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"PATRIOT"
West Higland White Terrier
Oil on Linen
40 x 50 cm

(Painting Number 1 of a series of 4.
Work in progress:

Highland Terriers:

Scottish Terrier

Cairn Terrier

Skye Terrier

New Release - Artwork in the making

On point
Size: 60 x 50 cm, Oil on panel

Friends of the English Pointer will be fascinated by this stunning oil!
Whereas photos pale over the years, a painting keeps its charme from the first day!
Like my other oils, this artwork was painted by building up layers of color.

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	OILPAINTING
	ACRYLIC
	PASTEL
	CHALK, CHARCOAL

Oilpainting:

Oils are one of the great classic media, and have dominated painting for five hundred years. They remain popular for many reasons: their great versatility, offering the possibility of transparency and opacity in the same painting and the lack of colour change when the painting dries.
The colours are made by dispersing pigments in linseed or safflower oil and generally come in tubes. Unlike acrylics, they are very slow-drying.
The oils shown on my website where painted step by step, beginning with the preliminary painting used as a base for subsequent painting and glazing.
The underpainting is a toned drawing in oil that is the beginning of the painting itself. I use an underpainting to develop the relationships of dark and light in the composition and balance warm and cool areas. Sometimes the colors used are unrealistically intense in order to influence the colors of the next layers. This is especially true when the artist is painting in transparent layers (glazing). These first steps are painted with colors thinned with turpentine.
I continue to build on the underpainting in subsequent layers to complete the painting. I use thin layers of transparent colors carefully layered to build beautiful color effects. Each layer will have a little more oil in the paint mixture so that the painting will not crack as it dries.
My preferred "support" for oil is finest linen canvas, primed hardboard is available on request.

Acrylic
Acrylic paints, a modern medium which came into general use in the 1960s, have become very popular due to their extreme versatility. They are made from pigment, water and an acrylic binder, which forms a hard, clear film as the water evaporates. It is this transparent film, reflecting light from the pigment inside it, that gives acrylic colour its brilliance.

Chalk, Charcoal

Natural Charcoal is worlds oldest sketching- and drawing material. Today as well. In our technological world this simple material is still important to artists.

Pastel

Pastel is like a high quality colored chalk. It's very similar to a dry painting - however, it is vulnerable to damage if anything is dragged across the surface - which is why pastel paintings should be framed immediately. Once protected under glass, pastel is considered to be one of the most archival of art media as it is nearly pure pigment with a minimum of binder. I use tinted archival pastel paper or Ingres paper for all my pastel and charcoal drawings. Because the pastel sticks are rather fat and stubby, it's far easier to work pastel in the larger sizes.