Studio journal 3/12/17
I worked most of the day on The Candidate, the painting in the upper-center in this batch of current work. The underpainting is done. I'll say it's done. I don't like the ground on this…
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I worked most of the day on The Candidate, the painting in the upper-center in this batch of current work. The underpainting is done. I'll say it's done. I don't like the ground on this…
I'm late posting this journal entry. I actually posted a later version of the bottom painting, Girl in the Lavender Dress. That painting plus the painting on the easel, Break, are both in the Playhouse…
It's unusual to get rain showers in February in NE Ohio. Normally, the only precipitation we experience this time of year is snow--a lot of it. But the warm weather, 70+, was accompanied by driving, slashing rain. My…
Today, I finished the underpainting for the new painting Girl in the Lavender Dress. I based the design on several photos taken around Cleveland's Playhouse Square, so the painting is part of the Playhouse Square…
I've always approached painting as a process of carving away and revealing, the way I imagine a sculptor approaches sculpting. Not modeling but carving. I bring this up because this unfinished painting, Sub Rosa, is a pretty good…
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…
I placed a paint order on RGH's website, and the agile boys at RGH promptly shipped two 250 ml jars of Paynes gray to me. Unfortunately, I'd ordered two 250 ml jars of flake white. I…
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