Small paintings (this painting is 30″ x 40″) always take longer than I expect. Starting, I intend to keep it simple, but I’m always discovering more things to explore or problems to solve. I’m only successful with finishing studies quickly when I restrict myself to monochrome. Who knows when this painting will be done. I…
Category: Turpentine diaries
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Turpentine diaries 9/23/18
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Turpentine diaries 9/16/18
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•Keep Talking is scudding along; still unfinished, obviously, but it’s moving closer. In this photo, Keep Talking, which is 36″ x 48″, shares the easel with a canvas I recently prepared. You can see the grid on the paper fixed to the canvas. When the drawing is finished, I’ll transfer it to the canvas with…
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Turpentine diaries 8/26/18
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Turpentine diaries 8/19/18
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•For today’s session with Lunch Alone, in addition to my usual medium, I used ‘flavored’ turpentine for my solvent: turpentine with some homemade drying oil, plus drops of Courtrai siccative. Readers of my blog know I post a lot about mediums and other arcane elements of art making. If you want to start experimenting with mediums,…
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Turpentine diaries 8/18/18
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Turpentine journal 8/13/18
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•Here is my first session with Keep Talking. Today, I just threw paint onto the canvas without worrying overmuch about details, although I was–as always–careful to preserve the drawing. It’s risky to share such raw, unfinished paintings but I think there’s enough that you can get the gist of it. Keep Talking is 36″ x…
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Turpentine diaries 7/22/18
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•I used my homemade drying oil in recent sessions with Down on Prospect Avenue. I substitute the oil for black oil in my medium recipe. Large paintings (Down on Prospect Avenue is 44″ x 60″) have issues that smaller ones don’t have. Matching tones previously used, to name just one. Anyway, it’s getting there. It’s…