Here is my usual weekly post about what’s cookin’. The top painting is ‘Deb.’ The lower painting isn’t very far advanced but I think you can get a sense of what’s afoot. It’s called ‘Antique Shop.’ To paint this large piece, I had to prop the easel’s cross-box on my knee to keep it from…
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Art Museums, Artists, Cleveland, Paintings, Uncategorized
Return of an Old Friend
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•After a long and (for me) painful absence for conservation, Andrea del Sarto’s The Sacrifice of Isaac is once again on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. del Sarto’s unfinished masterpiece from 1527 is on a massive wooden panel. The painting’s unfinished state opens a window into the artist’s studio, and shows us his working method. The…
Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner
In the studio 3/9/2014
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•Bio, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Uncategorized, Vermilion, OH
In the studio 2/23/2014
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•The large (42″ x 68″), unfinished painting is titled Conversation. The smaller (36″ x 48″) painting, Whispers, was finished yesterday. Two paintings of people talking while outdoors? A coincidence (I think), although I have been surprised in the past on discovering groups of paintings that share the same unplanned theme. A few years ago I was surprised…
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In the studio 2/16/14
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•Here is recent work. The lower painting is from something I saw earlier this winter during my last trip to New York. In the upper painting, “Whispers,” I am using zinc white. Lead white is my preferred white but it is getting scarce and expensive. A 225ml tube of Old Holland cremitz white is $200–on…
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In the studio 2/9/2014
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•Here’s some recent work. This unfinished painting–‘Man and Woman in a Room’-has already undergone several changes. Originally you could see the open door on the left. Then I took out the door. Then I put it back, as you can see here (I think). Initially the wall behind the girl was blank. Then I added…