Oksana Veber

Inside look into my art methods, techniques.

Dear visitors,

I have something to tell you today. It will be an inside look into the art methods, techniques, that I use. 

I used to paint in all the possible art and non-art materials and also did the huge stain glass projects earlier in the Soviet Era in Ukraine.

My first exhibition abroad in Denmark Copenhagen was all in watercolour on paper technique.

Then while living in the Prague Czech Republic I completely focused on oil-based painting materials.

I used the traditional technique, based on the realism oil painting style, which we have been taught. It was the oil on canvas or card paintings. 

Then I started to develop my own technique which is the combination of the pointed etching needles and oil colours on a special durable card. This gives me the great texture of scratched drowning deeply or gently filled with an oil paint which is contrasting to the oil glossy and smooth card structure. 

I prefer to use the Rembrandt and St Peterborough oils, which are highly transparent and can be layered after they get dry as many times as I need to create special multilayer finish.

The goal is to get the colour layers to be translucent and shine through.

For the base, before I get to the actual painting, I use a special acrylic ground and number of acrylic texture pastes which I could apply freely by pallet knives in various ways.

I use a lot of the mix of linen oil with varnish and turpentine oil for diluting the oil paint. This mixture allows the paint not dry so quickly and give time to work with it to adjust when necessary. This gives me desired semi covering each other layers of the thin oil paint. 

The painting process is never the same, there is always room for improvisation and experiment with non-traditional materials and instruments.

For example, sometimes I use a sandpaper or metal wire brushes to create special effects on the surface of a painting. I used various imprinting effects made by pressure against the painting surface from shapes in wood or plastic, or in broken glass.

Hope this description can provide a brief look into the kitchen of artistic processes.

Please feel free to ask any questions. 

I would gladly answer all of them.

Kind regards

Oksana Veber