Murder on brushes
The first session with my new painting, Fork, mangled a new brush. Fork is a large painting, 54" x 66". Because it's so large I am not transferring a cartoon to the canvas but drawing…
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Turpentine diaries 1/20/2019
NE Ohio was pounded by a winter storm overnight. At noon, we--my wife, daughter, and me--braved the gusting winds and blowing snow to clear the driveway. We had to shovel through snow drifts just to…
Turpentine diaries 1/13/19
Booth at the Fair ( or At the Fair or The Fair) is 44" x 60," which makes it one of the larger canvases I've worked on recently. I am working on the drawing for…
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;…
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 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…
Turpentine diaries 6/24/18
The drawing on the easel in the following photo is lead on pastel paper. I'd intended to highlight it with white but decided it was OK as it is. The painting on the easel, Woman…
Turpentine diaries 6/17/18
The thing about this Fabriano drawing pad is I can work-up drawings with pencil or pen--my two favorite materials--without mess or fuss. The really good paper I save for charcoal or pastel, but this paper…