Where am I?
I haven't posted in a month and some readers might be wondering if anything is up. Nope. A vacation mixed-in with some other business has kept me away from my brushes. Breaks can be good;…
Year: 2018
Turpentine diaries 10/28/18
Keep fresh It is certainly important to keep fresh eyes. I'd planned to write more about this important topic but I've missed my usual posting date, so if I don't post soon, it will be…
Turpentine diaries 10/22/18
Normally in my Turpentine Diaries posts, I include a photo of an unfinished painting after having worked on it. As regular readers know, I'm not shy about criticizing my work--far from it! There are always…
Homemade-drying walnut oil
I wrote before about the drying linseed oil I prepared. I decided to continue my investigations by preparing some drying walnut oil, the results of which you can see in the accompanying photograph. The walnut…
Turpentine diaries 10/7/18
Small paintings (this painting is 30" x 40") always take longer than I expect. Starting, I intend to keep it simple, but I'm always discovering more things to explore or problems to solve. I'm only…
Turpentine diaries 9/23/18
Down on Prospect Avenue? Prospect Avenue? Prospect? Down on Prospect? The latter is the name I plan to stick with. This painting is almost finished. My habit is to put away an almost-done painting and…
Turpentine diaries 9/16/18
Keep Talking is scudding along; still unfinished, obviously, but it's moving closer. In this photo, Keep Talking, which is 36" x 48", shares the easel with a canvas I recently prepared. You can see the…
Turpentine diaries 8/26/18
I am happy with my painting medium, as I've written before, but I also like to kick the tires of new offerings. I wrote about my use of Grove's Cole's medium several times, noting how…