Some #art thoughts I've been struggling with:
1. I'm learning to do oil painting. I have a lot of cultural baggage about painting, from outside. Oils as high culture, mastery of art, pure fancy creation.
2. I'm deep in a math art place, variations on Menger sponges and related ideas. Stark geometric objects, fine hard lines and proportions.
The two fit together weird; I feel like my subject is fighting my medium, and yet feel like using tools (stencils etc) to mitigate that is "cheating".
@joshmillard this is super interesting to me! I have v novice training in paint materials - the selling point on oils is how long they take to dry and so how much time you have to mix and spread them, usually...I'm curious if maybe you could experiment with very light application/dry sponging, possibly even do color mixing that way?
@courtney Yeah, there's some things I haven't tried yet. I *have* played with a few drying mediums that cut drying time way down (which for oils means "just 1-2 days!", heh).
I have made little (not no) use of oils' slow drying nature so far, so it might just be literally the wrong medium for my math work; trying acrylics at some point is on the docket, at least to see how they feel.
On the other hand, as just a substance I am *enjoying* oils so far, so complicated feelings!