Painting nuts and bolts
My homemade palette has provided good service for several years. It has enough room to muck about in, but it's not so large that it's difficult to move or clean. I converted the glass-framed reproduction…
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My homemade palette has provided good service for several years. It has enough room to muck about in, but it's not so large that it's difficult to move or clean. I converted the glass-framed reproduction…
One day in the park at Playhouse Square, I saw a young lady sitting alone and eating her lunch. As usual, I was taking photos and I wanted to take some of her but I…
At the Whitney Biennal last spring, protestors made headlines when they demanded that the museum destroy an artwork they found offensive. The protesters didn't want the painting removed from the Biennial, they wanted it destroyed. The painting…
I feel like Sisyphus. The batch of paintings that are working me over are all in mid-flight. I keep rolling the rock uphill but I haven't reached or even seen the crest of the hill. Not only…
After flavoring my medium with additions for several days, today I used my normal medium. I worked on this painting during both of today's sessions. When the painting surface is right, as with this painting,…
Yesterday's Thanksgiving holiday was wonderful at our house. We had three of our children here to share my wife's delicious turkey and stuffing. Daughter Jane baked an apple pie, and son Keith made deep-fried mac and cheese. …
I've written about my everyday-medium plenty of times. I frequently modify my medium for certain situations. Sometimes, for example, I add a little Venice turpentine to the regular turpentine I use in my medium. I add…
Upsidedown. It's useful to look at your paintings in mirrors or upsidedown, as I've down here. The old rule-of-thumb maintains that a painting should be balanced when looked at normally and in a mirror. That old…
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