From Linda Kunsman--Her First Oil/Cold Wax Piece

Linda Kunsman, stellar artist and experimenter, let me know she just completed her first oil and cold wax painting after reading my new book!

Lavender Fields  Oil/CW on Board  6" x 6"

                                                 

On her blog, Linda shows us two details of the heavy texture she used.

                                                   

Thank you, Linda,for sharing your work and process!! Find your way to Linda's blog for more inspiration!

Working on Terra Skin Stone Paper

Peñasco     Oil/Cold Wax on Stone Paper 10.5 x 7.5

 

If you've seen my new book or my blogs, you know that I create some cold wax and oil work on Arches Oil Paper and Terra Skin Stone Paper. Both kinds of paper have excellent qualities. I find the stone paper a bit trickier but love its smooth surface and how quickly pieces on stone paper dry compared to work on panel. A reader recently asked me about a problem with the stone paper buckling. This can happen and so we need to keep the layers of oil and cw few and thin. Even so, the piece above that I did a couple of days ago buckled quite a lot. Now that it has almost dried, the buckling is almost gone. Whew! I'm going to experiment with placing several big heavy books on it when it is completely dry to see if that helps make the piece buckle-free.

My reader was working on a large piece of stone paper while mine is quite small. I'm going to test out large and small pieces and see what happens. I'll let you know. I want to keep both kinds of delicious paper open as options!