ideas & prep-work
This week I ordered some oil bars and they should be arriving soon. I have worked in acrylics for the past 20+ years, so I’m looking forward to dabbling in oil paints again. The plan is to use a few of the larger canvases I have in my inventory for large scale heart paintings…I’m thinking they will be more along the lines of abstractions when completed, but that may change. The oil bars are a little different than using traditional oil paint in that the paint isn’t as fluid/soft as it is coming out of a tube and they can be used for drawing applications very easily OR they can be applied traditionally with a brush. Here is a link to oil bars if you want to get a visual of them: http://www.winsornewton.com/na/shop/oil-colour/oilbar I originally started off using oil paints in high school, but stopped after 6 years for two specific reasons: 1) Paint thinners & additives started making me very nauseous and loopy when I used them and 2) Acrylics seemed to fit the w