Text Post: Oil painting smooth painting posted by Painting
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  • Maternitus (edited 1 year ago)
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    This is, more or less, how I paint with both oils and acrylics. It's also what some (obnoxious and arrogant) art dealers told me they didn't like about my works: too technical and smooth, they missed the painterly character. What they meant by that is less accurate techniques, drips and blobs and "happy little accidents". I guess their heads are stuck in their asses. Also: art dealers are by no means painters, so I guess a little envy could be the source of those comments.

    I stick to fine techniques like glazing and carefully building up an image to a smooth surface where small subtle textures help define the image, together with complex layers that make light travel in ways that tingle my imagination and creates effects which represent Mother Nature in the best possible way I can achieve that.

    :-)