First Oil Painting Using Walnut Oil

By Elissa Rosenthal

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Well, in all honesty, this week has been a bit of a trial because of being sick. When I mean sick, I mean hardly-got-any-sleep-because-of-coughing-fits sick. Thank you though, to those who showed support. I am starting to feel a little bit better. *knocks on wood*

For this week I decided to try out my walnut oil that arrived in a new oil painting. I figured a good place to start would be to try doing a landscape painting. For this one I have been pulling from several references to create this scene.

I have not painted that much in comparison to other forms of media, so I think it is starting to turn out well for my skill level. This image you see above is my first layer of this painting. I decided to let it dry a little and come back to even out the skyline and add some more detailing to the water.

For the water I mixed some Rembrandt: Cobalt Blue Light and Rembrandt: Phthalo Green Yellow. Plus, I took some of my Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Color: Burnt Sienna and my Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Color: Titanium White to even out the rock formations in the distance.

For now, I am deciding to leave the painting as is until it dries. Then I can go over it with more paint. I want to play up the colors a bit more, particularly in the water and the closer rock formations. The walnut oil sees so far to be a very slow drying medium, so I will see how long it takes for the painting to dry at this stage in my climate. I live in Seattle, so that should give you some idea of what the temperature and humidity is like here.

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