Month: January 2014

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I don’t follow pop music like I did when I was a teenager. The iTunes playlists I listen to while painting have very few artists that weren’t popular by, say, the 80’s. But I recently added several songs by PJ Harvey to my playlists. I discovered her while listening to ‘Tom Waits’ radio on iTunes. I especially like The Last Living Rose.

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Two recent links will be useful to people interested in the technical aspects of painting. Tad Spurgeon’s site provides a wealth of information about oils. This site describes how to make oil paints.While I haven’t followed the advice of either:-), both have a lot of reference material.

Poem: On and on played they

In the corner of the ruined room,
she was crying,
frightened of herself
and angry at us.

‘Freedom is full of monsters.
Just get out.’

I ran to summer
in the next room,
where the Goes Orchestral band members,
led by the red-haired midget on saxophone,
made intricate, drug-induced patterns on the stage.

On and on played they.
I wish they were more self-critical.

In the studio 1/26/214

Considering today is Keith’s birthday, it’s fitting to be working on paintings for which he posed. Both paintings are almost finished. My wife laughs when I say this because I am notorious for reworking ‘finished’ paintings. I’m liable to pick up a finished work at any time and start in if I see something that…

Awakenings

Do you remember your first encounters with great art? I vividly recall my introduction to certain artists–life-changing discoveries that revolutionized my views about art. The composer Berlioz recalled his introduction to Shakespeare this way: “Shakespeare, coming upon me unawares, struck me like a thunderbolt. The lightning flash of that sublime discovery opened before me at…

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Added Richeson and Grumbacher to the table and updated information about the types of oils used in binders; updated several ratings.