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...

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...

I used to play a bit part in erecting buildings. Well, I started out disassembling old buildings to recycle the doors, windows and...

In realism art, one of the important features is to understand the visual realities of nature… geometric perspective, light and shadow,...

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...

Our brains work in mysterious but predictable ways. When faced with a traumatic situation, our brain bypasses our verbal frontal bits and...

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,...

Art, in effect, is apparently just beginning, and there hasn’t been any art yet, according to artist Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). I,...

I can paint impasto (thick) over a thin grisailles (grey toned canvas) or verdaccio imprimatura (green toned canvas) indirect painting...

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of new information I learn about painting, everyday. Maybe, because, I’m teaching or just...

I varnished two paintings today, along with doing some household chores, and now I can return to writing this blog post; before, I settle...

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...

In oil painting there are basically two approaches, direct and indirect. Direct painting, also called alla prima (all at once) is...

Perspective can be a point of view, relative importance, the art of drawing things on a two dimensional surface to appear as though they...

Gold, Clay, and Purple People Eaters Nothing fogs my brain more than a dive down the rabbit hole into color. Prismatic, Spectral,...

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...

Who knows of what the super elastic bubble plastic was made? That’s the point really. Silly putty is a similar conundrum, although, I...

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...

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...

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...