Hi Irina.
One more option. Sometimes I paint on oilpaper art boards - LINK. It is about a 1.5 mm thick board made of a specially prepared textured paper. It does not require any priming etc, and it does not absurd much. I cut it with a knife. It could be a convenient substitute for canvas pads or hardboards.
Regarding water mixable oils someone mentioned here. I paint with them as I cannot use traditional oils at home for various reasons. I use Cobra and W&N. Cobra is softer. W&N a bit drier. It is in fact just normal oil paint with some emulsification additive that allows the paint to dissolve in water. Otherwise any traditional oil mediums can be used with these paints. No difference comparing to traditional oils with regard to how the paint behaves as well. The ranges of these paints have their own mediums that are also water mixable. The advantage is that they do not smell and can be clean with just water without any problem. One can also use water instead of mediums to dilute paints is there is any problem with using mediums.
Hi Artemi,
Thanks a lot for the idea! I just arrived in Moscow. I plan to check out local art stores sometime next week and see what they have for sale there. Since I will have to buy all my art stuff from scratch, I may buy surfaces and paints I have never tried before.
Hi Irina,
Try this guys https://www.krayart.su/ . They make a lot of things including boards for very reasonable money.
Got it! Thanks so much again!
Hi Irina,
I am curious whether you were able to sell your work while travelling and, if so, how that went. I recently moved to France and am wondering about all the administrative, logistical aspectsā¦
Hanneke
Hi Hanneke! Iāve been in Russia between mid-May and mid-September, and during that time I didnāt sell anything, because when I went to check out how to ship the international packages with Post of Russia, I found out that it could easily take more than two months, and that they donāt guarantee any delivery times at all. I got a few inquiries about my paintings, but after all, nobody wanted to use such a service, and I stopped uploading my works to DPW. Still carrying around a couple of paintings that I promised to ship once Iām back in the US. Since mid-September, Iāve been in Cambridge, and I sold a few works while being here. In Cambridge, everything was easy because of the help of a UK-based artist Artemi Glazkov. He commented on this thread earlier, and when I contacted him, he advised me to use Royal Mail and even explained how to fill out the custom declaration form.
I hope there will be no problems to ship from France either.
Hi Irina,
Thank you so much for this!
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I would definitely say to draw and sketch more. You might find the change is welcome and helps you get back to the basics. I am also doing this as I finish this year and start next year because of traveling and wanting to keep things simple. Keep your creativity flowing!
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Thank you, Rachel! Itās been a while since I asked my question, and since then I also learned a bit about Procreate and found out that digital painting has a lot in common with regular painting and that itās a great tool to try things out. Now my iPad is my main sketching and painting tool when Iām away.