This is a series of experimental paintings completed for a few-week course early this spring. Some are solely acrylic, and some are a combination of acrylic and oil paint. The artist had not used oil paints very much previously, nor had used any painting mediums before, hence, this series was for practicing using them.

The artist experimented with using glossy acrylic mediums, matte acrylic mediums, Liquin medium for oil paints, as well as recycled dirt for one of the paintings. In the piece with dirt, the artist used soil from grocery store basil, then separated the chunkier bits of dirt from the finer dirt using a sieve. Then they were mixed with acrylic mediums and acrylic paints.

Another work had also been the (discarded) experiment of another student, Seyoon Yoon, wherein the artist painted on top of the experiments with their own.

Another piece in the series was used as a palette for the some of the other paintings. After becoming more familiar with oil palettes, the artist found it to be quite wasteful (i.e. using baking sheet paper and then throwing it away), hence, they started to put the paint directly on a wooden panel to both not waste the oil paints, as well as document the painting process.

Original Size 40x40 cm