Artist Evaluation of Gamblin Oil Portray Floor

Gamblin Oil Portray Floor makes a powerful, brilliant, non-absorbent basis for oil work. The bottom substances of the bottom makes canvas and linen stiffer than acrylic gesso and extra versatile than conventional oil primers. On this Artist Evaluation of the Month, Georgie Rey explains why she likes the expertise of priming her personal birch plywood boards for oil portray and the way just a little primer goes a good distance.

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Artist Evaluation of Gamblin Oil Portray Floor

by Georgie Rey

Priming my boards is a crucial a part of the method for me. It makes me undergo my outdated work and paint over the unsuccessful ones. It additionally will get me into my studio (all of us produce other issues to take care of) as I do know I’ve simply ‘yet one more coat of primer’ to placed on the panels. As soon as I’m in my studio and priming my boards I’ve unlocked the ‘block’ and I typically choose up the comb and begin portray.

 

 

I exploit this to prime my birch panels. First I prime with rabbit pores and skin glue then the oil primer. It permits the paintbrush to slip easily across the canvas, I desire it to gesso the place the comb doesn’t slide so effectively.

 

 

I like to make use of Gamblin Oil Portray Floor for priming my plywood panels. I purchase 3 mm birch plywood sheets, in sizes A5 and A4 which I exploit for making small oil research en plein air. First, I prime them with 2-3 coats of rabbit pores and skin glue: again, entrance, and edges. I purchase the crystals and use 1:13 water, soak them in a single day, then warmth in a double boiler. It might then be stored within the fridge. As soon as dry, I apply two skinny layers of Gamblin White Oil Portray Floor.

 

 

The oil primer permits the paintbrush to run easily throughout the panel when utilizing a small brush and skinny paint. I discover gesso is chalky and I’ve problem drawing my traces in oil paint onto it.

 

 

My favorite facet of the product is the toughness of the oil primer and the way in which it displays the sunshine again by the skinny darkish washes. With oil portray, the darks must be skinny and clear. Over time, the oil paint will grow to be extra clear and the white of the primer acts as a mirror and displays the sunshine again. I like to color on a white floor and sometimes bits of the white floor are left displaying. This provides to the sketchy, contemporary feeling of the work.

 

 

I just like the expertise of constructing my very own panels as a result of my paintings is my very own creation from begin to end. One small pot of paint goes a good distance and lasts many months. I’ve simply coated 70 small A5 boards and 12 A4 boards with two coats of thinned oil primer, and there’s nonetheless some left within the 473 ml tin.

 

 

About Georgie Rey

I paint outside, plein air, at all times from life, making small research after which bigger, extra summary items within the studio. It’s all about having fun with being outside and the pleasure it brings after we connect with the land. I paint shortly and spontaneously and revel in at all times studying and enhancing my method. My work are emotional responses to the panorama. I like strolling on the South Downs the place I discover fascinating rhythmic views with huge hills and deep valleys. I like to return to the identical place, get to comprehend it for a 12 months or extra, and make research in numerous mediums. When portray, I faucet into the unconscious and paint intuitively. We expertise transcendence after we paint, which is why we do it, it makes us really feel good!

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