Quote Originally Posted by D Akey View Post
Very exciting "oil" painting look. Reminds me of a Russian painter Nicolai Fechin who inspired many of the oil painters on the west coast of the USA when he was teaching here. One of the things he did with his oil to make it behave in a particularly impasto way was to squeeze out his oils onto cardboard that then soaked out much of the linseed oil, thereby giving him an extra direct thickness that he didn't blend once on the canvas. Nice stuff. You're probably already aware of him, but here's a link in case anyone is interested in the quality you're getting that I'm referring to (to some degree).

https://www.google.com/search?q=nico...&bih=457&dpr=2
thanks, yea, I love Fechin. I've used the technique before to treat oils like pastels, without realising that was the way he worked up that granular texture! That's really cool. Truthfully I sometimes use Fechin Works as an underlay with ArtRage paintings. Painting over them sort of mixes some randomness in with the digital marks as well as giving the digital strokes some extra tooth. I think I'm painting over the underlays enough to make the images my own, but I am technically stealing some textural bits to approximate an analogue feel.