I have been painting long enough now, that you would think that I would remember a few basics! I’ll blame it on being too busy, but I did manage to forget an important detail.
If you have visited my website (https://www.goldenkstudio.com/ ) you will have noticed I am a bit of a detail freak. I love putting in detail. I have tried to be “looser” in my painting, but invariably fall back to the detail. This is one of the reason I generally paint on Masonite or MDF if I use acrylic or canvass with oil, or illustration board for my gouache paintings.
The reasons are fairly obvious…oil, I can’t manage the level of detail I do in acrylic, so I use canvass. Gouache tends to sit “lightly” on canvass or MDF… result, I use absorbent illustration board. Acrylic I like detail, so the smooth surface of MDF or Masonite is ideal. Close to 20 years of painting, you would think I would remember these points.
Well the painting “Bridal Pair” is acrylic, but I’m doing it on canvass. The only saving grace for me…fur on deer is not heavily textured; so I can “fudge” that it is not as detailed as I would normally do. Really notice in the faces.
So for those of you who plan to start a painting…think of the detail level you plan to put in the painting, and choose your substrate accordingly! Note the face of the deer.
Till next time!
Cindy Sorley-Keichinger
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