That was no typo in the title of this post. I did not mean It’s Cryin’ Time Again…

I’ve completed all the paintings for my April exhibition at Yumart and now it’s dryin’ time. Those of you who know my paintings know I use plenty of paint so I gave myself a deadline of the end of February to finish painting. Now the last of them has over a month for the oil paint to dry. That should be plenty of time to dry the surface, although in some of the thicker impasto areas, it will take a lot longer for them to thoroughly dry right through.

No Regrets 2015

Some painters have no patience for the slow drying time of oil paints and either take measures to speed the drying or work with quick-drying media like acrylics. There have been times when I’ve worked with acrylics but these days I’ve been painting exclusively with oils.

I try to take advantage of the drying time. I work in sessions and during each session I work wet in wet but I usually take several days between bouts of painting so at the beginning of each session I’m working on a more or less dry surface. I also let paint dry on my palette because at different stages in the drying process that paint acts differently when I paint with it. I pay a lot of attention to surface quality, character and texture in my paintings.