Working with different mediums

by Cheryl McClure of Cheryl McClure

Working with oil and cold wax medium is that it is very easy to just keep getting a whole different painting each and every time you work on it.

As some of you know, I went to a workshop with a wonderful artist… Rebecca Crowell in Dallas earlier in the month. Before I left I started the last painting…… very large one, too, so I had to complete it before I got back to working with the panels and oil paintings that I started at that workshop.

Today I have finally been back at work on these ‘starts’… or I call them that. Who knows, the starts may look better by the time I get through than the finished paintings. One thing about working with oil and cold wax medium is that it is very easy to just keep getting a whole different painting each and every time you work on it. That is if you are not using brushes but are using squeegees and brayers. Not that you cannot use a brush, but I am trying to use the paint in a thinner application to build up layers and also hopefully dry a little faster. In fact, over time I probably will use a brush as I was itching to get one out to do some negative painting on these two that I worked on today. BUT, I think I will still do the preliminary work with the squeegees and brayers to keep it drying faster until I know where I am going with the painting.

These pieces are 20 x 20 x 2 inch wood panels I bought from a local canvas shop…..great people, making a wonderful product, at a good price as well as made in the USA….. Sunbelt Manufacturing in Longview, TX.

Cheryl McClure - Working with different mediums: When I left the workshop, one piece looked like this.

This is what it looked like after I worked on it a little more today. I kept turning it around…and it looks possibly more contemporary turned in the opposite direction but for some reason I like it this way, at least at this stage. This could be an intermediate stage or the final one. Who knows right now? I need to keep looking more.

Cheryl McClure - Working with different mediums: Intermediate or final version.

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I live and work in rural north eastern Texas. Painting seriously for more than thirty years, I paint from my heart with a passion for abstraction, color and surface quality. My work has been shown through out the USA and occasionally in Europe. You may view my work in person at galleries across the United States.