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Wipe
13 November 2008 in art technique, oil painting
So tonight I’m working on my “White Shirt” painting. I spend a good hour on the most detailed part of the piece—the hangar hook and its shadow. I do a really nice job, with small brushes, getting each curve and the flash of metal just right. Detailed, but not too fussy. Then I step back.
I’ve […]
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Mixing oils
11 November 2008 in art materials, art suppliers
Alex writes,
I love the M. Graham watercolors, so I am going to start there, but, I wonder: Can I use linseed oil with them as a brush cleaner without degrading the quality of the walnut oil? (Linseed is SO much more cost effective.)
Thanks, Alex. I’m not aware of any technical reason not to mix linseed […]
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Shaping the light
9 November 2008 in art technique, oil painting
My former art teacher, Dennis Cheaney, is a realist painter and a student of Ted Seth Jacobs. I learned a lot from Dennis and wish I could still study with him. He conceptualized the process of oil painting in several ways, one of which has really stuck with me.
Generally, when rendering form, you mix up […]
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In progress
9 November 2008 in demo/in progress, oil painting
Here’s what I’m working on now. “White shirt,” oil on panel, 20 × 16”.
I messed up the right sleeve. As was painfully obvious the next day, but somehow didn’t hit me at the time, the shadow color in the right sleeve is too green and too low in chroma. (This may not be clear in […]
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Should children be protected from nude art?
1 November 2008 in personal, the art world
Last year, a friend of ours and her two children (ages 7 and 8, if I recall correctly) visited. They wanted to look in the studio and my wife let them in (after cautioning them not to touch anything). I had a couple of nudes hanging against the wall, which my wife immediately turned around […]