Maulsticks
When my daughter was very young, with a very serious face she asked, "Daddy, why do you hold a big stick in your studio?" To a child, the most question-provoking thing about the studio was…
Category: Main Street
Good flake white
Utrecht flak white continues to surprise me with its good performance. Considering its modest price, it's a good value. I am using it throughout this painting titled The Fair. It covers well and handles crisply.…
Paint bigly
I am painting three new canvases that fit the bigly category. Big for me, is 4' x 5' or thereabouts. In the preceding weeks, I was drawing bigly too--working on the drawings for the new…
I think no, I mean yes
...but it's all wrong... So the song goes. This is a painting that I turned to the wall for a long time as I tried to work out what was bothering me about it. I…
Turpentine diaries 4/7/19
Crossing is part of the Main Street Series. I had several long sessions with it just now but I have no idea when I might finish it. Soon I hope. There are 17 figures or…
Turpentine diaries 3/10/19
I'm a little tired this evening so I'll keep this diary entry brief. Fork, after 4-5 sessions, is moving out of the under-painting stage. I restrict the under-painting to thinly-applied darks and local colors, which…
Turpentine diaries 2/24/19
I completed the under painting today for Fork. Fork is 54" 66". Even if you're not familiar with my blog, you can probably see that the painting is still a long way from the finish…
Turpentine diaries 2/10/19
I had good painting sessions with Fork. The painting is so large, 4.5 x 5.5 feet, that I started painting portions of it before I completed all parts of the drawing. Today I completed the…