day four : filler post

tonight (this morning) i sketched out my next painting and laid down the background for it. sometimes i wish that oil paint dried faster, but i can’t bring myself to use acrylics anymore. i just seem to like the texture and color of oil better. maybe i’m addicted to the smell now and can’t go cold turkey, who know. i have a point here, and the point is that i have to find something else to blog about while my current work is unavailable.

then i found this photo that i’ve been carrying around from house to house for years. it was from one of my great great aunt’s photo albums (i think). i don’t even know who it’s of.

i’ve always wanted to do something with this, but i’ve never really sat down to plan or design something around it. i could always just frame it and hang it on the wall, but that doesn’t seem to do it justice. the feet of this woman also bothered me. i feel like the top foot is facing backwards. it reminds me a lot of Wyeth’s Christina’s World.

i’m not entirely sure where this is going, but it’s just one of those pieces of an idea that needs to be put out there i guess. i should go to sleep, but my room smells like liquin. on that note, i think i’m using that particular medium the wrong way, becuase i like to build my paint up and keep it fairly thick, just thin enough to get it off the brush really. basically i could be using linseed oil or thinner and get a better effect without the translucency. any ideas for a better medium?

also, i opened up my blog commenting to everyone, blogger user or not, so feel free to leave some constructive commentary.