Another ACEO for today...
ACEO Flying White Egret is Prismacolor Watercolor on Yupo, used dry.
I love doing colored pencil. And I was bothered by having only three listings active, when I usually have seven or eight at least at any given time. So I listed Valentine Butterflies on Etsy when it ended and now did a second good one for today. I may do a third or more.
eBay Groups is down, so I can't post these to the Groups till tomorrow, but there have been times I went in with more than one to post in "February ACEOs" on my various Groups. I just hope the software doesn't change till it's unrecognizable for posting on the message boards.
I also put in a Blick order, but stripped off all the Mi-Tientes paper to bring it down to affordable size. I did need a second can of fixative -- with all the colored pencil I'm doing and the way Lisa borrows mine most weeks, kkitten42 uses it, HeraldoftheAbyss uses mine, I'm not happy unless I have the current can and a spare can for the workable fixative. I dropped the Bestine thinner again, will try that another time -- especially since I could use turpenoid and have that handy anyway. What I should do is pour out a small bottle of the odorless thinner into something more handleable, like a used pill bottle, to keep handy like my water bottle so I can use it with colored pencils.
I'm going to try doing alkyd paints. These dry much faster than oils but slower than acrylics. I bought a batch of little ACEO size canvas boards, and wanted to do ACEO oils. Alkyds are just oils with alkyd resin, so if I use those, they dry and are finished and ready to varnish within a week or so instead of my needing to wait for six months for the dang things to cure before posting them. This is what's stopped me from doing many oils lately. I won't have that large a palette, but that's okay -- it won't take that much space to store these new paints either and they can live up on the table with my other art supplies.
Plus I picked up Lisa's orange Coloursoft pencil for her and a Raw Umber replacement pencil, little things like that. Oh yeah! I finally got the full size cake of Master's Brush Cleaner & Conditioner. I've been using the tiny 3/4 ounce one I got in a kit and really love it, but did not want to run out of that stuff if I start painting more! Better to use the big cake, it'll last me a year or more before I need another one. Also I'm trying Liquin Fine Detail medium, to see if that'll help with doing ACEOs more than regular Liquin.
I'm going to be extremely frugal with the Liquin, it comes in little jars and so I don't want to use it up fast. Probably just pour out a few drops into the porcelain palette's center tray each time. Thinner gets used up much faster for cleanup!
I'm excited about the new medium, this should be a lot of fun. And maybe profitable, oil paintings get bid up a lot faster and farther than any other medium. They always did in every venue I've ever seen, there is something about oils that even the least art-savvy buyer KNOWS involves very expensive materials and high quality.
Of course I'll do something really grabby for my first one, like another eagle or hawk...
I love doing colored pencil. And I was bothered by having only three listings active, when I usually have seven or eight at least at any given time. So I listed Valentine Butterflies on Etsy when it ended and now did a second good one for today. I may do a third or more.
eBay Groups is down, so I can't post these to the Groups till tomorrow, but there have been times I went in with more than one to post in "February ACEOs" on my various Groups. I just hope the software doesn't change till it's unrecognizable for posting on the message boards.
I also put in a Blick order, but stripped off all the Mi-Tientes paper to bring it down to affordable size. I did need a second can of fixative -- with all the colored pencil I'm doing and the way Lisa borrows mine most weeks, kkitten42 uses it, HeraldoftheAbyss uses mine, I'm not happy unless I have the current can and a spare can for the workable fixative. I dropped the Bestine thinner again, will try that another time -- especially since I could use turpenoid and have that handy anyway. What I should do is pour out a small bottle of the odorless thinner into something more handleable, like a used pill bottle, to keep handy like my water bottle so I can use it with colored pencils.
I'm going to try doing alkyd paints. These dry much faster than oils but slower than acrylics. I bought a batch of little ACEO size canvas boards, and wanted to do ACEO oils. Alkyds are just oils with alkyd resin, so if I use those, they dry and are finished and ready to varnish within a week or so instead of my needing to wait for six months for the dang things to cure before posting them. This is what's stopped me from doing many oils lately. I won't have that large a palette, but that's okay -- it won't take that much space to store these new paints either and they can live up on the table with my other art supplies.
Plus I picked up Lisa's orange Coloursoft pencil for her and a Raw Umber replacement pencil, little things like that. Oh yeah! I finally got the full size cake of Master's Brush Cleaner & Conditioner. I've been using the tiny 3/4 ounce one I got in a kit and really love it, but did not want to run out of that stuff if I start painting more! Better to use the big cake, it'll last me a year or more before I need another one. Also I'm trying Liquin Fine Detail medium, to see if that'll help with doing ACEOs more than regular Liquin.
I'm going to be extremely frugal with the Liquin, it comes in little jars and so I don't want to use it up fast. Probably just pour out a few drops into the porcelain palette's center tray each time. Thinner gets used up much faster for cleanup!
I'm excited about the new medium, this should be a lot of fun. And maybe profitable, oil paintings get bid up a lot faster and farther than any other medium. They always did in every venue I've ever seen, there is something about oils that even the least art-savvy buyer KNOWS involves very expensive materials and high quality.
Of course I'll do something really grabby for my first one, like another eagle or hawk...