Water soluble oils, hum???

Yep, here there are.

Cobra and Holbein's Duo Water Soluble Oils

Something I never wanted to do, but it's become a necessity.

In October, I am teaching a 2-day workshop for the LLL Center in Upper Arlington. The workshop was advertised as oils, water soluble oils and acrylics. I heard last week that all the people who have signed up so far use either acrylic or oils. So . . .  a bit of panic set in!

Lucky for me, I watch Project Runway,
and this is my "Make it Work" moment.

Thank you Tim Gunn!

Paint is paint, right. NOT SO. I use a 6-color limited palette, and most of what I do is based on the properties of those colors: pure pigment, high tinting power, 3 opaque and 3 transparent,  a warm and a cool of the primaries + white.

Let the learning curve begin.

I am thinking of one of my beginning oil students
after six hours of painting time.

"I don't think I'll ever get this."

she says sadly as she heads for the door at the end of the night.

"How many hours of your life have you been painting in oils?"

says I, just as she reaches the door.

"Six hours."

I asked her to consider this:

Monet, in his 80's, and

after a lifetime of painting said, 

"I'm only just beginning to see."