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Category: Tips and Studies
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Maulsticks
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•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 my homemade maulstick. You can see my maulstick in this photograph. It’s resting against a 40″ x 52″ painting (the…
Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Tips and Studies, Turpentine diaries
Turpentine diaries 7/14/19
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•In recent days I’ve spent time preparing new paintings, that is, drawing and finishing designs. However, I did spend some time actually painting. I had several sessions with my most recent painting, Lens. Most objects come alive under the brush by using the complement of its primary color in the half-tones–the areas between the higher…
Tips and Studies, Turpentine diaries, video
Session video: Directions
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•Grumpy review, materials, Reviews, Tips and Studies, video
A look at Rublev oils – video review
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•Link to the review on Turpentine diaries YouTube page. Last week I finally got off my behind and started podcasting, and this week I’ve produced my first video. In this video I look at two oils from Rublev: Sun-thickened Linseed Oil, and Sun-bleached Linseed Oil. Rublev produces a lot of art materials, some good, and…
anecdotes, materials, Shop Talk, Tips and Studies, Uncategorized
Baseline yourself
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•Regardless of where you are in your career, you will do well to establish a baseline for your oil-painting toolkit. The baseline provides a powerful framework that you can use to analyze materials and techniques. At some point in your journey, you begin to question the received wisdom that guided you at the outset. This…
aesthetics, materials, Shop Talk, Tips and Studies, Uncategorized
Fat over lean
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•So you’ve embraced the two related studio aphorisms I discussed in this recent post: fat over lean, and make the lights thick but keep the darks thin. In practical terms what does this mean? Oil paint, tube paint, is stiff and unmalleable. Adding oils and solvents to the paint makes it manageable. But these additions…
aesthetics, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Tips and Studies, Turpentine diaries, Uncategorized
Turpentine diaries 12/31/2018
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•Art is filled with aphorisms. Fat over lean, for instance, is a famous adage. The meaning for this old saw that is the most straightforward is to paint thickly-applied paint over thinly-applied paint. Why this distinction? Well, if you paint in layers, that is, if you paint over previously painted areas, you ignore this practice…