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    Review: Rublev paint
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    Review: Rublev paint

    Tom Hudson February 7, 2025

    Rublev oil paint is excellent. Along with Harding, they are my choice for high-end oil paint. I've used Rublev oils frequently but only recently moved them into the top tier on my Oil Paint Brand…

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    Old Holland, I want to forgive you
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    Old Holland, I want to forgive you

    Tom Hudson July 9, 2021

    I explain why I banished Old Holland from my palette in this post. Even though I rate Old Holland's oil paint the best in my Oil Paint Reference, their prices are so absurdly high that…

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    Review: Utrecht oils
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    Review: Utrecht oils

    Tom Hudson February 15, 2017

    It's hard for me to understand this but until this week I never used Utrecht brand oils.  I'm not sure why this is.  I've visited their shops in NYC and Cleveland and ordered plenty of…

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    Book review: Heorot Series vol. 1 & 2
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    Book review: Heorot Series vol. 1 & 2

    Tom Hudson February 1, 2016

    I listened to the two books in the Heorot series, The Legacy of Heorot, and Beowulf's Children on my Audible app. The books were written by the team of Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steve…

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    Quick review: Brinsley Tyrrell at Busta Gallery
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    Quick review: Brinsley Tyrrell at Busta Gallery

    Tom Hudson October 31, 2013

    At first sight, I was underwhelmed by Brinsley Tyrrell's show, Ohio Lands Forever, at Busta. The large-format pieces with their electric colors and ropey splatters struck me as gimmicky and shrill. Tyrrell's enamel on steel…

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    Review: Truppe Fledermaus and the Carnival at the End of the World
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    Review: Truppe Fledermaus and the Carnival at the End of the World

    Tom Hudson October 28, 2013

    The collaborative team of Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick recently filled the Galleries at  Cleveland State U. with posters, postcards, and photos from their magical world of speculative fiction and false history--Truppe Fledermaus and the…

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    Thumbs Down: Sargent; Thumbs Up: Bouguereau

    Tom Hudson April 14, 2013April 25, 2013Leave a comment

    John Singer Sargent and William-Adolphe Bouguereau are not normally considered together, yet their careers overlapped for several decades. In the ‘Undergrad’s Giant Book of Art History’ Sargent is counted among the progressives, while Bouguereau is thrown…

    Non Reviews

    Tom Hudson April 9, 2013April 10, 2013Leave a comment

    I was going to title this post ‘negative reviews’ referring to non-reviews—shows I’ve visited that did not speak to me, and so no reviews were forthcoming. Silence as a review, so to speak. But, of…

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