Turpentine diaries 9/9/17
The studio is busy just now. The drawing is a study for a large painting I'm preparing to launch. The figures, except for the right-hand two, are prominent in the new painting's design. I plan…
Category: Studio Corner
Turpentine diaries 9/4/17
I started working on the painting on the easel, Along 4th Street, yesterday. I've had two long sessions on it, but it still needs a lot of work. I'm careful about cutting off figures…
Turpentine diaries 8/27/17
The finished painting on the floor in this photo, Dare, is another painting of my son Keith standing in front of an earlier painting with him as the subject. Dare is 24" x 30." The…
Turpentine diaries 8/13/17
I finished the small painting sitting on the floor this morning. I thought I'd finished it last week but something about it bugged me this morning, so I couldn't resist taking-up the brush. Sometimes when…
Turpentine diaries 8/6/17
The Delegate is 36" x 48". It still has a way to go. It's another painting with an annoying surface. I've written a lot recently about painting surfaces, I know. I bought a large roll…
Turpentine diaries 7/30/17
Sub Rosa, on the easel, is part of the Main Street series. I've been using RGH's ultra-fine flake white regularly, which can be seen in the middle of the palette. I like it. Last week,…
Turpentine diaries 7/23/17
Break is finally done. I struggled with the surface from the beginning which resulted in more sessions than usual. I won't bore you with the details; the surface isn't awful--it's perfectly sound--but it's not to my…
Turpentine diaries 7/16/17
I decided to work on my backlog of unfinished studies and small paintings. I worked on all of the paintings in the photo today, the bottom-left one last. One small study, not shown, has a problem…