"French Mountains"
November 27, 2022
Oil on canvas
50x60cm
This one was made using only the palette knife.
I added talcum powder to the paint to make it thicker and to avoid as much mudmixing as possible. It worked. 🤗
Based on a photograph I took in France, back in the summer of 1995.
Love this painting! Gorgeous mountains and wonderful depth!
I agree with Niv… your talent is incredible! These French mountains look 100% real!
Very good work!
Talcum powder, that's a new one for me! That's so cool that it worked, is this an established method for improving snow break (I assume that's the reason you did it), or did you just come up with the idea yourself? I'm really curious to know the details of the method so I can try it myself :D
@Jeff:
I was looking for a way to thicken my paint. The Royal Talens Van Gogh brand I'm using has a very firm Van Dyke Brown, but the Titanium White is less firm. Still firm enough for the Bob Ross wet-on-wet method, but I wasn't sure it would be able to handle this much paint on top of eachother.
I searched on the internet and that is how I found out about talcum powder. I believe it is best to have a pure talcum powder. So not the perfumed stuff used for babies and feet and such.
Talcum powder is a bit oily by itself (as opposed to chalk for example) so it kinda made sense that it would work.
And it did. I had very firm and dry paint which enabled me to put on all those colours and layers with the knife. :D
And it also helped with breaking the paint even with all that paint already on there.
This is very eye catching with depth, color and excellent knife work.
This is Great! Color/texture/depth - all wonderful!
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