The Delegate is 36″ x 48″. It still has a way to go. It’s another painting with an annoying surface. I’ve written a lot recently about painting surfaces, I know. I bought a large roll of canvas two years ago, which enables me to monitor how changes to the painting surface can affect performance. All the…
Category: Turpentine diaries
Main Street, materials, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Turpentine diaries
Turpentine diaries 7/30/17
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Turpentine diaries 7/23/17
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•Break is finally done. I struggled with the surface from the beginning which resulted in more sessions than usual. I won’t bore you with the details; the surface isn’t awful–it’s perfectly sound–but it’s not to my liking. Not nearly smooth enough and like any rough-surfaced canvas, it eats brushes. I like surfaces that are smooth and…
materials, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Tips and Studies, Turpentine diaries
Turpentine diaries 7/16/17
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•Main Street, materials, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Turpentine diaries
Turpentine diaries 7/9/17
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•Grand Army of the Republic Highway is part of a series called Main Street, which is about, well, Main Street in out town. The town is a vacation destination and things happen downtown all of the time–festivals, street parties, concerts. I am adding pages to the site about my current series, Playhouse Square, and Main…
materials, Paintings, Studio Corner, Turpentine diaries
Turpentine diaries 7/8/17
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Turpentine diaries 7/6/17
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•Cleveland, materials, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Turpentine diaries
Turpentine diaries 6/25/17
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•The Girl in the Lavender Dress, another painting in the Playhouse Square series, is nearly finished and today’s was only the sixth session, which is fast for me. You can see in the right background two canvases that I recently prepared. Both are 36″ x 48,” which is the same size as Girl in the Lavender…