Baseline yourself
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Read more: Baseline yourself
Regardless of where you are in your career, you will do well to establish a…
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Read more: Fat over lean
So you’ve embraced the two related studio aphorisms I discussed in this recent post: fat…
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Read more: Turpentine diaries 12/31/2018
Art is filled with aphorisms. Fat over lean, for instance, is a famous adage. The…
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Read more: Homemade-drying walnut oil
I wrote before about the drying linseed oil I prepared. I decided to continue my…
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Read more: Finished? Not finished? Finished? Not finished?
Many artists have trouble determining when a painting is finished. It can be excruciatingly painful…
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Read more: Homemade drying oil
The crude container that I made with a lead sheet contains 16 oz. of cold-pressed…
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Read more: Turpentine diaries 5/27/18
The Woman in Red Pants is not over-large so I finished the underpainting, shown here,…
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Read more: Preparing a canvas surface for oil painting
This is a companion to my canvas stretching post. After you stretch a perfectly taut…







