Turpentine in the winter...

Okay, so I very quickly realized, after starting my underpainting a few weeks ago, that I'm going to kill myself with fumes because i don't have ventilation.  It's winter and very cold outside, so open windows are just not going to happen.  I'm trying to figure out how to get painting, as I'm really itching to work, but in the meantime i've been playing around with some little tree/landscape paintings in ink.  Perhaps not incredibly original, but they are fun to do and keep me doing art even when I'm super busy with my two jobs.

On that note, I meant to run off to the east coast to pursue art, and ended up working for THE MAN 60 hours a week.  Whoops.

New Painting

Have a big ol' canvas stretched and gessoed and ready to go.  Got me a vat of turpentine and linseed oil, which I actually had to procure from my hardware store as the local art supply shop is a wee overpriced without the student discount and mostly carries terpenoid anyway.  I know it's full of terrible fumes, but in some ways, I'm a purist.  Besides, you can't really make a good medium without the real stuff.

Very eager to get going.