I finished this painting yesterday. Actually, the application was done nearly three weeks ago, however it has largely taken that long to completely dry. This painting is different from my usual efforts in that I used oil based paints along with my traditional acrylics. I rarely ever use oils because of their drying time. But, this was my last really large canvas and I had some oils laying around that I wanted to finish.
The composition came to me rather quickly, but as noted above the drying time was forever. I like to finish my paintings with a thin polyurethane coat to give my paintings a sheen, but you can’t apply until the canvas is completely dry. Yesterday, I finally felt the oils were sufficiently dry enough to apply a coat. Sure enough there was not any smearing.
I can’t really interpret what the colors represent as I was trying to finish off my remaining oils and these were the colors I had left. I am sure there is something there for me to interpret but right now I am just excited to get this posted to share.
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