JO REIMER: Three Calla Lilies

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Three Calla Lilies - oil painting

Three Calla Lilies
Oil on canvas
15" x 30"

By working on primed, unstretched canvas I can experiment with composition and materials without filling all my storage space with canvas on stretcher frames, though the walls will fill up pretty fast if I keep up my present pace.

1 comment:

Randall David Tipton7:55 AM PDT
The orange geometric shape gives it mystery. As if it's a stage.
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Art Tip: brush cleaning

As I work with acrylic medium for glue or with acrylic paints I stand my brushes in a bucket of water on my work table and give them a soap and water cleanup every day or so. But eventually my brushes get gunky and sometimes I forget to clean them. That's when I clean them with Murphy's Oil Soap. I keep an inch of MOS mixed 1:1 with water in a tall plastic tub (Feta from Costco) and put caked brushes in that solution overnight. By the next day the soap has softened the brush and with a bit of elbow grease I can get the brushes back to useable. This also works for brushes used with oil paint. I gave up using oils but wanted to save those good brushes and Murphy's Oil Soap came to the rescue. Get it at the grocery store.