To all of you artists who love to advance their oil painting please read on. Last year when working with Artfix and Raymar I learned some very important technical nuggets helping me develop the highest quality oil painting panel from Raymar. Their nomenclature using letter C and U very important if you have developed a ground to coat your panel. Raymar use different primers the C primer is a doubled coated oil base simulating Lead oxide and a U double primed acrylic primer. If you are using an acrylic coating formula you will use the U formula the C oil based primer may not give good bonding to your acrylic coating. So last year I developed a superior modified panel using 6 layers of my acrylic coating on their L 22 U.I have painted many portraits and wildlife with great success and my 3 duck stamp entry in 2021 to WI Waterfowl Duck Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp and Oregon Duck Stamp were all painted using my modified L22U. The weave texture of the L22 Belgium linen is medium and so even after my coating some minor surface texture. On a duck stamp the surface needs to be perfectly smooth. In working with Catherine Dietrich CEO of Raymar and Pierre Guidetti of Artfix they developed a whole new type of Artfix Belgium Linen. The product called L84C uses the finest weave, # strands per inch, however, since is made with C oil based primer I can not use to coat my acrylic coating. This past September, Raymar used the L84 Belgium Linen ( finest weave) and made using the U acrylic base primer...volia!!! I just received this new material last Friday and today I finished my first wildlife oil painting, Canvasback Drake on a 9" x 12" x 1/8" panel using 6 layers of my acrylic coating. My finished surface is perfectly smooth  and I painted this painting in two steps. Layer #1 yesterday and dry over night, today layer #2 oils. Tomorrow I will continue developing more duck painting.

I am really grateful for this opportunity to create my finest oil paintings of my 30 year career...I am just like a boy in a candy shop!!!

Jimmy Springett wildlife painter

Titled " Is Love "