Turpentine diaries 7/21/19
The first day painting on a new design is always exiting. True, paintings almost never live up to the vision in my mind's eye, but I start every new painting with the same anticipation. I…
Year: 2019
Turpentine diaries 7/14/19
In recent days I've spent time preparing new paintings, that is, drawing and finishing designs. However, I did spend some time actually painting. I had several sessions with my most recent painting, Lens. Unfinished 'Lens'…
Podcast – Academic art and kitsch p.2
I talk about the history of the French Academy of Fine Art and defend it from charges of kitsch. Artists mentioned: David, Manet, Courbet, Watteau, and Fragonard among others.
Turpentine diaries 7/6/19
After several days of drawing, I spent the last 5-6 days working on The Lens (unfinished painting on the easel). I started with the over-painting today before running out of gas. My main palette, the…
Turpentine diaries 6/23/19
Today I had several more sessions on Directions. I posted a video of me working on some of the small, background figures.
Session video: Directions
In this oil painting session video, I work on a large painting (40" x 50") titled 'Directions.' The painting has a lot of variable-sized figures. https://youtu.be/z5EtDiSz2TU
Turpentine diaries 6/16/19
I can't imagine why anyone would want to watch me paint but--believe it or not--I get asked to do session videos with some frequency. So I taped some of my session with Directions. Directions is…
Podcast-academic art
I pick up last episode's discussion about Clement Greenberg and the avant-garde and kitsch, and talk about academic art. Artists mentioned: Gerome, David, Bouguereau, Ingres, and Thomas Couture.