Day 9 - 8/7/13

Today, out of sheer laziness and personal comfort, I chose to paint in acrylic.  I blame laziness because I didn't feel like cleaning up the mess of oil paints.  I mention comfort because I didn't feel like breathing the stink of oil paints their related and solvents.  My studio is in my house and is poorly ventilated [aka, not at all ventilated] so the stink is strong.

I *think* I know what John is going to say about the composition of this one so I will say it myself first.  The power strip should be lower on the canvas.  Also - the parts of the power strip are drawn at a conflicting angles and thus looks just plain WRONG.  

Though the absence of stink was nice and the ease of water-based clean-up was pleasurable, I hated painting with acrylics.  I work wet-on-wet with oils and the acrylic paint dries way to quickly to achieve the mixing I enjoy with oils.  I also found the acrylic far more opaque than the oil, making it difficult to layer washes of thin color that allow the wood grain to come through.  

So, tomorrow I will be back at it with the stinky, dirty oil paints.  Perhaps I will open a window, or better yet, take this show on the road to save my lungs a bit... 

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