Painting Materials
By Joseph Weinzettle
My painting medium is stand oil and turpentine (below). Stand oil is thick and slow drying. I found its qualities suited for expressing Florida humid climate in landscape paintings.
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I mix medium into a smaller portable containers for working en plein air. I carry a selection of brushes, mostly bristle, some synthetic or sable to the painting site.
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My palette is limited. I work with primaries – a couple blues, three reds and two yellows (below). I favor transparent colors, to allow the ground and underdrawing to come through. I usually don’t carry paint tubes to site locations. After a few sittings, I have a color scheme in mind, and I mix secondaries or tertiaries at home.
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When use white, I tend to mix Titanium and Zinc (below). I don’t like the coldness of Titanium for the Florida climate, and Zinc, although warmer, is known to become brittle with age.
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I carry my paint supplies in a bucket, which fits inside a larger utility bucket.
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The utility bucket is then used as a seat while painting. The palettes are re-used plastic food containers.
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I’ve learned to keep my materials and supplies compact, practical for transporting to site locations. Reaching some sites require longer walks (a mile is long walk when carrying a painting support and supplies). Weather conditions may require rapid work and breaking down a set up quickly. If rain is light, I’ll usually work through it. My plein-air working methods developed over years of trial and error.