Natalie Oswald demostrating both Acrylic and Oil Painting on Ampersand Gessobord at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store

Natalie Oswald demostrating both Acrylic and Oil Painting on Ampersand Gessobord at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store

Earlier this morning, Natalie Oswald demonstrated painting on Ampersand panels at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH store.  This was a single 2 hour demo from 10am to Noon.  Natalie worked with both acrylic paint and oil paint on the prepared, and ready-to-paint surfaces of Ampersand Gessobord.  The ready-to-paint surface of all the Ampersand Bord products makes it ideal to have on hand when inspriration strikes!

 
Natalie worked over the surface of the Gessobord in her particular style which invloves layering background acrylic paint in different colors (sometimes very bright!) often using custom stamps she has made (usually out of Safety-Kut blocks) to get a wall paper effect before painting her subject in oil. 
 
Natalie will apply washes of acrylic paint thinned with acrylic medium to tone down colors and told the audience that she has on occassion, gone back and sanded down part of the surface to expose some of the colors painted earlier.  Almost a geologic process of laying down color and sometimes exposing the ealier colors when she erodes the surface with sandpaper. 
 
For the demo, Natalie painted two birds interacting in flight in Sepia oil paint as an underpainting for her subject.  These birds were painted on top of the background of a decoratively stamped design that Natalies had done earlier.  Later, when the sepia color has dried, Natalie will finish painting the birds in oil paint.
 
Natalie has found that for her, painting a decorative underpainting in acrylic on the Ampersand Gessobord helps take away the paralysis of “The Blank Page”, and her recent work has all been done this way.
 
For more on using Ampersand Gessobord (in oils) see the DANIEL SMITH Tutorial “How to get more out of your Painting Surface:  Oils on Gessobord” by Jennifer Phillips .
  

Thank you Natalie!

 
 
Every Day,  Express Yourself  with  ART….
 
~Deborah Burns
 
SPECIAL TIME
Saturday,  November 1st from 10am to Noon
AMPERSAND PANELS
Natalie Oswald
www.ampersandart.com