Trying to learn oil painting, using water mixable. Surgery date 16 October to remove breast cancer.

[bhikkhu]

31. One of my favorite cheap-and-easy ways -

is to keep an eye out at garage sales or discount stores for little frames with disposable prints or things in them. Then I get a 1/8th hardboard panel from the hardware store and acrylic-prime it. Unless you're using the paint really heavily, that holds oils just fine. You can cut pieces out of the panel to fit the frames then. It's really nice to finish something and pop it in a frame, or to wonder if it's finished and pop it in the frame to see how it looks. I do a lot of big serious months-of-work stuff, but I still like to do little panels for something quick or to give away. Just last weekend I met up with an old friend and his wife, who I hardly see, and gave them a bright little frames landscape for their house. That feels nice.

I've never used water soluble oils myself, but they look nice in the pics, good work!