The case against fat over lean

[Raffless]

I paint wet in wet never wet on dry.

Hey Richard. Are you familiar with the artist Malcolm T.Liepke? Now in his technique which is wet in wet he use huge amounts of linseed oil. From beginning his painting. His students are amazed hust how much he adds to the paint. He gets thicker with the highlights. Now his paintings are still standing up after 40 years. And i must admit i’m a big fan of his.

https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-mediums/oil-painting/oil-painting-malcolm-t-liepke-the-emotional-connection-in-figure-paintings/

[Anonymous]

veering off again here.

[Pinguino]

Ahem… The topic was fat over lean.

[WFMartin]

Y’know, this really isn’t brain surgery, or rocket science.

There are so very many anomalies, and exceptions that occur in the simple act of painting that small modifications occur momentarily, at any given time as to throw the concept of “fat over lean” into a bit of chaos, actually.

Case in point: Many times as I’m painting, and working with my my rather “medium” type of painting medium, I will squeeze out some paint on my palette that is greatly laden with oil. Instead of wringing my hands in desperation, and becoming upset with that, I usually just mop up that excess oil with my brush, and mix IT with my paint, instead of using my chosen painting medium.

Sure, that makes that mini-application of paint “extremely fat”, but so what? If one chooses to become overly concerned about violating the fat-over-lean principle, one will hardly every get any painting done!

Does anyone truly believe that such a practice represents a serious “violation” of the fat-over-lean principle? Well, perhaps it does, but I intend to do it anyway, without becoming overly concerned about the practice. Had that excess oil had not separated from its pigment within the tube, it would have been considered “paint”, rather than “oil”, and everything would have been just fine!:lol:

One needs to take that “fat-over-lean” principle with a huge grain of salt.;)

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