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Dear visitors,
I have something to tell you today. It will be an inside look in the art methods, techniques, that I use.
When Elena, the VIEW gallery manager, asked me to write about my art techniques, I started to panic.
As much I as I love painting, usually I did not enjoy writing about it. She said that the gallery visitors would love to learn more about the technique the artist uses.
However I will give my best attempt to describe the processes going. Let see how it will go.
I used to paint in the all the possible art and non art materials and also did the huge stain glass projects earlier in Soviet Era in Ukraine.
My first exhibition abroad in Denmark Copenhagen was all in watercolour on paper technique.
Then while living in Prague Czech Republic I completely focused on oil based painting materials.
I used the traditional technique, based on the realism oil painting style, which we have been taught. It was the oil on canvas or card paintings.
Then I started to develop my own technique which is the combination of the pointed etching needles and oil colours on a special durable card. This give me the great texture of scratched drowning deeply or gently filled with an oil paint which is contrasting to the oil glossy and smooth card structure.
I prefer to use the Rembrandt and St Peterborough oils, which are highly transparent and can be layered after they get dry as many times as I need to create special multilayer finish.
The goal is to get the colour layers be translusant and shine through.
For the base before I get to the actual painting, I use a special acrylic ground and number of acrylic texture pastes which I could apply freely by pallet knifes in various ways.
I use a lot of the mix of linen oil with varnish and turpentine oil for dilute the oil paint. This mixture allows the paint not dry so quickly and give time to work with it to adjust when necessary . This give me desired semi covering each other layers of the thin oil paint.
The painting process is never the same, there is always room for improvisation and experiment with non-traditional materials and instruments.
For example some times I use a sand paper or metal wire brushes to create special effects on the surface of a painting. I used various imprinting effects made by a pressure against the painting surface from shapes in wood or plastic, or in broken glass.
Hope this description can provide a a brief look in to the kitchen of artistic processes.
Please feel free to ask any questions.
I would gladly answer on all of them.
Kind regards
Oksana Veber