Getting Messy with Oils

Can oil painting smell sweet with Painter IX’s Oils and Artists’ Oils? By Jonny Duddle.

In part two of this series I’m going to concentrate on Painter IX’s Oil variants. I’m hoping to work exclusively with the Oils and Artists’ Oils. One of the features that most excited me when I produced the first Chimpski illustration last month, was the way in which Painter’s brushes blend and interact with the canvas and its existing colours. In the past, I’ve experimented with Painter’s Oils and have found them entertaining, if a little unwieldy. So I’m setting myself the challenge of working exclusively in virtual Oils. I’m hoping that by doing this on my piece I can achieve a traditional painted look.

I’m sticking with Chimpski for all three images in this series and want to produce illustrations that run chronologically. In the first workshop I produced a stamp design inspired by Soviet propaganda art. In this workshop I’m going to look at Chimpski’s arrival on the moon. A little known event in the space race, perhaps, but a giant leap for ape kind! It’s an arrival that doesn’t go to wholly to plan and there’ll be a flying chimp and a big explosion. I’ve opted for an explosion because I think it’ll be great way of putting the interaction of Painter’s Oils with the canvas to the test.

But the main point of this series is to learn a new package, have fun and grow as an artist. And hopefully encourage a few other artists to find some time to try out Painter IX and its realistic oil paint features too.