Ronnie Tucker – Pet, Wildlife & Portrait Artist.

Sunset oil painting and new items in shop

Apr 18, 2010 oil, site

Well, first thing you’ll notice is the new site look. Like it?

For the first time in weeks I did a new oil painting. Although, I suppose this one is more a skyscape than landscape:

Sunset - oil on canvas paper

Also, once this post is up, I’ll be adding more items to the shop. There’s already about a dozen originals and prints to choose from, but I’ll add more shortly.

Tags: art, artist, black, blue, cityscape, orange, painting, reflections, skyscape, sunset, white, yellow

ink drawing complete – finally!

Jan 17, 2010 art, ink

Finally managed to complete the ink drawing I was working on. It seemed like such a good idea at the time, but when you realise that it takes about three hours to cover about one quarter of the A3 page with a 0.1 pen, the novelty quickly wears off! But I managed it. I reckon that it took me about five or six hours in total to finish it. The dark background was done using a 0.8 pen, so that sped things up a bit and the black trees in the background were done with my brush pen, again saving time. But the 0.1 liner pen is almost worn down to the metal, there’s about 0.5mm left of the nib showing.

I’m glad I did it though, and I’d definitely do more. 

Tags: 0.1, 0.8, a3, a4, black, brush, brush pen, ink, liner, paper, pen, white

Oil painting, wet-in-wet, with homemade liquid white

Dec 24, 2009 art, oil

I first came across the wet-in-wet technique (sometimes called wet-on-wet) while watching reruns of Bob Ross’s Joy of Painting show.

Wet-in-wet is where you cover the canvas with a thin spread of ‘liquid white‘ making the canvas slippery and allowing the oil paint to easily slide across the canvas, mix with the liquid white, and be much easier to blend.

Unfortunately, liquid white is a secret recipe and quite expensive to buy, since it’s Bob Ross branded, but… you can make your own liquid white substitute. Here’s how I do it:

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Tags: bob, happy, landscape, liquid, oil, painting, ross, trees, wet, wet-in-wet, wet-on-wet, white