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Whenever I begin a painting, I usually have some kind of pictorial reference, such as a photograph, to start from. The next stage, is to execute the underpainting, which essentially means painting a base layer of colour onto the canvas.
Painting a picture can take me many sessions. I like my paintings to have a certain realism about them - especially my marine, landscapes and architectural pictures - and spend quite a bit of time mixing paints in order to create the right colour for a particular part of the painting. My paintings usually have several layers applied to them before I am ready to add the final detail; and that is why I prefer to paint in acrylics or oils: as these paints, when dry, lock permanently, layer upon layer.
Once a painting has been completed, I allow it to dry for just over a week (in the case of an acrylic) before preparing it for varnishing, which is the final part of the process. However, if I am using fast-drying alkyd oil paints, then I have to wait at least three months before I can varnish the painting. With traditional oils, it can take six months or longer before the painting is completely dry. Once varnished, my paintings are then ready to be professionally framed.
Art Materials
Below is a list of the art materials and equipment I have used:
Easel
Winsor & Newton Arun Easel
Canvas
Reeves Artists' Gallery deep edge panoramic canvas 32" x 12" (sized and triple primed)
Loxley standard stretched canvas 20" x 8" & 24" x 12" (sized and triple primed)
Canvas boards
Winsor & Newton Artists' canvas boards (sized and primed)
Loxley canvas boards (sized and primed)
Paints
Winsor & Newton Griffin Alkyd oil paints (fast drying oils in 37ml tubes)
Liquitex soft body acrylic paints (59ml tubes)
Liquitex heavy body acrylic paints (59ml tubes)
Mediums
Liquin (used with oil paints)
Liquitex slow-drying blending fluid medium (used with acrylic paints)
Liquitex Iridescent Tinting Medium (for acrylic paintings)
Solvents
Winsor & Newton Sansodor (low odour solvent in 250ml bottle)
West mixing metal pots (for storing solvent and Liquin medium)
Brushes
Pro Arte White Nylon Polar (sizes 1, 3/8, 4, 6)
Pro Arte Series B Hog Long Flat (size 12)
Pro Arte Series B Hog Long Flat (size 2)
Pro Arte Series B Hog Round (size 1)
Pro Arte Sterling 201 Oil/Acrylic Round (size 0)
Acrylix Series 202 Round (size 0)
Acrylix Series 202 Round (size 00)
Acrylix Series 202 Round (size 000)
Acrylix Series 201 Round (size 0)
Winsor & Newton Monarch Fan (size 1)
Winsor & Newton Monarch Filbert (size 14)
Winsor & Newton Winton Round Fine Hog (size 4)
Winsor & Newton Winton Round Fine Hog (size 2)
Monarch Glazing brush 1" (for varnishing) x2
Varnishes
Galeria Matt varnish 500ml plastic bottle (for acrylic paintings)
Galeria Gloss varnish 500ml plastic bottle (for acrylic paintings)
Winsor & Newton Artists' Matt 250ml bottle (for oil paintings)
Palette
Perspex type
Other materials
Masking tape (12mm wide)
Pencils
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