Behold! A headless video (sorry guys) of yours truly prepping an ACM panel for oil painting. What can I say, I pointed the camera at the panel, and you can definitely see the important parts. Here, you can watch me viciously exacerbate my elbow tendonitis in real-time while I explain in detail some of the processes, thoughts, and techniques that I find important in preparing a surface…for those occasions when I am not painting on linen. It seems I always have plenty of linen panels sitting around when I’m in the mood to paint on a smooth surface, and plenty of smooth panels sitting around when I am just dying for the tooth of linen. Thus, today I used a box cutter to cut down the very panel I am priming in this video to a smaller size, which is somewhat tragic since larger ones are more expensive and harder to prime.