Did this small 6x6 oil painting today

[LiberalLoner]

I do mostly soft pastels but wanted to show one of my little oil paintings. Thanks to anyone who looks at this! 😀

[niyad]

1. Misty, moody, and comforting.

[LiberalLoner]

49. Thanks! 😍

[Ocelot II]

2. Lovely! Almost looks like pastels.

[LiberalLoner]

50. Thanks! 😍 I think I love Impressionism so much I push all my work towards that style.

[c-rational]

3. Lovely.

[LiberalLoner]

51. Thanks! 😍

[Trueblue1968]

4. i love it. beautiful

[LiberalLoner]

52. Thanks!😍

[femmedem]

5. Just lovely.

[LiberalLoner]

53. Thanks! 😍

[TurboDem]

6. Just beautiful!

[LiberalLoner]

54. Thanks! 😍

[TygrBright]

7. Wow... a landscape I'd like to step into. n/t

[LiberalLoner]

55. Thanks! 😍

[Diamond_Dog]

8. Lovely! Misty and ethereal.

I love your technique. 🙂

[LiberalLoner]

56. Thank you! 😍

[Auggie]

9. Nice!

Love the design and touches of saturated color. Super job IMHO.

[LiberalLoner]

57. Thank you! 😍

[PatSeg]

10. Oh, that is lovely

Very dreamy and romantic.

[LiberalLoner]

58. Thanks! 😍

[Deuxcents]

11. Very nice. You did this just today? You're so talented, for sure. It's gallery worthy!

[LiberalLoner]

59. Thank you so much! 😍 smaller works are easy to do in one day

[Bristlecone]

12. Fantastic. Your art is professional quality

Seriously, great stuff.

[LiberalLoner]

60. Thank you so much! 😍

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Very nice. I love your use of color and lighting.

[LiberalLoner]

61. Thank you so much! 😍

[Worst Username Ever]

14. I can smell that wetland

Water, grasses, and decay. Love it.

[LiberalLoner]

73. Thank you! 😍

[Javaman]

15. That is really nice work👍😀nt

[LiberalLoner]

74. Thank you! 😍

[fierywoman]

16. Absolutely beautiful!

[LiberalLoner]

75. Thank you! 😍

[stage left]

17. I'm glad I looked

So serene

[LiberalLoner]

76. Thank you! 😍

[iluvtennis]

18. Awesome 👏. Thanks for sharing. n/t

[LiberalLoner]

77. Thank you! 😍

[yardwork]

19. Really, really beautiful!

[LiberalLoner]

78. Thank you! 😍

[kentuck]

20. The colors are so soft...

it is lovely. Almost a Van Goghish quality about it.

[LiberalLoner]

79. Thank you! 😍

[MLAA]

21. Beautiful. You have such talent. The water is beautiful.

[LiberalLoner]

80. Thank you! 😍

[ailsagirl]

22. That is fantastic!!!!

[LiberalLoner]

81. Thank you! 😍

[Cronezilla]

23. Oooh!

What a beautiful piece! I can see you are a fan of Turner(as am I)!

[LiberalLoner]

82. Thank you! 😍

[judesedit]

24. It's beautiful. All of your work is outstanding

Wish I could afford to buy some. Seriously.

[LiberalLoner]

83. Thank you! 😍

[3catwoman3]

25. Exquisite.

Especially the moonlight on the water.

[LiberalLoner]

84. Thank you! 😍

[bluboid]

26. beautiful!

[LiberalLoner]

85. Thank you! 😍

[republianmushroom]

27. Nice.

[LiberalLoner]

86. Thank you! 😍

[Rhiannon12866]

28. Wow! Excellent! Thanks so much for sharing...

[LiberalLoner]

87. Thank you! 😍

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

29. I like it!

It evokes a feeling in me of early, pre dawn time

[LiberalLoner]

88. Thank you! 😍

[Joinfortmill]

30. 👍

[LiberalLoner]

89. 😍

[BOSSHOG]

31. Good Lord, what talent

Thanks for brightening my evening. WOW!

[LiberalLoner]

90. Thank you so much! 😍

[bhikkhu]

32. Having been an oil painter myself for the last 35 years - well done

Things like that always look so much easier than they really are. And I don't see a single thing (other than a few pixel-sized pigment gaps) that could be better.

For that style of work, btw, I like a heavier ground than usual, such as Gamblin's oil painting ground, which fills the dips that you tend to get in the canvas weave a little better. A little smoother surface is more ideal if you aren't going heavy on the brushwork.

Framing on small canvasses is key. I like to start with the frame, really, where you can find something small and ornate, and then create a painting to fill the frame.

[WheelWalker]

39. I love practical advice

Do you teach?

[bhikkhu]

71. I taught at our local community college for a couple of years

and I taught painting classes to kids when my ex-wife and I owned an art supply store for awhile. I'm not sure I was a very good teacher, but it was always pretty enjoyable.

[LiberalLoner]

123. Oh how cool!!! Nothing more heavenly than spending time choosing jewels to buy

At a local art store.

I dream of someday seeing the roche pastel store and also Sennelier, in Paris! Won’t happen but I dream.

And classes! Not a week goes by that I don’t look back fondly at art classes I was in as a young person….mostly it was so wonderful to work with other people also working at art. Making art alone in a studio gets very very lonely.

How cool that you did such wonderful things for your community!

[LiberalLoner]

91. Thank you so much! 😍 I will look into that different ground! I think those are actually shiny

Glimmers, reflection of the light off the wet oil paint tbh…there don’t appear to be unpainted spots in real life…I have the hardest time taking photos of my oil paintings without those shiny things…is it just me, is there a trick to taking a photo of a still wet oil painting? I’m so clueless…

[bhikkhu]

96. It is hard to photograph oils

and I'm not an expert on that at all. I think generally the more diffuse light the better, like a north-facing window. I have a reflective umbrella I use with a good full spectrum bulb to get a good color-correcting light on the canvas when painting, and that might work well for photographing them as well, haven't tried yet.

[The Butler]

33. Title

Marshland Moon . What did you name it Liberal Loner?

[WheelWalker]

41. I think of Ukraine at war when I see it.

There is a dark authenticity about it, on more than one level.

[LiberalLoner]

92. Oh that sounds like such a great title! I hadn't even thought yet about a name for it. 😍

[LoisB]

34. Beautiful.

[LiberalLoner]

93. Thank you! 😍

[CANADIANBEAVER69]

35. love love love it. n/t

[LiberalLoner]

94. Thank you! 😍

[icymist]

36. Oh! That's very nice.

I like.

[LiberalLoner]

95. Thank you! 😍

[lucca18]

37. What a really beautiful painting!

💕😍

Please post more of your paintings!

[LiberalLoner]

100. Thank you! 😍

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

38. Impressive!!

[LiberalLoner]

101. Thank you! 😍

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

124. YW... pun intended BTW!!

[AllaN01Bear]

40. wow.

[LiberalLoner]

102. Thanks! 😍

[pandr32]

42. Very nice!

It seems like it should be bigger, though. It could easily be a focal painting. Well done!

[LiberalLoner]

103. Thank you! 😍 Maybe I can use a large canvas and try to paint a larger version.

[bee_peaceful]

43. Charming

[LiberalLoner]

104. Thanks! 😍

[livetohike]

44. Beautiful! I want to put the canoe in the water

and drift away. Thank you for this moment of peace .

[LiberalLoner]

105. Thanks! 😍

[3auld6phart]

45. Beautiful

Love it. My daughter foes watercolours., landscapes , mostly. Don’t see h h of her art,as she lives in England. As an RN for the NHS.

[LiberalLoner]

106. Thank you! 😍 watercolors are so hard...I am impressed!

[MOMFUDSKI]

46. Very nice.

So much fun to created. Keep ‘‘em coming

[LiberalLoner]

107. Thank you! 😍

[Texin]

47. It's lovely. I've got several similar landscapes in my house.

[LiberalLoner]

108. Thank you! 😍 Maybe some day people will put my paintings on their walls.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

48. Very nice

That would be in league with the great impressionists.

[LiberalLoner]

109. Wow, thank you so much! 😍

[MontanaMama]

62. Peace on a canvas.

So lovely.

[LiberalLoner]

110. Thank you so much! 😍

[kooth]

63. Very Nice!

That is so beautiful! Some day, I'm going to try to learn how to paint like this!

[LiberalLoner]

111. Thank you! 😍 I am sure you will paint much better ones.

[CaptainTruth]

64. Nice!

[LiberalLoner]

112. Thanks! 😍

[littlemissmartypants]

65. Love this and you, LL. Thanks for sharing and being a friend. ❤️

[LiberalLoner]

113. Thank you very much, love you too, thanks for being my friend 😍

[calimary]

66. REALLY nice, LiberalLoner!

A fleeting moment of quiet contemplation you captured and made permanent.

A gift to anybody feeling stressed!

[LiberalLoner]

114. Thank you so much! 😍 my works tend to be about solitude as much as anything I think.

[whathehell]

67. Wow..Beautiful!

Seriously..I'm not an art critic,but I love what you've done here!.

[LiberalLoner]

115. Thank you so much! 😍

[whathehell]

122. You're very welcome, Liberal Loner.

[Jarqui]

68. Haven't painted for quite some time.

Hope to change that.
Got watercolors supplies ... waiting for me to get going ...
Haven't done any oil painting in decades.

As someone who has some appreciation for what you just accomplished, it is so lovely that it is uplifting.

Thanks for sharing.

[LiberalLoner]

116. Thank you so much! 😍 I hope you resume your artistic journey soon!

[Tucker08087]

69. Beautiful!

I love your use of light! You are so talented!

[LiberalLoner]

117. Thank you! 😍

[housecat]

70. Mesmerizing. Do more like this! Have a little show!

[LiberalLoner]

118. Thank you! 😍

[JudyM]

97. Ooh!

Another gorgeous work of art. I can feel the scene as if I walked right into it. SO good.

[LiberalLoner]

119. Thank you so much! 😍

[Goddessartist]

98. Gorgeous and mystical!

[LiberalLoner]

120. Thank you! 😍

[dai13sy]

99. Beautiful

It's soft and it surrounds you like a hug. It's so beautiful. Thank you.

[LiberalLoner]

121. Thank you! 😍

[LiberalLoner]

125. Well, biopsies on both breasts will be done, both have suspicious areas.

My intuition was telling me. Don’t know why I know certain things I have no reason to know, but sometimes in life that’s how it went for me, that magic intuition.

[LiberalLoner]

126. One breast has a group of microcalcifications suspicious of malignancy and the other

Breast has two masses with edges that make the masses suspicious.

It’s unusual to have cancer in both breasts at the same time. I always was different.

I’ve been having night sweats and I’m been over menopause close to ten years. Looks like it’s spread, maybe, is what I am thinking. Well. let’s see what comes next. I really hate pain, though.

[GPV]

127. Gorgeous!

[LiberalLoner]

128. Thank you so much! ❤️