Month: January 2017

Dead brush

The poor old thing finally gave up the ghost.  I knocked the Pearl brand in my Brush Reference, but this old brush kept its usefulness for a long time.  The once mighty Pearl Paints has been gone for–what?–5 years. I placed the brush alone on the palette for this photo.  I was using it on the…

Studio journal 1/18/16

Sub Rosa, the unfinished painting on the easel, is moving along.  The underpainting is nearly done.  The white-seeming ground visible throughout the painting is actually a middle-ish gray tone.  Compare it with your eyes to the dab of white in the middle of the palette. Sub Rosa is based on photos taken during last year’s Festival…

Studio journal 1/14/17

I didn’t plan it, but yesterday I worked on two paintings of my son John.  I finished the larger painting on the easel, John Hudson and His Father.  It’s based on a photo of John when he was a wee lad.  The smaller painting, John in a White Shirt, is based on a recent photo.  After taking…