On 29 Nov, 2016 With
Feedback from Kathy Winemiller
At age 17 I was awarded a scholarship to do fashion design at the Art Institute in Chicago. My parents felt I was to young to go to Chicago and I had to decline the scholarship.
As years passed I decided to take an oil painting class where I rekindled my passion for art. The past 3 years I have painted a few paintings, but currently am studying with an actual art instructor. I am drawn to the impressionist style of painting and feel this is what my style of painting is closest to. …
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On 4 Nov, 2003 With
Oil painting is the ideal medium for the novice. It is an excellent way to study, because changes and corrections are easily made. Unwanted passages of color can be scraped off the canvas any number of times without injury to the surface. One color can be painted over another, drawing and proportions can be corrected, and all the nuances of light and shadow can be studied experimentally. The painting can be put aside at any time, to be picked up and continued at a later date. Some beginners choose oil without considering other media because of a reverence for the “genuine oil painting.” When they take up painting as a hobby they want to produce “pictures that show the actual…
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