From Corporate Marketer to Solopreneur: April Paige Brings Decades of Executive Experience to the Challenge of Going It Alone

how long does it take you one of the artworks that is available on your site how long does it take you to create one of those things

Yeah, it's hard to answer that question because it depends if I'm dealing with acrylic or oil or both.

Sometimes I use both.

If I'm dealing with an oil painting, which I don't know if you or your listeners, just a short education, like oils take a long time to dry in between layers.

So sometimes if you're using standard oil paint, it takes up to two weeks.

But I use a fast drying quote unquote oil that takes...

It takes probably two to three days to dry in between layers.

So every one of my oil paintings probably has, I'm going to say, I don't know, at least 20 or 30 layers on them.

So to get that depth in whatever I'm doing, you have to take it slow and it dries slow and you have to be patient.

And it's definitely not been a virtue of mine.

And I've learned to compromise by dealing with these layers fast drying oils.

And I have usually about four or five of them going all at once.

So once I'm waiting on one to dry, I can go to the next one and put the next layer on that one the next day.

That's

a way I get around of not having to wait around.

But

yeah, it takes a long time.

So I'm going to say oil paintings, 20, 30 layers.

You can imagine it takes a couple of months.

And then acrylic is a lot faster, but I'm not going to say that it's Faster is better or worse.

Acrylic is just a whole different way of using paint.

And I love it for my abstracts in particular, where I get that big, chunky texturedness on the canvas that you can't really get with oil.

Or if you do it with oil, it'll take forever to dry.

But I love acrylic for different reasons.

It is definitely faster, but...