White Balloon 2nd session
Last time I wrote about getting my painting titled White Balloon ready--the preparatory drawing and the first painting session. I am carrying the painting forward with this update. Here is White Balloon after my second…
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New painting prep
My newest painting, White Ballon, is the standard size for me, 40" x 54." The drawing is simple--really the plan for the painting. I define the shapes and clarify the relationships between objects: light on…
Matt Irwin photography
I'm on my third Nikon camera. I bought my first one because the Nikon-produced photos that I saw excited me in ways that the photos from other brands did not. I have never regretted going…
Beach market photos
I use my Nikon Z7 camera all the time. Nearly all my paintings include elements from my own photographs, typically mashups of several photographs. Summer is a great time to take photographs, of course. I…
Thomas Crow
Thomas Crow is an American art historian. For a short time, his interests overlapped with mine, which is how I became aware of him. Some readers might know that I am a fan of the…
Cleveland’s van Goyen
My next video about painter's paintings is on van Goyen's painting titled View of Emmerich in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Van Goyen is another artist from the Dutch Golden Age. He is a contemporary…
Get the lead out
OK, the title of this post is a bit of misdirection. I mean to say 'get the lead in.' Quick-drying oil is very important for oil painting. Not only do quick-drying oils enable artists to…