Painting Fast and Furious

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Over the last many weeks, during "Swimming-in-Paint", I worked from a Centurion Oil primed painting pad.

The change from my norm was basically to share ideas quicker with the team. Using a clean glass palette with a small razor blade tool I'm able to show techniques like  "shovel up paint" onto my painting surface more quickly. Keeping my brush clean with a palette knife - collecting paint into a "single working mud pile" continually adjusting it with other colours....not wasting paint or medium or losing a beat to an end goal........a sign off!

Working "fast and furious" is refreshingly liberating and produces expression in the moment.......perhaps the best and most truthful expression of all.

I thought it might be fun to share some fast paced 12x12's with you...... perhaps they will encourage this simple practice of doing quick renderings to elevate paint quality, perfect stronger compositions, painting shapes as opposed to objects and exploring lost and found edges with lots of paint so the composition emerges naturally. Regardless how or what you paint it always deserves a proper painting surface for the intent.

a great oil painting surface

 + cool tools

 + a reference or not

+ some oil colour

 + some time

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A few might even end up on a wall because these real linen canvas oil painting pads can also be quickly stretched and popped into a frame.

A small touch of colour and a scale change effectively allow the eye to rest and then lead on.