Mirror Self Portrait, Don Jusko, 5-20-1941, 11"x15", Oil, #981, 11-1-11

I thought since blending is easier with oil, and I just spent two years painting from models in pastels and oils.
I should paint a self portrait in oil. I drew it in charcoal with my shirt off, meaning to add a shirt later but the later never came.
TIP: Alcohol on will remove dried oil paint. Alcohol will also dissolve the dry water-based acrylics on your palette or
on your painting, the acrylic paints harden again upon drying. Alcohol dries faster than water so you have anther tool. Another water-based paint is Cara Cola Wax Soap emulsion ,
it's made by emulsifying wax and ammonia with heat. Ammonia or water are the two ways to either dissolve, remove or paint with either the cara cola wax paint or acrylics.
You can bring back a brush-full of that acrylic color that just dried out on your palette.
Another water-based medium is Fresco. You can use alcohol as lime water to lock in a pigment in a fresco, not that you would want to.
Alcohol will also lift of dried oil paint right down to the white gesso, and beyond if you wanted it to.

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