Lifetime Guarantee – oil portrait painting of a man

Lifetime Guarantee
oil portrait painting
daily painting: 365 day project
day 39

This is the first layer of oils. Yup, I’m doing it again..not posting a finished painting. It’s just not possible to paint these oil portraits in one sitting. I already knew that, but thought maaaybe I could pull it off. Nope.

Here’s why..I work with different oil mediums to thin the oil paint because it’s too thick for me to use out of the tube. In case you don’t know, the mediums can also be used to slow down or speed up your drying time, depending on what your needs are.

Because the fat over lean rule when painting with oils, my first layer is quite thin, and a bit slippery feeling from the mediums I used. If I keep working on it, I’m going to create a bunch of smear, which I don’t want. So, I’m going to leave it, let it dry a bit, and go back in with a second layer.

For the second, and probably final layer, I will use less medium because again, you want to build the layers according to the fat/lean rule. If there is a third layer, which I doubt there will be on this one, I wouldn’t use any medium on it or very very little because you want the most oil paint (fat) as the top layer.