Art is filled with aphorisms. Fat over lean, for instance, is a famous adage. The meaning for this old saw that is the most straightforward is to paint thickly-applied paint over thinly-applied paint. Why this distinction? Well, if you paint in layers, that is, if you paint over previously painted areas, you ignore this practice…
Month: December 2018
Bio, Uncategorized, Vermilion, OH
Christmas 2018
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•This was the first Christmas when our children didn’t wake at dawn. My youngest, home from his Freshman year at college, didn’t get up until lunchtime! So we had a leisurely morning around the stout Christmas tree. The tree, besides being too wide, was too tall for the living room but we managed. That’s our…
anecdotes, materials, Shop Talk, Uncategorized
Venice turpentine
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•materials, Shop Talk, Uncategorized
Spike
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•Oil of spike lavender fills the studio with its strong and fragrant aroma. Oil of spike is more powerful than the other common solvents–turpentine, and mineral spirits–but it’s also slower drying. Because it is slow drying, paint stays open longer. This means that thin layers remain workable longer than other solvent-thinned layers. This feature is…
Bio, materials, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Turpentine diaries
Turpentine diaries 12/21/18
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•Cleveland, Paintings, Shop Talk, Turpentine diaries
Back at the picnic
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•aesthetics, Paintings, Studio Corner, Turpentine diaries, Uncategorized, Vermilion, OH
Turpentine diaries 12/16/2018
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•I finished Bench by the Lake in a short session yesterday. I hadn’t looked at the painting for months before yesterday’s session. It’s not unusual for a painting to be in-hand for a long time, and then–boom–I finish quickly. The top painting in the photo, Keep Talking, is still raw. I am keeping it simple…
computers, materials, Shop Talk
Sunny December studio
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•Sunshine has been rare in NE Ohio. The sunlight lighting the studio is cheery and warming–and winter has barely started. Yes, I have five computers on my desk. I am using three of them to investigate Linux distributions–CentOS, Manjaro, and Ubantu. I spent the morning drawing, then applied an oil ground to a new canvas,…