Painting Process
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Isaac will currently work on six to eight paintings at a time on average.
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The average painting will take about a year and a half until completion.
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Painted in acrylics alone but is now making a gradual transition to more oil painting with oil over acrylics in his current painting process.
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Isaac likes to listen to audiobooks, seminars and other classes during his painting periods with occasional music.
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Acrylic paintings are done with the majority of paints used being Chromacolour UK brand paints, Golden and Liquitex paints.
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Oil paintings are done with Utrecht, Gamblin and Rembrandt brand oil
paints.
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Majority of brushes used are Leow Cornell, Utrecht, and Rosemary and Co brushes.
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Paintings are currently painted on untempered masonite panels.
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Paints from imagination, experience and reference photos/ material.
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Paints fluently both right and left handed.
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Lifestyle
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Enjoys horseback riding, hiking, strength training, swimming, yoga, landscaping, carpentry and ranchwork.
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Enjoys building furniture and art equipment
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Made his own sit/stand artist taboret and easel stands out of pocket hole joinery, welding and woodwork.
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Built several weight equipment attachments from scratch through welding, woodwork and upholstery
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Enjoys reading through traditional books, audiobooks, courses and seminars.
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Enjoys reading about anything that can help become more well rounded at his artistic endeavors.
Making antler replicas occasionally as a tool to help understand his subjects is something Isaac enjoys doing from time to time.
Above: Artist taboret Isaac built from scratch showing
lifting mechanism from sitting to standing with jack and rail and pulley system on second picture.
Easel stand Isaac created to help in painting where canvas or board is dimensions that place areas hard to reach during painting process
Isaac's first set of antler replicas with original antlers
Coues deer antlers Isaac is recreating from adding points and repairing where the antlers were chewed up
In the studio
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One of Isaac's bookshelves that he uses to gain insight to help with with painting endeavors
