This week the Iris went from this:
… to this.
Ugh. And it looks worse. It’s important to remember it’s getting another wash of black (or dark blue, not sure) over the background. But it looks like I did nothing after working on it over an hour. And I tell you that right hand side is like the shroud of Turin. That’s not what I painted. It’s like the paint got sucked in to the canvas. Too much oil, I surmise.
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A medium where the oil balance can make it vanish or be varnish: yikes.
That said, the irises themselves look nice.
KC – I should have seen it coming. The glaze is paint with extra oil, and Just as extra water would de-stabilize a watercolor painting, extra oil would do that to an oil painting. Then I did too much brushing and lifted the first layer of paint up into the brushes. Unlike watercolor, it’s easy to fix. I hope.