Palettes everywhere
The hand clamps I use for carpentry are versatile. Here, I've used one to attach a palette to my easel. My big palette, the one that spills over my paint cabinet, is movable but when…
Author: Tom Hudson
A bit of drawing
For the past week or so, I've worked exclusively on drawings. More precisely, designs for paintings, as the one illustrated below. These design-focused drawings will be covered by paint. The one illustrated here is the…
Good brush deal
I bought a brush set from Fuumuui: 8-piece kolinsky sable watercolor brushes. This is a tremendous bargain at $21.99 on Amazon. I used the brushes on one of my oil paintings and they performed passably…
RIP faithful laptop
My 10-year-old Dell XPS laptop finally died. With its core i7, it was pretty hot back in 2013. I replaced its Windows OS with Linux some years ago and it was still performing acceptably. There…
Titanium white sucks
I take back all the nice things I said about titanium white. I was never a fan of titanium white but after trying some of Michael Hading's versions of the color, warm white and unbleached…
My red box
I keep my oils in two cabinets. Here is the red drawer. I hate running out of things while I work--it's a mania. Painting is like taking a journey and I don't want the journey…
What happened to Kremer pigments?
The Germany-based art supplier Kremer was the best source for hard-to-find items not long ago. Now? It's impossible to complete orders online, not difficult--impossible. I recently attempted to place an online order with Kremer's U.S.…
Brush graveyard
My brush graveyard is getting too big. I throw out most of my worn-out brushes. I've also been known to snap in two misbehaving brushes. Those I also throw out. But my favorites I inter…