Fun With Acrylics: Needed Some Rainbows

By Elissa Rosenthal

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Little life update and PSA is in the next paragraph. If you wish to skip, please go to the paragraph after the next, thank you.

This week in my artistic journey I have been having a bit of motivational issues, which is why this post is coming out so late in the day, and for that I am deeply sorry. It has not so much been not wanting to create, as the fear to create. I have generalized anxiety, and I did one thing which put me on edge, I read an article about how this one gal had her artwork copied by a copy-cat "artist" in Mexico. Link to article HERE .This, plus reading all the comments about how other artists have had similar issues started to bring up my anxiety a bit. Though now I have started to calm down, possibly due to the act of creating, as well as the knowledge that I should not let my fear control me. I know I could legally copy-right everything I have ever created, but as a college student I do not have the funds to do that, nor do I believe my stuff is currently good enough to steal. I may in the future, but not right now. However, this does not mean I would take theft lightly. As a way of calming down my anxiety I have decided to let all of you, my readers, know that everything I post on here, as far as art, is my original artwork. As for the posts I did before I started to share my art, I gave proper credit, as far as I understand, to all creators. I encourage you all to do the same. If you share a piece of art you enjoy, give the artist credit, maybe even give a link to where you found the image. As for my artwork, you may share it if you wish as long as you give proper credit to me. I do not give anyone permission, however, to make money off of my artwork. I ask you all to please be courteous of my rights as the original artwork creator, and thank you for reading my little life update.

This is the artwork I decided to create today as my anxiety was acting up a bit. So please, excuse me for it not being the best. In hindsight I probably should have made the sky a bit lighter. I may try in the future to correct that error, as I have no more time to do that today as the day is coming to a close and I need to post before the day is up.

The time was not wasted though, I found out some little tricks when it comes to acrylic paints. One is to do the farthest back layer first. In this artwork that was the sky. You do this first, because one of the few luxuries of acrylic paint is it will dry quite quickly, meaning you can paint over the layer you put down previously. This brings me to the second trick I found out, which is layering. Each part of this painting I went over at least three times, to make sure it was opaque, since this was the look I was going for. If you are finding your paint is looking more transparent than you want it to be, try letting it dry a little and put another layer of the same paint on top of the previous layer. This trick on its own is the main reason why this painting has so far taken me a little over seven hours to plan and paint.

I hope all of you are doing well today! Creating is a great way to settle the nerves!

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Oil Paint Drying and Trying Acrylics Again

By Elissa Rosenthal

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For this week in my artistic journey, I decided to let my oil painting dry a bit more, since some parts I need to fix are still quite wet. Most of the painting is becoming dry however, so I should be able to work on it by next week. To help quicken the drying time I have put the painting in a spare room where I have placed a temperature controlled heater to warm the room up and create some air flow.

As for works I have done this week, I decided to try painting with acrylics again for the fun of it. For this painting I could say it is supposed to have some sort of deeper meaning behind it, how it captures how liberal youth feel tided down, or something of the like. But in truth, this painting was just a bit of fun for me. Put a few abstract heads here, a few lines there, and done.

I enjoy creating art for fun sometimes, not knowing where the painting or drawing is going to go. Every piece of art you create does not have to have some kind of deeper meaning to it. I mean, if someone else puts meaning to this painting, and for some reason they are moved by that meaning, then great! But as a creator of art, I have no obligation to anyone to need a deeper meaning for each creation.

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The Good The Bad and The Oily

By Elissa Rosenthal

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Now, this week in my art journey has had some highs and lows. Let's start with the lows first, and then we can end on a high note.

If you read my last blog post HERE , you'll know I started to work on an old painting of mine. Well, since then I've found out olive oil is NOT the best natural medium to use for oil painting. Currently, some of my painting is dry, however, the white is still as wet as it was the first day I painted it. So, I did a little research in artist forums and found out that olive oil is not considered a drying oil. This probably would have been good to know before painting with it, but we all make mistakes. So, I'm going to let it try to dry for the next few weeks and hopefully the parts with olive oil do eventually dry. If not, I may have to find a way to salvage some of my work on the canvas.

As it so turns out walnut oil is a better alternative, or so say the forums. So, I'm going to be saving up for some, so I can use that instead for the rest of my painting.

Onto the better news! I found out this one really cool guys' YouTube channel. He's an artist, and if people send him art supplies sometimes he makes a video of him using them. You can find his YouTube channel HERE under the username Peter Draws.

I was really inspired by his art videos and his style of drawing. So, I tried my hand at doing a doodle drawing in a more abstract style. It was really fun to do, though time consuming. You really don't understand how long detailed abstract drawings can take until you try to do them yourself.

This doodle took around four hours and was done using Faber-Castell pens. I was using the sizes SB and M. 

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