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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
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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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
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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, 2021
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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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
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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, 2021
- 4 min
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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- Feb 2, 2021
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The Anatomy of Gray
I had a hard time with gray. I always thought it was spelled grey. I looked it up and Google says grey or gray depending on where you are...
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