Your Wisteria project sounds incredibly ambitious, especially the way you spent years on it and even developed your own non-yellowing mediums and varnishes along the way. I also appreciated that you’re sharing the process for posterity, since an oil painting series that spans 2016–2020 and is described as Baroque style evolved for the 21st century is really something people can learn from. If you keep posting more of your work here, hivestats.io could be handy for watching your account growth and rewards, and InLeo Threads is a good place to share those behind-the-scenes art updates with more people. What part of the painting process for Wisteria was the most challenging for you to capture on video?
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Pretty much all of it was challenging, before this I did a bunch of oil paintings with the Blockx mediums and oil paints. I just found the Blockx Amber Painting Solution very yellowing and dark, so I made my own painting varnish that is very thick and reddish colored. I've tested it since then and it works splendidly.
I also invented ways to clarify linseed and walnut oils and I'm presently working on a painting of a dead rat in a mousetrap (even more difficult than this one!) that I hope to try out my new final varnish on. (Painting varnish you mix with your paint when you work, final varnish is applied as a protective layer after the painting is completed).
I've tried all kinds of varnishes and mediums sold in the art stores since the 1990's and the ones I make beat everything out there if the correct processes are used. The best test of this is when I go to sand a layer after painting it with my mediums and varnishes. With Blockx it sands quite easily with ground pumice stone, but with mine it barely scratches the surface. I like this because it gives me the ability to just remove the oil layer and leave the areas I've painted underneath in place.
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