Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div>Anyway, here are two recently started paintings. The top painting, Blah, Blah, Blah<\/em>, is 30″ x 36;” the lower one, Keith Wearing a Fur Cap<\/em>, is 30″ x 40.”<\/p>\nUntil recently, I used neutral-toned, middle-value grounds but I’ve changed to white grounds. As a consequence, the first pass with paint (the under-painting), is thicker than with the non-white grounds. Although I take pains to preserve the drawing, I just want to get paint down, and I don’t worry overmuch about the details. I think what I’m saying is evident in these newly started-paintings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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