Transferring Designs to Canvas
I routinely transfer designs as I rework subjects in various mediums. There are several standard methods for transferring designs to a target surface. One long-used method was to prepare a cartoon to…
In the Studio 2/17/2013
A productive day with a lot of good sunlight. I finished two self-portraits this morning (a gouache and another pastel-gouache), almost finished the drawing for a new still life (oil),…
Gaertner at the Cleveland Museum of Art
I’m an idiot, but you already knew that. After writing about discovering Frederick Gaertner in this post, I belatedly realized I had seen–on numerous occasions, no less–one of his paintings at…
On the Easel Feb. 10, 2013
Picasso said he became an artist because he wanted to have his own collection of paintings. That sounds apocryphal but if he didn’t say it, he should have. I’ve been…
Julie Friedman at Busta Gallery
In her show, Perennial Shift, at the William Busta Gallery, Julie Friedman exhibits a print maker’s love of process. Initially, the pieces (a useful generic term) reminded me of the silhouettes you can have made at Coney Island…
Book Thief
In the summer before third grade, we moved to a small town far from Dayton. The ramshackle house we rented was across the street from the public library. With its…
David Hickey’s Air Guitar
Do you like to read? Me, I’ve always been a voracious reader. Like other autodidacts, I let my interests take me where it will–I read what I damn well please.…
Carl Gaertner
Yesterday was a lucky day–I discovered an artist new to me: Carl Gaertner (1898-1952). Gaertner’s reputation is almost entirely local to Cleveland, as Robert Smith‘s is confined to Dayton. Gaertner was born…