You're welcome Crystal :)

That sounds lovely, I hope you share it with us.

What a delightful treat! Both newly finished paintings are lovely!

"Inner Child" is colorful and vibrant.
The facial expression of your "Curvy Lady" reminds me of Betty Boop.

The way you use light and shadow to create shape and depth is really good. I admire your talent.

Thank you, Technovative!
I love playing with light & shadow, hihi.

whoo hoo more new crystal art

Hihi, yes! The next is likely to be a landscape. Possibly with a small cottage in it.

A work in progress :) I'll try get a better piccie of the moon tomorrow. It's light yellow and you can see some slightly darker craters.
Bear in mind it's not finished!

I love what you've done so far Crystal, can't wait to see it once it's finished

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What sizes are these pics and what brand of oils you use I used Windsor and newton my self and a good tip is to use lighter fluid to thin them down as it drys a lot faster.

nice. i would like to be able to body paint.

I stopped working with terps some 10 years ago. Not healthy and especially a problem during winter as I always paint in the living room. Then you can't ventilate. But it's very unhealthy regardless. And cleaning brushes is a nightmare, having to store all the cleansing terps separately and taking it away for proper disposal.
So I changed to water soluble oils.
I know I should not rinse brushes still in the kitchen, but yeah...
It took getting used to, things I could do with terps I cannot really do anymore as the viscosity is so different.
Big advantage is that it's dry in 1-2 weeks. As in dry.


Oh, I do at times use acrylics these days. Depends on the subject. I have not posted any of those, unless I posted the horses.
But I started a new range which includes functional nudity. These boards don't even allow posting a Tarot card with breasts exposed so I cannot post those paintings either.
A shame as some are brilliant.

Sizes... these days I go for 60 x 50, in the past often 50 x 40. But I have done some larger, some smaller too.
But now only do 60 x 50.

I sit on the bed painting with the bottle of white spirit in between my legs and just take a break and go outside for a smoke but yeah lighter fluid makes it dry faster and I have started using iridescent medium as a base on one of the flowers I did then painted the oils over the top so it looks plain till the light hits it and it's so weird. I hasn't done anything for a while but I was just looking at starting doing some more frogs but one of the mates always said I will go mad doing it cause I need to get it perfect or I'm not happy. I sometimes use gouache I like that if I don't want to mess with thinners but I use a 3 and a 4 zero brush most of the time and it doesn't matter how big I'm goin I always seem to use them.

Finally done some painting again!
I didn't feel like it for a long time, plus I couldn't because of vertigo problems.
Now I felt truly inspired again so I went for it. Happy with the work I've done: the grass and mist.
Of course it isn't done yet, but I can now start with the good part

Where do we see some?

This one is absolutely fantastic

Thank you, Cyrax. It was fun doing something entirely different.

On here? Hihi.
One is in the US somewhere, another is hanging in a private pub from an acquaintance, 3 at my daughter's.
I got a lot in my own home, the rest is upstairs.
I was working on a series in acrylics and had planned to find a gallery for those. None of these are on here as there's nudity in 'em and the posts would be removed.

Love the moon, I feel like I’m standing outside viewing it!
Can’t wait to see where you take this one.

Thank you, I love hearing that!
I hope to soon paint again, maybe tomorrow :)

I only see a few ?