scene five
Now I’m refining the shapes of horses and riders and
I always use Winsor and newton ‘Drying Linseed Oil’ as a mixing
have just started to sketch in, still using a rigger brush, the
medium. I add a tiny bit of ‘turps’ to it in my oil and turps pots,
small foreground snow covered tree to the right of centre,
(oil on the left with that little bit of turps mixed in, and pure turps
and also the snow covered fence in front of the trees on
on the right). I find the ‘Drying Linseed oil’ helps with the drying
process, usually drying off the day’s work overnight, so I can get
the left. Each time I use a different colour with the rigger brush,
on with working on a relatively dry canvas the next day.
I dip it in spirits of turpentine and wash it out completely, drying
it on a bit of kitchen roll before starting on the new colour. some
people use white spirit to clean brushes, but it’s a very poor
substitute for ‘turps’.
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