Today’s ‘daily’ painting is one of an apple done on a Phoenix brand canvas panel picked up at Art Friend. It’s incredibly cheap at S$1 for an 8x8" square, perfect for guilt-free amateur paintings. It tends to ‘flake’ when rubbed with fabric (during the underpainting process), though. Decided to give panels a try to see how different it is compared to painting on stretched canvas. What I know is I will definitely need to make a panel holder like everyone else because it’s not going to stay on my easel for edge painting very easily. Another plus for a person living in a small apartment, panels save me quite a lot of storage space!
I also picked up two Daler Rowney Graduate series white goat’s hair oval wash brushes to try out ‘blending’ like how Gary Jenkins did on his Farbi Flora Painting series. Saw his ‘blending mop’ was made from white goat’s hair and grabbed a similar. I used the 1/2 sized one on this apple and found it blends very smoothly when there is a lot of paint on the surface. Quite a fun experiment since these brushes are originally made for watercolours. Definitely no need to dip this in turpentine because it would also make for an efficient paint wiper right off your canvas… ^^; I don’t know what I was thinking. These are just like blending brushes for makeup and we don’t apply anything onto it before blending! Similar concept…
About this painting, I think it’s rather flat… I used French Ultramarine for my underpainting (another experiment to see how final product will look compared to the usual burnt umber), mixed it with Alizarin Crimson for shadows, and dabbed on some Cadmium Yellow and Cadmium Reds to add some spice, but think overall it’s still a flat piece. Oops… Hopefully through more practising and getting used to handling oil paints, some results will show…
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