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In today’s segment on black or maybe more truthfully, today I learned, peach black isn’t a warm black. Who knew? Firstly, color has some...
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Aug 21, 20214 min read
I Woke from a Dream
I had trouble falling asleep as I’m wont to do the night before a full moon or two. Something about the pull of gravity I suspect. I fell...
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Jul 20, 20212 min read
Building Paintings
I used to play a bit part in erecting buildings. Well, I started out disassembling old buildings to recycle the doors, windows and...
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Jul 14, 20212 min read
Learning to See
In realism art, one of the important features is to understand the visual realities of nature… geometric perspective, light and shadow,...
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Jun 30, 20215 min read
The Grapes of Wrath
I’m teaching a still life painting course, online, this summer, and it’s a new course for me. Still life, right, not just flowers, or so...
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Jun 25, 20213 min read
The Shape of Things to Come
Our brains work in mysterious but predictable ways. When faced with a traumatic situation, our brain bypasses our verbal frontal bits and...
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Jun 12, 20212 min read
Light and Colorful
There are only a few things a painter can control to create the illusion of reality. It’s a lot of things about which to make decisions,...
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May 23, 20214 min read
Getting Real
Art, in effect, is apparently just beginning, and there hasn’t been any art yet, according to artist Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). I,...
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Apr 27, 20213 min read
Mix and Match... or Choose your Choice
I can paint impasto (thick) over a thin grisailles (grey toned canvas) or verdaccio imprimatura (green toned canvas) indirect painting...
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Apr 24, 20214 min read
About Being Transparent
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of new information I learn about painting, everyday. Maybe, because, I’m teaching or just...
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Apr 13, 20213 min read
Shadow Boxing
I varnished two paintings today, along with doing some household chores, and now I can return to writing this blog post; before, I settle...
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Apr 8, 20212 min read
The Cutting Edge
I really want to talk about Non-fungible tokens (NFT’s), but instead I’m going to talk about edges. There are only so many things that we...
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Apr 3, 20213 min read
Glazed Over...
In oil painting there are basically two approaches, direct and indirect. Direct painting, also called alla prima (all at once) is...
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Mar 24, 20213 min read
Keeping Things in Perspective
Perspective can be a point of view, relative importance, the art of drawing things on a two dimensional surface to appear as though they...
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Mar 15, 20214 min read
Please, Pass the Bole
Gold, Clay, and Purple People Eaters Nothing fogs my brain more than a dive down the rabbit hole into color. Prismatic, Spectral,...
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Mar 10, 20214 min read
Blinded by the Light
My girlfriend sent me a quote, or meme, or one of those sayings you see posted on social media. It goes something like this: “3 am is the...
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Mar 3, 20213 min read
Super Elastic Bubble Plastic
Who knows of what the super elastic bubble plastic was made? That’s the point really. Silly putty is a similar conundrum, although, I...
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Feb 25, 20215 min read
Naked Person!
There is an elephant in the room, or maybe it’s the 800 pound gorilla. Both are euphemisms... the first is the glaringly obvious problem...
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Feb 16, 20215 min read
Watching More Paint Dry
Oil paint doesn’t dry by evaporation. It oxidizes. Now, on the surface, it’s a really easy concept to grasp, in general... Oxidation is...
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Feb 9, 20214 min read
It’s Either Black or White
Black and white combined make gray. Any color mixed with another color also makes a gray, and right in the middle it’s called achromatic...
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