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- Before yesterday’s painting session
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- Third pass, only one more to go.
The last pass will be pretty quick. There are only a few dark areas that I want to emphasize even more. They will be in purple instead of the mars red I’ve been using so far. Then we wait. The paint has a dryer in it, so hopefully in less than two weeks I’ll be able to varnish it. Framing will happen in a snap since I do it myself. Don’t have to send it out and wait. So it’s looking really good at this point to find this painting on my display wall at the For the Love of Art Fair in South Bend, Indiana in early March!
Alli Farkas Artist Adventures 
Looking at both images, I get the sensation of adjusting my “lens” for a clearer picture! Really going well, Alli!
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I just put the last layer on–better get your sunglasses out!
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Can’t wait to see that purple… my fav color! I love this! Would be so fun to see a collage of pics of all the sky pads.
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Not exactly a collage, but you can see them all together (although they’re in square boxes) here: http://www.allifarkas.com/landscapes/oil-paintings
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Thanks, Alli. I will check them out!
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It amazes me how you manage to get these effects with the paint! Great job!
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Thanks! The process isn’t really amazing once you know what it is. I use transparent oils (mostly Phthalo blue and green, dioxazine purple, indian yellow, mars red and black, and quinacridone magenta). They are all thinned a lot with a glossy medium. If I need a color that isn’t transparent, such as cad red or yellow ochre, or even white, I thin it with the medium until it becomes transparent. Once these colors are place over one another in thin glazes they begin to shimmer and in time you can see several layers underneath.
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This reply got away from me before I finished LOL! The above process is for the foreground lily pads. For the background, paint diluted with plain old paint thinner is poured on the canvas and after sort of manipulating it in the direction I think it should go by tilting the canvas around, it’s allowed to wander wherever it wants to while drying.
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It probably sounds like another day at the office for you, but for me it seems like a long and tricky process! I love the results!
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It’s only tricky if you demand perfection. If you can “go with the flow” and work with what the paint gives you it’s actually fun.
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That makes a lot of sense!
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