Turpentine diaries 7/6/19
After several days of drawing, I spent the last 5-6 days working on The Lens (unfinished painting on the easel). I started with the over-painting today before running out of…
Turpentine diaries 6/23/19
Today I had several more sessions on Directions. I posted a video of me working on some of the small, background figures.
Session video: Directions
In this oil painting session video, I work on a large painting (40″ x 50″) titled ‘Directions.’ The painting has a lot of variable-sized figures.
Turpentine diaries 6/16/19
I can’t imagine why anyone would want to watch me paint but–believe it or not–I get asked to do session videos with some frequency. So I taped some of my…
Podcast-academic art
I pick up last episode’s discussion about Clement Greenberg and the avant-garde and kitsch, and talk about academic art. Artists mentioned: Gerome, David, Bouguereau, Ingres, and Thomas Couture.
Turpentine diaries 5/12/19
As much as I whine and moan about this or that, I’m not the hot-house plant that I may appear. And sometimes my paintings go well! (Although, I won’t say…
Avant-garde and kitsch
In this podcast, I look at Clement Greenberg’s influential article from 1939, ‘Avant-Garde and Kitsch.’
A look at Rublev oils – video review
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…
