Artchives

My apologies for the horrible pun, but I just couldn’t resist.

Click on any of the months below to see an expanded list of posts during that month.

July 2008 (8)
- 06: The damage done by incompetent bureaucracy at Lascaux (0)
- 06: Spines (0)
- 07: Stairs (0)
- 07: Two years (2)
- 08: Bars (2)
- 09: Repost: So you’ve decided to try oil painting (0)
- 09: I hate this kind of “art” (17)
- 10: Repost: Glazing (5)
June 2008 (7)
- 01: More from “The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield (1)
- 10: Another tempera grassa recipe (0)
- 11: More art advice (1)
- 15: Q & A Page (5)
- 23: Question about panels (0)
- 23: Paint-making notes (0)
- 29: Tell me more about…the Art Therapy (2)
May 2008 (12)
- 03: Book Review: “The War of Art” (4)
- 07: Finger painting (1)
- 09: The best oil painting medium (5)
- 18: Light brush, dark brush (2)
- 23: Where to find medium supplies (7)
- 24: Color Sense (0)
- 26: Mixing pairs: ultramarine blue and burnt sienna (0)
- 26: Mixing pairs: vermillion and lamp black (0)
- 26: Blue Ridge (7)
- 27: Mixing pairs: cadmium red and lamp black (0)
- 31: Painting shirt (2)
- 31: On the easel (1)
April 2008 (10)
- 01: Joey (0)
- 02: Dog! (0)
- 02: Stepping back (1)
- 03: Mourning (0)
- 05: Corn (0)
- 05: A portrait by Memling (0)
- 07: When mommies attack! (0)
- 19: Few not-modern notes on humanity… (0)
- 21: Flat space (0)
- 27: Some benefits of keeping a “Studio Journal” (2)
March 2008 (19)
- 03: Few words on an artist’s condition… (3)
- 08: Color mixing for beginners (10)
- 15: Re-frosting a muller (4)
- 22: Blogging mechanics with WordPress (0)
- 26: Tude (0)
- 26: Spray (1)
- 28: Ripples (0)
- 28: Phone (0)
- 28: Camera Raw (0)
- 28: What you can do with an overexposed photo (0)
- 28: Falls (0)
- 29: Flow (0)
- 29: Autumn (0)
- 29: (0)
- 30: Reflection (0)
- 30: Duane Keiser on Velazquez (0)
- 30: Three Cherries (0)
- 31: Wandering (0)
- 31: Black and white (0)
February 2008 (11)
- 10: I’ve been gone for awhile (0)
- 10: Grokking it (0)
- 10: Sanguine (0)
- 14: Chroma Cluelessness Syndrome (9)
- 14: Useless post about brushes (0)
- 14: Archives not working (0)
- 17: On the reading list (0)
- 17: Updated article on color (0)
- 20: Robert Doak (0)
- 21: More on chroma (0)
- 22: What’s the difference between chroma and saturation? (6)
November 2007 (3)
- 04: Question about tempera (6)
- 04: Notes on a new painting (2)
- 09: Peter Howson - an “extreme” painter (13)
October 2007 (13)
- 03: Thinking about this site (6)
- 03: Color blog (4)
- 08: Contributors invited (0)
- 09: Neutral darks (0)
- 15: New contributor (0)
- 17: A short intro (0)
- 18: Oil Painting Tip Weekly: Inspiration. Don’t have it? Get it!!! (2)
- 19: A few more thoughts about inspiration (2)
- 20: Paint With Me WIP: the nude (9)
- 21: New contributor (0)
- 21: Welcome (0)
- 25: Drawing - Introduction (1)
- 27: Studying Art - Diary (1) (6)
September 2007 (4)
- 13: Bill Whitaker, ABS, and Miles Mathis (8)
- 15: Vermeer (3)
- 25: Just upgraded (0)
- 26: The Artist and the Emperor (3)
August 2007 (4)
- 04: Away (2)
- 13: And back now (8)
- 24: Bruce MacEvoy has a blog (0)
- 25: Zero tolerance (3)
July 2007 (11)
- 03: Still life (3)
- 03: Work continues (0)
- 04: Composition and hierarchy (0)
- 06: Now with cherries (2)
- 09: Blogversary! (8)
- 12: Almost finished (3)
- 21: The schmear (8)
- 22: Hopper (2)
- 22: George Inness (7)
- 30: Behold the Man (2)
- 30: Duane Keiser keeps on making great paintings (0)
June 2007 (6)
- 23: Critique of “When Work is Done,” by Dorothea von Eckhardt (8)
- 23: Making your own paint (0)
- 24: Excellent article in New Criterion (0)
- 24: A new work in progress (0)
- 25: More work on the blackberry painting (2)
- 30: Keeping at it (2)
May 2007 (3)
- 07: Critique of “Discovery” by Phil Holt (3)
- 27: If you are interested in silverpoint (2)
- 28: History of the frame (1)
April 2007 (6)
- 12: Fallow (0)
- 15: Details of a Van Eyck painting (2)
- 16: Art “experts” on the internet (11)
- 21: Critique? (2)
- 21: Gallery page (0)
- 22: Munsell resource (0)
March 2007 (10)
- 02: Linear perspective (8)
- 03: Contrast perspective (0)
- 04: Shadow perspective (0)
- 05: Edge perspective (0)
- 11: (0)
- 15: Blacks (4)
- 16: Size perspective (0)
- 16: Making egg tempera (6)
- 20: (0)
- 30: Oil priming (18)
February 2007 (12)
- 04: Ultramarine in tempera and oil (3)
- 05: I guess I’ll start an oil painting while the egg tempera dries (0)
- 07: Ten thousand (4)
- 14: It’s been a difficult week (20)
- 23: Getting back to normal (4)
- 24: Art books I’m reading (0)
- 24: Egg tempera is not a fussy medium (2)
- 24: Articles (1)
- 25: Recession perspective (2)
- 25: Atmospheric perspective (0)
- 26: Overlap perspective (0)
- 27: Texture perspective (0)
January 2007 (21)
- 01: Just say no to “scumble” (1)
- 03: The persistence of vision (1)
- 04: Snapshots (6)
- 07: Mixing dark yellows (2)
- 08: The core palette (8)
- 09: Disegno and colore (0)
- 11: Complementary mixing pairs: burnt sienna and ultramarine blue (0)
- 12: Complementary mixing pairs: pyrol ruby and viridian (0)
- 13: Color swatches (2)
- 13: Note (2)
- 14: More swatches (4)
- 15: Ornaments (0)
- 15: The smell of earths (0)
- 16: The fuglies (1)
- 19: Dead coloring (2)
- 21: Adam (4)
- 26: Site update (2)
- 26: How to prepare a wooden palette (17)
- 27: More upgrade woes (0)
- 28: Wow. (7)
- 30: Alkyd mediums (6)
December 2006 (26)
- 03: The new and improved “All the Strange Hours” (2)
- 04: Goals (2)
- 04: Dust (0)
- 04: Music to paint by—Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” (1)
- 04: Reference photos (2)
- 05: Palettes (0)
- 05: Becky (0)
- 05: Wordpress rocks! (0)
- 06: Light for the Artist 3 (0)
- 07: The classical palette (0)
- 08: The Velázquez palette (3)
- 09: A small oil painting demo (2)
- 12: The color theory palette (2)
- 13: Duane Keiser (0)
- 15: Light for the Artist 4 (5)
- 16: The kitchen sink palette (7)
- 18: Keeping oil paint fresh (5)
- 19: Notebook (0)
- 20: How to restore a synthetic brush (0)
- 21: Just as good (3)
- 22: Rogier van der Weyden (0)
- 23: Doak’s cristallo medium (5)
- 24: Jan Gossaert (0)
- 27: Limited palettes (0)
- 29: Oil painting without solvents (32)
- 31: 2006 (0)
November 2006 (15)
- 01: I did a lot of complaining about bad use of chroma (0)
- 07: Egg tempera (2)
- 08: Never use a brush smaller than your head (0)
- 08: You say “sfumah-to,” I say “sfumay-to” (0)
- 14: Some more thoughts on egg tempera (0)
- 16: Payne’s grey (0)
- 16: Hilltop (0)
- 22: Edges (0)
- 22: The Zone (0)
- 22: Leaves (2)
- 22: Tad Spurgeon (0)
- 25: Light for the Artist 1 (0)
- 25: Leyendecker (0)
- 26: Light for the Artist 2 (3)
- 29: Cleaning brushes on my shirt (2)
October 2006 (13)
- 01: Glazing (25)
- 01: A hottie (0)
- 03: Madonna with the Child and Two Angels (0)
- 04: Practical Color Mixing 1: Value (4)
- 05: Brendan (3)
- 08: Battle scenes (0)
- 12: Heraldic contrast (3)
- 14: Practical Color Mixing 2: Hue (0)
- 15: Le Café Marly (0)
- 20: Archival permanence (0)
- 24: Getting back to drawing the figure (0)
- 24: Jan van Eyck (2)
- 31: Practical color mixing 3: chroma (4)
September 2006 (17)
- 04: Three ways to use oil painting mediums (0)
- 04: Can we talk about color? (0)
- 05: Miles Mathis (10)
- 05: Update on Robert Doak (1)
- 07: More on color (5)
- 08: Technorati (2)
- 08: Surfacing (2)
- 11: Politics (0)
- 13: Latest in the “stuff stuck on the wall” series (4)
- 14: Pigments, paints, and color mixing wheels (4)
- 14: Jacob Collins (1)
- 16: Online workshop: Renaissance Italian painting (3)
- 20: How to get oil paint to dry quickly (26)
- 23: Overcast (0)
- 24: Renaissance layering (3)
- 29: Bottle of oil and blue glass (3)
- 30: Sorry for the low frequency of posts lately (2)
August 2006 (28)
- 01: Pthalo pigments (9)
- 02: Rooster bar (0)
- 02: Real gesso (6)
- 02: Work in progress (0)
- 03: Work in progress (0)
- 03: Comment spam (4)
- 04: Student grade paint (0)
- 04: Work in progress (0)
- 05: Upward (0)
- 05: Wet sanding (1)
- 05: Studio Products (0)
- 06: Making gesso, part 1 (2)
- 06: Fallen (0)
- 07: Communion (0)
- 07: Oil on copper (7)
- 08: Making gesso, part 2 (0)
- 09: Eiffel flashing (0)
- 10: Studio safety and oil painting (10)
- 10: “Turpentine” (0)
- 12: Torn (0)
- 12: May be some time (1)
- 16: Work in progress (5)
- 20: 73% more convenient than regular oil paint! (16)
- 23: The most influential painter you’ve never heard of (2)
- 23: Olden (0)
- 28: So you’ve decided to try oil painting (4)
- 30: It’s killing me (0)
- 30: Rocks (0)
July 2006 (50)
- 09: Blue Jeans (2)
- 09: The title of this web log (0)
- 09: Dun Aongas (0)
- 09: Robert Doak (0)
- 09: Self portrait (0)
- 09: I know (0)
- 09: Artist quotes (0)
- 09: Oil painting medium (0)
- 09: Paul (0)
- 09: Silly art terminology rant (0)
- 09: I have to confess (0)
- 10: I used to be able to call myself a “self-taught artist” (0)
- 10: Photoshop greyscale conversion (2)
- 11: Best portrait ever (2)
- 11: Artist quotes 2 (0)
- 11: Principles of organic form 1 (0)
- 12: The Three Graces (0)
- 12: Heaven and Earth (0)
- 12: Boot (0)
- 12: Karin Jurick (1)
- 13: Recommended reading (0)
- 14: Principles of organic form 2 (0)
- 14: Vertigo (0)
- 14: Principles of organic form 3 (0)
- 15: A typical book on drawing or painting (0)
- 15: Describing color (0)
- 15: Additive and subractive color mixing (0)
- 16: Mike (1)
- 16: Dun Aongas 2 (0)
- 16: Carrowmore (0)
- 16: Inishmore (0)
- 17: Tempera grassa 1 (9)
- 17: I wrote (0)
- 18: Winter’s end (0)
- 18: By the time he was my age (0)
- 20: Tempera grassa 2 (0)
- 20: Solitude (0)
- 21: Recommended reading (0)
- 21: This photo (1)
- 22: This book (2)
- 22: Complementary mixing pairs: raw sienna and ultramarine blue (0)
- 23: Complementary mixing pairs: cadmium red and cadmium green (0)
- 23: The burren (0)
- 25: I know that all of my readers are deeply interested in pigments (0)
- 26: Steve and Zack (0)
- 27: Neactan (0)
- 27: Whites (4)
- 29: The Online Photographer (0)
- 30: The other side (0)
- 30: The Flemish method (14)

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