The Break is 40″ x 50″. I stretched a lot of 40″ x 50″ canvases last year and The Break is one of them. Some of the background is done, but the painting still has a long way to go.
‘The Break’ on the easel
My medium dries very quickly, as I’ve written before. Its only limitation is that its fast drying time can make working on large areas, such as the ground in this painting, challenging. That is, smooth transitions are more difficult with fast-drying paint than the normal slow-drying oil. One solution is to add some balsam, like Canadian balsam, to the turpentine. It retards drying time just a little, but it’s enough to ensure smooth transitions.