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Oil on Canvas

This painting is loosely based on one of my previous paintingsJourney that I painted two years ago.  I'm beginning my experiments with using translucent color and thought I would use this composition as a model.  Using translucent color is a new thing for me since it requires the building up of layers.  Each layer changes the next and I feel that there will be much experimentation with this new process.

I first became interested in using translucent color when I read a book by Albert Handell years ago when I was doing pastels.  Albert Handell is a master at painting pastels and oils.  The reason I was reading his books was to further my study in the area of pastel landscapes.  But his oils caught my attention.  They seemed to glow.  I believe it was from viewing his oil paintings that I decided to teach myself how to do oil paintings.  I've been doing oil paintings now for five years and feel I'm at the point where I want to put the time into further experimentation of this technique.  

With anything new, it takes me a while to accomplish my goals.  It seems I'm forever learning and probably will never stop.  In the meantime, I'll be posting what I learn along the way.