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| "Meg" Oil on board |
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| "Cushman" Oil on linen |
The portrait of Meg definitely came to be by an accident. I had oil primed a wooden panel about a month prior to the painting and since it had been dry to the touch I picked it to start painting on. Thing is from my experience, the room where I leave all my supports to dry makes the oil primer take a very long time to dry. There are stages where it's tacky, then dry to the touch, then completely dry (starts to feel a little gritty). I had started painting and I noticed the oil primer underneath starting to mix in with the oil paint!
Long story short, it had made the paint very difficult to move and it had sunken in and dried completely the next day. Over the course of 4 days I painted and it gave me a very interesting surface texture I'd like to work on in the future.
