FINAL VIDEO ON OLD FRAME:
This is the final video of this painting done on the old frame. I moved to Colorado for a short time until September in 2019. I had a storage shed and set this painting outside for a while in the sun.
The epoxide-linseed oil surface bubbled off the ground I made in the top right corner of the sky. I discovered this was due to this surface being oil, and the plaster of paris ground somehow reacting with air, water or moisture from the ground someplace. The addition of heat and light caused the trapped gases in the water soluble plaster layer to balloon out and leave a large bubble in the sky.
I messed around with the edges of the frame and found my epoxide-linseed ground peeled away nicely. I was scared that it would crack or splinter the oil painting layers, but it stayed the same exact size and never cracked or split in the least.
Eventually I was able to peel the whole painting off the ground and cut it out on the edges (which was such a tense moment as it was peeling off, I thought it was going to break, so I think I remember using a rubber spatula.
It took until 09/2019 to figure out how to reapply this substrate back onto the butterfly wood ground.
I had many trials, but eventually decided on vacuum bags and a special epoxide glue made to adhere to both epoxy and flax oil and it worked amazingly well. I placed many books and heavy weights on the painting as it was being vacuumed.
It had zero air bubbles and it dried from tests in about an hour with slow drying epoxy, so I left the painting like this with my vacuum setup overnight and the next morning I found it worked perfectly.
I then could leave this painting in the sun for like 20 minutes on cold mornings and it never bubbled again or had any problems. I once left it face up in the sun for almost an hour when sanding once and it never bubbled and stayed glued.
I was able to continue this work starting again in 09/2019 ultimately finishing it in 03/2020 even though today it no longer exists. With all the problems of this surface, I now have a totally different process from start to finish on paintings.
The one I'm doing now has none of the problems that 'Wisteria' suffered from in its eventual downfall. I started this one directly on the wood and never had a problem of anything peeling or cracking. I still use a modified version of the varnish I used on 'Wisteria' and it is likely just as flexible, but I won't need to test its strength anymore as its staying in place quite well.
The final videos after this one you will see the yellow frame like layer surrounding the painting. This is the pool of insoluble linseed-epoxide glue that reattached the painting to the wood you'll see in future videos.
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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