I finished drawing the cartoon for this painting yesterday and spent the morning transferring it to the canvas. You can see the transferred cartoon in this photo. I spent the remainder of yesterday and all of today working on the new painting. In this photo, the gray ground is still visible throughout the painting. Booth at…
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Turpentine diaries 8/13/17
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•I finished the small painting sitting on the floor this morning. I thought I’d finished it last week but something about it bugged me this morning, so I couldn’t resist taking-up the brush. Sometimes when I look at one of my old paintings, I’m transferred back to when I worked on it–like a time machine.…
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Turpentine diaries 8/6/17
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•The Delegate is 36″ x 48″. It still has a way to go. It’s another painting with an annoying surface. I’ve written a lot recently about painting surfaces, I know. I bought a large roll of canvas two years ago, which enables me to monitor how changes to the painting surface can affect performance. All the…
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Turpentine diaries 7/30/17
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Turpentine diaries 7/16/17
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Turpentine diaries 6/25/17
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•The Girl in the Lavender Dress, another painting in the Playhouse Square series, is nearly finished and today’s was only the sixth session, which is fast for me. You can see in the right background two canvases that I recently prepared. Both are 36″ x 48,” which is the same size as Girl in the Lavender…
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Studio journal 6/11/17
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Studio journal 6/2/17
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•After spending the morning drawing, I fully intended to finish Euclid Avenue #1, which I wrote about in the previous Studio journal post, and you can see it in the background of this photo. Instead, I worked on Jane and Keith Aboard the Betty Jane. Both paintings are 48″ x 60.” I plan to finish Euclid…