Oil paints have an extremely long working time. This makes them wonderfully easy to blend and gives the artist plenty of time to adjust and refine their work. The downside is the drying time, which can be epic. Probably every wanna be oil painter has a story about that one time they used oils on a model, and it took months to dry. Certainly, I do.
Happily, there are ways around this. In today's guest post, Kristen Cermele shares her methods for painting model horses quickly - and beautifully - with oil paints.
Painting a Horse in One Month with Oils
by Kristen Cermele
Intermediate/Advanced oil painters, UNITE!
I have seen a few people say that they would like to try oils this year, but are too afraid of the drying time. There are several ways that oil painters manage to paint quick enough for NaMoPaiMo. Here are my best tips.
1. I personally do a hand painted acrylic base coat(s). Many painters do not and want their horses finished entirely in oils. But if you are worried about time limits, having a base color to work on that's closer to the color you want to finish to (or not, I say this often but I use gold and bronze as base colors a lot) than white primer will help. This is also helpful if you are painting a white/grey horse, as you don't want your "base" that can peek through the end result to be white primer (for yellowing reasons) but rather, white paint.
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