This is the video series for an oil painting 'Wisteria' I did from 2016-2020. The painting was destroyed in 2021 due to a number of reasons, but mainly: the painting's faulty experimental linseed-epoxide substrait, Covid-19 crushing lockdowns, extreme poverty, family attacks and ongoing US government (Big Tech + Big Media) censorship of me and my 30 years of artwork.
Its not ideal to not be able to show this piece, but I still gained the knowledge of how to do it and invented several useful oil painting mediums & varnishes used in its creation which never yellowed and still cannot be bought anywhere.
I am posting these videos for posterity and for people that are interested in seeing an oil painting created from start to finish in the Baroque style evolved for the 21st century. I also must have deleted some of the initial videos when I did the quick underpainting, but what still exists, I give to you.
I hope this can be an educational experience as no gallery will show any of my controversial art even today.
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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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It is my hope that nations and society everywhere will one day respect people's informed consent when it comes to medicines or vaccination. There's a lot of people no longer with us because we got 2020-2023 wrong.
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I was very suprised this stuff actually worked as I developed it when I was painting a huge golden sculpture back in 2014. The art store products I used then yellowed the sky, so I messed around with the mediums and made an oil that was extremely clear for colors like blue and violet. Its sad 'Wisteria' is not able to be seen as it was destroyed 5 years ago, but it helped to develop a technique of using this stuff. I don't mean to hate on Blockx Amber Painting Solution, as its still very good, and Blockx paints along with my own handmade lead paint is what I use as paints. The Blockx Aureolin, Viridian and Cobalt Blues and Violets are better paints than anyone makes for way over a hundred years. To answer your question, the hardest part of Wisteria was when I set it outside one day in 2018 and the epoxide-oil ground started to bubble away from the ground in the heat of the sun. I had to spend about 6 months having to figure out how to reattach this flexible ground that I peeled away from the original ground back onto a piece of wood. I ended up using this slow drying epoxide and oil mixture and using a series of vaccum bags and weights to make sure that it stuck to the wood. It was successful and I never had another problem with it peeling away and there were also no bubbles. The painting was the easy part, that's what I've been doing since the late 1990's, painting and drawing stuff. As well as these videos on here, I want to offer prints and products for some of my other abstract drawings and gouache paintings that still survived all that time, so check out my site in the next few weeks and hopefully they'll be new stuff. Plus I'm finishing up the newest painting hopefully to be done in the next few months. Its much darker and foreboding than this one and I didn't record it at all as I don't have a set up to simulcast like I used to back when this was made.