6 x 8 "oil painting on linen panel
Okay, lesson learned. On very small paintings, keep the subject simple. After spending several hours yesterday painting a porcelain rose on a 6 x 6" panel berfore giving up, today I settled on the simplest of subjects and compositions and still have time for another. My husband said he liked the rose, but he is loyal and supportive. I don't like it and it will not survive. I also went back to linen on this one and rubbed a whisper thin coat of medium on the surface before starting to paint. I remember Richard Schmid mentioning this approach in doing his beautiful monotone portraits. Even though the medium is likely "fat", if you are painting immediately into it and finishing in one sitting, it's not a violation of fat over lean, since it's only one layer of paint. It gave the surface such a lovely feel to paint into, just as though you are painting wet into wet from the first brush stroke.
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