Painted on a 12x16 Linen Panel. Paints used are Michael Harding and Blue Ridge Oil Colors. Thalo Blue, Quin. Magenta and Transparent Red Oxide I mixed to make my dark color. Lemon Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Van Dyke Brown, Cobalt blue, Cadmium Yellow Deep and Titanium White.
I tried out brush dip that I made using 1/2 cup Walnut Oil mixed with 2 tsp. Clove Oil in a small jelly jar. Just wipe excess paint from the brush and dip it into the oil and lay on its side. It worked wonderfully as I worked on this for a few weeks and never washed the brushes until I was finished outside of the goat hair blender that I clean with Gamsol. I’d purchased some Rosemary brushes and used for the first time. A big wow for quality and handling. Their instructions were to never clean them with thinner but to use Dawn or Murpheys Oil soap. I used the Murphys and it worked nicely. Good riddance to constantly cleaning brushes between sessions and exposing myself to Gamsol!
Very pretty! Your cabin is so well done :-)
Thank you Helen. The water turned out better than anticipated. Just scrubbed some colors around and blended a bit with some toned down white.
Thanks Kerry. I do enjoy the challenge of a cabin.
The cabin is wonderful.
Is there a video anywhere teaching the technique you used to paint it?
Really gorgeous!
Very nice, the mountains, the little falls and the house are great!
Thank you Regan. For this cabin I created some Ai generated scenes with a cabin and found one I liked. I printed off the picture and scaled it to size on a copy machine. I then used transfer paper to get the outlines on the canvas and sprayed it with a bit of fixative. Might not need that step. See the attached photos for drawing and beginnings of cabin. With it drawn it it's just a matter of coloring it in to your liking. Small brushes make it fairly easy. I have drawn cabins by hand in previous paintings, but it's more difficult to get the angles correct.
Thank you Sandy!
Thanks Joha, I enjoyed creating it. 🙂
Great Lil cabin!
Fantastic looking cabin (and great tips on cleaning brushes)!
Thank you Pietro!
Thank you Aron, and happy to be of help with the brushes.
Ohhh my! That’s fantastic!
Thanks Stephanie!
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Brilliant job, love the glow on the water.