Marsh Lake, YT Canada - plein air to studio painting (2)

Progress has been made! 

But it takes quite some time 

for the oil and cold wax medium to dry 

so I am not quite finished with this painting.

Began with some basic shapes.

Found this cradled wood panel at Blick's in Seattle 

and thought it was a good size for my first cold wax medium (CWM) painting.

I prepped the raw board with acrylic gesso.

Then mixed up some paint with the CWM (about 50/50),

 and scraped it on the board.  

The CWM + oil paint was thick and smooth, 

but not buttery like oil paint right out of the tube.

I began scraping into the paint. 

Oh! That's right, I put some marble dust 

into the brownish paint/CWM mix for the closer mountains. 

You can kind of see that in this shot.

This view is with the white and CWM covering the top fifth.

I love the texture already! Maybe next post it will be finished.

Thanks so much for checking in!