My current favorite new medium to play with are the beautiful, juicy oil sticks by R&F. I feel like a little kids using finger-paint all over again. They are so soft and highly pigmented. I use them in my cold wax paintings for mark making and adding areas of luscious color. Pigment sticks really are the grown up version of oil pastels times ten.
Cold Wax Medium (CWM) mixed with oil paint is gaining popularity with painters because of the wonderful textural qualities that can be created as well as the luminosity the wax gives to the different layers of paint. You can add things to the wax to incorporate it into your surface. Check out my gallery to see the cold wax paintings. A wonderful book to investigate is Cold Wax Medium: Techniques, Concepts, and Conversations by Rebecca Crowell and Jerry McLaughlin. You can find it at Squeegee Press .com and Amazon.
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Hidden Pathways Dawn Hartigan 2019