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Coming in for a Kiss

"Coming in for a Kiss," 5" x 7", commissioned dog portrait of an Italian Greyhound, acrylic on canvasboard. Inquiries may always come to me.

Just as I was setting my palette up for today's painting session, the Fed X man brought me a box from Dick Blick, a box containing my order of Golden Open Acrylics. Open acrylics are a new type of acrylic paints that take longer to dry (similar to oil paints) yet still retain the ease of solvent free cleanup typical to acrylics.

This is my first piece using the Open Acrylics, but so far I'm really liking them. I was able to do some blending and mixing on the canvasboard that I couldn't do easily prior. I could lay marks down and return to that area an hour later and still push/pull the paint. The hardest thing (for me) was waiting a couple hours after finishing the painting, allowing it to dry enough so that I could scan it. With retrospect, that really isn't so hard.

I think I'm going to like these. A lot.

Thanks, as always, for looking at - and sharing - my artwork with your friends and family.
Kim
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  1. Unknown3:59 AM

    These new paints have not hindered any of your recreated emotions from coming through the canvas. I like this...a lot :)

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  2. Bobbie's Blog Spot6:51 AM

    Kim,
    I love your work!
    Bobbie Deuell

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