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For my final inquiry project this year, I’ve decided to do canvas painting. During my research, I found that there are many different types of canvas painting, and decided to do a water-colour canvas painting. However, as I went to buy the supplies, I found out that when you do water-colour panting on canvas, the watercolour paint floats on top of the canvas and we have to wait for it to dry. So the person at the shop recommended using water-miscible paint which seemed very interesting. So instead of doing a water-colour painting on canvas, I decided to use water-miscible paint instead.
Step 1. Research
Water Miscible Oil Painting
My first step for my inquiry was to do research. I’ve done a lot of research about water-colour painting on canvas, but since I’ve changed the topic, I researched again about water-miscible oil painting. Water Miscible oil is also known as ‘water soluble’ or ‘water mixable’. Unlike oil paint, it avoids using chemicals such as turpentine, whose fumes may be harmful. It can be painted using soft brushes, but it works better with rough brushes. Water-miscible oil are real oils and aren’t water based, but they can be thinned using water. They must dry through oxidation, observing oxygen through the air. Depending on the thickness of the paint, the oils retain their elasticity and workability for up to 48 hours.
I found some examples of water-miscible oil paintings online, to see how it turns out. As I looked at examples of water miscible oil paintings, I found that unlike oil paintings, they aren’t as glossy and oily.
Step. 2 Gather Supplies
My second step was to gather or buy supplies.
-water-mixable oil paint
-brushes (mostly rough brushes) & water
-wood to stick the canvas cloth onto
-something to mix/spread the paint onto like a palette (although I used a paper plate)
-Canvas cloth (unlike wooden canvases, canvas clothes are easy to use, because it’s possible to cut them into any size or shape you want it to be)
-paper towel/tissue
-water (in a cup)
So these are my supplies I used:
Step.3 Find Pictures/Paintings to paint:
Step.4 Begin Painting!!!
My First Canvas Painting (Flower)
My First Canvas Painting was a painting of a flower, as I was looking rhrough examples of water-mixable paintings, I saw many paintings of flower and also thought that it was common and simple to paint. So I chose to paint a flower for my first canvas painting.
What I realized…
While I did my first canvas painting, I realized that there weren’t many colour choices. It is possible to mix colours just like any other kinds of paints, but it was hard to get the exact colours I wanted as a final result. I also realized that it is hard to paint with soft brushes, because soft brushes easily slipped on the canvas, making it hard to paint. It was easy to spread the paint with water on the canvas, and the paint did not run out as quickly as other kinds of paints, which was very useful. Finally, paints does not come off the canvas cloth like acrylic or water-colour paints Instead, the different colour paints are easily mixable on the canvas, and different colour paints can go over each other as another layer very easily.
Second Canvas Painting (Red Panda)
Painting Process:
Final result!!!
What I Realized…
After my second canvas painting, I realized that it is ver hard to paint little details, possibly because I didn’t have the right kind or sized brushes for it, but also because the paint mixed with each other very easily. Also, I’ve realized that water makes the paint thinner and lighter, the more water with paint, the thinner and lighter it became, which made it easier for me to paint with more water mixed in the paints.
Step 2 Gather Supplies
-Water-mixable oil paint
-brushes (mostly rough brushes)
-wood to stick the canvas cloth onto
-Canvas cloth (unlike wooden canvases, it’s possible to cut them into any size or shape you want)
-something to mix/spread the paint onto like a palette, although I used a paper plate
-paper towel/tissue
-water in a cup
Step 3 Find pictures/paintings to paint
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