's wrinkles and the way you painted the apple too. Adding a red reflection from the beautiful apple into the pitcher from that lighted sidewould be nice just as you did with the orange directly in front! Anyway lovely!

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 11, 2012 at 4:58: Susie, Johannes uses Liquitex modeling paste (this is acrylic gel with pumice); I have used this and have started using Liquitex thick gesso. That works well. If you want linen or canvas on the board, the acrylic gel works great. I have also been using gesso with casein in it for more adherence; I make this myself from a dutch artist's web site. I usually paint on panels up to 12" by 16" and stretched canvases for larger than that. For outdoor painting, I sometimes use loose canvas from pads, double stick taped to cardboard and later mount it on a board. As long as your paint is not too thick and it is dry, you won't crush it with the brayer. I'm on call this weekend and working on moving more stuff into my studio. Plus, I am going to get my still life done or at least started, because we're going to Yosemite next weekend. Have a good day. Stu

Comment by susie gregory on March 11, 2012 at 1:43: that's what i've been doing...1/4 inch untempered masonite...probably overkill...i've been adding ground pumice to gesso...of course if i spent less time prepping and more time painting....hoosiers got knocked out of the big ten tourney yesterday...i plan to spend all day in my studio!

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 10, 2012 at 15:43: Susie, I use Golden's soft body gloss acrylic gel. I trowel it on thinly with a wide palette knife after sealing the panel with Golden's GAC100 polymer. I then put some wax paper over it and use a rubber brayer to flatten it down. Next I clamp it with a bunch of plastic spring clamps to another panel and set some books on it for a couple of hours. You can also use "Miracle Muck" instead of the acrylic gel; it's a pH neutral fabric adhesive that a lot of artists use. More and more I'm just texturing a panel with acrylic gel or thick gesso and no canvas. Stu

Comment by susie gregory on March 10, 2012 at 6:44: i guess we're all alike! - back in 1980 we added a new kitchen on to our house...when i priced stain glass windows, i figured i'd learn to do them myself. the first was a beast and the second..identical...went like the wind!...i started watercolor around the same time and took lots of classes, workshops with nationally known watercolorists. that was my love!! then i discovered pastel...that was my love...and then came oils...needless to say..that's become my love..such a more forgiving medium than watercolor..sharon..have you tried experimental stuff with watecolor and mixed media - that's the most fun!...stu - i've prepared lots of panels but have yet to glue canvas to them - what do you use for glue? - and i could never do the woodworking you do...maybe it's the surgeon in you!...gotta run - i must get some work done befire IU plays at 230!

Comment by Sharon Casavant on March 10, 2012 at 4:01: Pastel is fun, too, I have done a couple... I kinda fiddle with most mediums but like the look of oil mostly.

Comment by Sharon Casavant on March 10, 2012 at 3:45: Hi, Stuart and Suzie! I love the look of watercolor. I guess I will post mine. It's just about finished. One thing, it goes much quicker than oil and is less expensive. I am kinda afraid to put down the paint full strength, though. Mine is lots of layers upon layers until it gets dark enough. AND, I learned one thing to not add white to lighten a color, it makes it milky! BUT I am still painting an oil with oranges, just wait until you see it!! I already have the idea and taken a few photos.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 10, 2012 at 3:15: Susie, you've got me there; all I've got are pastel pencils. But I do have a lot of colored pencils, the wax ones, the watercolor ones; and pens and bottles of ink. And I even have a whole bunch of stained glass, tools, lead cames, etc. I am kind of an arts and crafts hobbiest and an inveterate DIYer, even to the point of making my own panels, pochade box and picture frames. I am currently trying to get all this stuff organized in my new art studio. The wood working stuff stays in the garage. Keeps me busy. Stu

Comment by susie gregory on March 10, 2012 at 0:43: how about those boxes pf pastels?...rembrandt, schminke..those are so wonderfully buttery...irridescent, oil pastel...got em all...my grands already love them...aren't we something?...oh - i also have some REALLY big canvases...just in cases...(as they say in "love actually")...

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 9, 2012 at 15:36: Susie, you are way too much! But, I want to see Sharon's watercolor too. I have never done much in watercolors, either, but I am 100% self taught (except for a couple of books) in that medium. And, I may have enough oil paint for my grandkids to paint the rest of their days also; plus all the acrylics. Now, Sharon, if she's going to paint more of those four footers could run out of paint and need some new big brushes! Stu