Matt Irwin photography
I'm on my third Nikon camera. I bought my first one because the Nikon-produced photos that I saw excited me in ways that the photos from other brands did not. I have never regretted going…
Year: 2021
Beach market photos
I use my Nikon Z7 camera all the time. Nearly all my paintings include elements from my own photographs, typically mashups of several photographs. Summer is a great time to take photographs, of course. I…
Thomas Crow
Thomas Crow is an American art historian. For a short time, his interests overlapped with mine, which is how I became aware of him. Some readers might know that I am a fan of the…
Cleveland’s van Goyen
My next video about painter's paintings is on van Goyen's painting titled View of Emmerich in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Van Goyen is another artist from the Dutch Golden Age. He is a contemporary…
Get the lead out
OK, the title of this post is a bit of misdirection. I mean to say 'get the lead in.' Quick-drying oil is very important for oil painting. Not only do quick-drying oils enable artists to…
It’s all been done before
Yesterday, I determined to finish Woman in White-stripped Dress. Even though I failed, I was excited to get back at it again today. This afternoon, I ran out of gas before finishing it. Oh well.…
Death of a brush
Serves me right. After I bragged about how rugged the Old Holland sable oil brushes are, this brush died, as you can see. It lost too many fibers and lost its usefulness. It lasted longer…
Blue Ridge’s cremintz white
The brands I use most often for the all-import flake white are RGH, Blue Ridge, and Utrecht. I crossed Utrecht off the list after discovering that they've added zinc to their Flemish white. I don't…