As I wrote yesterday, I updated the gallery with two paintings that I finished last year. Here is the second one titled The Singer: The Singer is 40″ x 50.” The WordPress plug-in I use to manage my gallery, NextGen, failed so I opened a support ticket. As with the other times that I’ve had…
Yesterday I noticed that I haven’t updated my galleries for a while. So, I added two paintings that I finished last year. Here is one of them, Woman in Black-stripped Dress: Woman in Black-stripped Dress is 40″ x 54.” While working on the gallery, I noticed that the gallery plug-in, NextGen, wasn’t working properly; the…
This site was disrupted overnight. A lot of my readers are outside the US and they want to know what’s up.
I’ve transferred my domain registrar. The process is messy. To complete the transfer, I have to update several records. The catch is that I cannot update the records until the transfer is technically finished. Anyway, things should be back to normal.
Why did I transfer? My host was also my registrar. While their hosting service is still the same and they respond to my support tickets quickly, they haven’t updated their FAQs for some time–a bad sign. So I am also preparing to migrate my site to another host.
Migrating a WordPress site is a painful process and is something I don’t look forward to. I am currently administering a site for someone else that I developed with the static site generator Hugo. I am experimenting with WordPress to Hugo migrations.
My next YouTube video will be about the Dutch artist Jan van Goyen.
Due to changing my ISP, I am late posting this journal entry. I finished the underpainting for Down on Prospect Avenue and started some over-painting. The painting has a long way to go but I’ve gotten this far with just a few sessions, so it’s moving rapidly. As usual, I struggled with the title for…
I moved. Did you notice? I changed my ISP today and there were some rough patches, as there always are when I do this. Nothing seems permanently broken although I haven’t checked everything yet. The last time I moved, things were a lot worse.
Today’s session was the 4th for Man and a Woman in a Room. I don’t know how many more sessions it will need–not a clue. Paintings take on their own personality and this one is adamant bout the direction it wants to go.
I am working on a new oil brush reference that is a companion to my Oil Paint Brands reference. I will discuss the brushes I’m familiar with and rate them too. I’ll update it as I have new material.I thought it would be done last week but stuff happened.
I’ve had about a half-dozen painting sessions with The News. The 44″ x 60″ painting is mid-flight. I estimate there will at least that many more sessions before it’s finished. Large-sized paintings with just a few figures enable me to really work the figures. A lot of my paintings recently, even the large ones, have small-scale…