Charles Forsberg Painting with R&F Pigment Sticks.

Charles Forsberg demonstrates how R&F Pigment Sticks are both a drawing and painting medium like no one else. He frequently returns to drawing, forcefully striking marks into the heavily manipulated buttery paint, then tearing it apart, alternating in a push-pull sequence of drawing and smearing, scraping back, revealing previous drawing marks, and piling what he has scraped up into thick sculptural mounds. It is an amazing and unceasing gestural exercise over many hours, as Forsberg turns the formless ooze he started with into a powerful structure of shapes and sharply accented marks.
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• Charles Forsberg
• Pigment Sticks
• R&F
• Oil Paint
• Oil stick

[chiantirose]

Is he working on a "hot box"? Did he finish by making a monoprint? Will you show the finished painting or tell us what the substrate is?

[rfpaints]

@chiantirose The substrate is made of two large Encausticbords (a product we developed with Ampersand). It is so absorbent that it leaves a matte finish in the thinner applications of paint. For higher gloss throughout, Ampersands Gessobord would work better. There is no heat necessary as Pigment Sticks are mostly linseed oil and pigment with a small amount of natural wax. The image at the end is the finished painting.

[StudioPashnada]

very cool to watch

since it's just a little wax, how long does it take to "dry"? is it more like oils or wax as far as drying/cooling?

[pegbach]

Amazing! What a luscious use of color. Were the pigment sticks or the substrate heated? This video is so much fun to watch!