{"id":22,"date":"2010-06-22T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T23:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2010-07-12T22:55:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T05:55:14","slug":"my-first-oil-painting-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/my-first-oil-painting-class\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Oil Painting Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought painting comes naturally to me, but, today, I proved myself a little wrong. There is a lot to learn about oil painting. The kind of brushes to be used, the method\u00a0 to clean the brushes and also a special oil to make the brush strokes smooth. Mainly the oil that is to be used is Linseed Oil. There is a lot that I found at the local stores, but the one which seems most recommended is the<strong> Refined Linseed Oil<\/strong>. Brushes can be cleaned using <strong>Turpentine Oil<\/strong>. The oil paints available at the local hobby stores were expensive for me , so I managed to grab a set of 12 20 ml tubes from India. Well! the price wasn&#8217;t at all cheap there either, but, the dollar and the rupee differences make it easier for folks like me.<\/p>\n<p>There is something more that I have learned, <strong>disposable paper pallets<\/strong>. They are real cool! My friend from whom I was learning actually saves these pallets in a box and keeps them in the fridge for later use&#8230;I hope her two little boys won&#8217;t think of those as something to eat! Another new terminology in my dictionary of Art is <strong>Gesso<\/strong> which is like a primer coat.\u00a0 It can be either colorless or white. Although I have not used it for my painting, but my friend told me that this is used to give a better texture to the painting&#8230;it probably makes the canvas smoother. So, gesso should be applied first with a brush on the canvas. It takes 3 -4 hours to dry.<\/p>\n<p>The painting that I am making is of a scenery that I found in the Carmel Gallery Guide. I am using a 11 x 14 inches canvas&#8230;I know its rather small, but its a very comfortable size for a beginner like me. I hope to finish my painting soon. If it turns out well, I&#8217;ll think of\u00a0 a nice spot on the wall to hang it.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought painting comes naturally to me, but, today, I proved myself a little wrong. There is a lot to learn about oil painting. The kind of brushes to be used, the method\u00a0 to clean the brushes and also a special oil to make the brush strokes smooth. Mainly the oil that is to be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[21,23,22,25,24],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-carmel-gallery-guide","tag-disposable-paper-pallets","tag-gesso","tag-refined-linseed-oil","tag-turpentine-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnaliandushnish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}