Lisbeth Firmin in her studio,
photo by J.N. Urbanski
An oil painting takes quite a long time. I call them “passes”, where I work on a painting and I give it a complete pass, like a layer. So it starts off like a very loose dark and light abstract thing and it’s almost like a photograph being developed as I keep working on it. I would say it takes ten to twelve passes. And then there’s a lot of tweaking after that. I like to sit on it for at least a few months and just look at it, you know? Or not look at it and look at it again after a few months. They take about a year. I’m working on four or five at a time. So I’m getting those four of five done within a year, let’s say.
Read the full interview with J.N. Urbanski at Upstate Dispatch
