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Hello, I make oil paintings in the impressionist realist style.

This is my painting tag for ONLY paintings

This is my instagram account

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Prints of some of my pictures are available here [Print uploads are a work in progress as I am still new at photography and editing]

I offer paintings for sale and commissions on occasion, notices for these are posted publicly.

I tend to delete past WIP/candid posts and asks unless it is a technical question or advice [I do this because I mainly want to keep this blog as a catalogue of work]

🧅Thanks for reading🧅

onionpainter
Anonymous asked:

In your pallete post you say that if you want to build up your skills you could only use burnt umber and white :0? Is there a reason burnt umber would be better than pure black and white?

Hello anon, that is a GREAT question!

My short answer is that burnt umber is a very versatile and forgiving pigment to use, whereas black pigments [ivory black, mars black, etc] have less uses in colour mixing, are more difficult to handle, and can cause archival problems down the line, like cracking.

Further discussion and a commentary on this chart is under the readmore.

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Anonymous asked:

I have a question about your prep for oil painting, or more like when ur practicing. Do you use a specially treated paper to practice with oils (studies, quick thumbnail sketches, etc) before using canvas or do you just sketch ideas, layout on canvas and then under paint? I enjoy the medium a lot but I actually want to sketch and do studies in oil (without much drawing involved) but don’t want to waste canvas. Also hate painting gesso over stuff repeatedly. Is paper something you have tried? Any advise would be appreciated o wise onion painter

Ok, so as for my personal habits, I tend to do "Practices" digitally [I have a tablet and SAI] or sometimes on paper like so: [garlic is pencil on paper, rest are digital]. I do draw thumbnails but they are usually in marker or pencil in my sketchbook, and are little more than like, very stylized symbols representing subjects or different compositional patterns. Most of my painting planning and composition happens via digital photo collages.

The rest of my very long answer is under the readmore

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got a couple asks about my stuff so i thought i'd make a video about it, there's an items list under the readmore if you'd rather read it. [its my first video so uhh please be nice lol]

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godshaped asked:

i adore your paintings so much and, as someone in a bare walls apartment looking to fill it with art, do you think you’ll ever put your cow and landscape paintings on inprnt?

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Hi there, thanks for sending this ask!! I do have plans to upload the majority of my work to inprnt, it's just a matter of getting good enough photos of everything and editing them to be a nice printable quality [mainly editing out all of the little white reflection spots], but now that I know you're interested I can make the cows and landscapes a priority :))

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carwashcommunion asked:

Your cows wip post.... Gives me great joy... Also, please can you explain what you mean by "oiling in" from one of your marvellous onion videos?

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I'm glad you like my cows! I thought it would be helpful to reveal the process of the picture

AND: Oiling In is when you put a thin layer of medium [usually oil, but sometimes people use other slow drying synthetic mediums] over an unfinished painting in order to unify the surface conditions. [More on this and some photo examples under the cut]

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Anonymous asked:

Saw a post of yours during my last week of Art college and thought "damb is it too late to just start painting onions. He's got it all figured out why can't I be like this guy"

i dropped out of art school 10 years ago and was only really able to start painting seriously in the past 3 years, so, you know, you can paint onions too as long as u put aside time for it 🤠

#congrats on getting thru art college - that is more than i can lay claim to#the method i use is available on youtube at drawmixpaint if u are interested#its formulaic which appeals to me#asks
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🧅PRINT LAUNCH🧅

Hello everyone! I am launching my print shop! My Tea and Peaches painting and my Onions and Garlic painting are now available as prints!

I will be adding more paintings, such as the "Onions" painting in the future, more info about which is under the readmore.

If you enjoy my work and want to see more of it, please consider buying a print, tipping me through tumblr, sharing, or reblogging.🧄

#prints#artists on tumblr
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Hi everyone, been a while, heres a vid of me oiIing in this new onion painting. I hope you like it :)

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Anonymous asked:

How do you get such good photos of your paintings? I’m also a painter (though I use acrylics) and I can never get good photos of my paintings.

Howdy! I'm pretty new to photography myself [I got real into drawing in order to avoid learning how to use technologies and imagine the cruel irony of my life depending on the camera and the computer], BUT I can share what I personally do and some resources I've found useful under the cut. I wish you luck with your acrylic paintings!

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