Turpentine diaries 1/20/2019
NE Ohio was pounded by a winter storm overnight. At noon, we--my wife, daughter, and me--braved the gusting winds and blowing snow to clear the driveway. We had to shovel through snow drifts just to…
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Turpentine diaries 1/13/19
Booth at the Fair ( or At the Fair or The Fair) is 44" x 60," which makes it one of the larger canvases I've worked on recently. I am working on the drawing for…
Fat over lean
So you've embraced the two related studio aphorisms I discussed in this recent post: fat over lean, and make the lights thick but keep the darks thin. In practical terms what does this mean? Oil…
Turpentine diaries 1/6/2019
This morning I finished the first painting of 2019, Along 4th Street. Today's session was the 14th with this painting, which is par for a painting of this size, 40"x 50." The finished 'Along 4th…
Turpentine diaries 12/31/2018
Art is filled with aphorisms. Fat over lean, for instance, is a famous adage. The meaning for this old saw that is the most straightforward is to paint thickly-applied paint over thinly-applied paint. Why this…
Christmas 2018
This was the first Christmas when our children didn't wake at dawn. My youngest, home from his Freshman year at college, didn't get up until lunchtime! So we had a leisurely morning around the stout…
Venice turpentine
David Davis was an art supply dealer in New York. He closed before the turn of the century--well before, so I have no idea how old this Venice turpentine I found this morning is. At…
