Traveling Light by Bruce Bingham

I started off the New Year with a trip to Sedona, AZ. It was my first visit to the area and I was amazed by the scenery. It was a time to relax with family but I still painted five little studies. I wanted to travel light so I took a limited palette of water soluble oils for easy clean up.

Sedona Red

by Bruce Bingham

oil 6 x8

$175

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It's true they aren't as buttery and smooth as regular oil paints but I found that using a medium, fast drying linseed oil, intended for them made them very workable. IMHO it's best to just load your brush and paint pretty thickly from the beginning, working a little medium into your pile of paint to find the consistency you like.

Sedona Yellow

by Bruce Bingham

oil 6x8

$175

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The colors don't have the transparency of some traditional oil colors and if you're like me and often use transparents first you'll miss that. And of course glazing is out. But who glazes in plein air anyway? So what you might miss is made up by extra suitcase space sans your turp container and solvents and all the extra time you save with the easy non toxic clean up.

Great way to travel light.

Thanks for following along!

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