Trying to learn oil painting, using water mixable. Surgery date 16 October to remove breast cancer.

[LiberalLoner]

50. Oh my goodness I am sorry you had this twice, but glad you beat it and are still here,

I hope and pray it never comes back and you live a very very long and very very happy life from now on!

That made me laugh, yeah, my tits are trying to kill me 🤣🤣🤣

I think I have defective genes, all the women in both sides of my family got cancer, usually breast cancer. But all of them beat the breast cancer so I believe I will, too!

Thank you so much for your kind encouragement and well wishes! ❤️❤️❤️

Oh about oil painting…I’ve discovered water mixable oil paints recently and what a game changer it is! No solvents! And when I want to use a different color, no lengthy hassle trying to clean my brush. Just swish in water, dab on paper towel so the brush isn’t too wet, and grab that next color!

So far I’ve been painting over old canvases I had lying around from when I tried oils before and gave up due to solvents making me feel sick.

But I think I will buy new canvas panels as they are pretty affordable, at least in the smaller sizes. I can slap another coat of gesso on those and they will be good to paint on.

Or I can buy oil painting paper, which is affordable too.

Oh and I read on one artist website, I put the link down somewhere in all these replies, where an artist suggested buying Manila folders, a hundred at a time, super cheap, cut them in half and then coat with shellac or gesso or PVA glue and you have two hundred surfaces to paint on for practice!

I thought that was pretty clever!

But I’m a real believer in these water mixable oil paints, if a friend came to me and wanted to start oil painting, I’d say, buy oil mixable paints.

Thank you again so much!

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