RGH Oils is a small manufacturer that promotes its wide-range of lead-based whites. I think that is smart. There is an opportunity here for small suppliers to fill the gap left as the larger companies cut production–and raise prices to lurid heights. After using the paints from my first order (shipped instantly, by the way),…
I placed my first order with RGH Paints. They are a small outfit that prides itself on their extensive line of lead white paint. They offer flake white in an assortment of binders and sizes. I ordered a small tube of the cold-pressed version along with a few other colors. If their stuff is any good, that’s a big deal now that some of the big boys have throttled back production of lead paint. As most oil painters know, lead white is the most valuable and useful paint. After I give their stuff a proper workout, I’ll update my Oil Paint Brand reference.
Cleveland, Galleries, Reviews, Uncategorized
Review: 43rd Student Show The Galleries at CSU
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•This is my second review of a Cleveland State U. student exhibition. Like last year’s show, the quality is student-grade but compares well with student shows at higher profile schools, like the Cleveland Institute of Art. The biggest difference between the two is that students at the latter produce more formal conceptional pieces. Also like last year’s show there…
Bio, Paintings, Studio Corner
In the studio 4/27/14
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•I’ve been painting one color for several days–gray: neutral gray, cool gray, warm gray, off-white, and mud. Lately I’ve used Michael Harding lead white.which is very good and cheaper than Blockx and Old Holland. I’m well into a cycle of large paintings (large for me, that is). Most of them are into the 4′ x…
Books, Reviews, Uncategorized
Gabriel García Márquez
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•Gabriel García Márquez died last Thursday. The great writer was 87. The Colombian writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Marquez was a leading practitioner of magic realism, which is style that incorporates fantastic or magical elements into otherwise normal situations. That is a poor label because is assumes that reality is a known.…
Paintings, Studio Corner, Uncategorized, Vermilion, OH
In the studio 4/20/2014
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•Bio, Vermilion, OH
Happy Easter 2014
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•Art Museums, Uncategorized
Art museums and technology
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•In their fierce competition for the vast pool of entertainment dollars, art museums are attempting to use technology to reinvent themselves. The theme-park-ization of museums is replete with interactive attractions and high-tech gewgaws. On the surface this sounds, if not exactly winning, reasonable. After all, what could be more natural for our (so-called) cultural leaders than to provide technological leadership as well.…
Bio, Drawings, Paintings, Studio Corner
In the studio 2014-4-13
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•Bio, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Vermilion, OH
In the studio 4/6/2014
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•Two Cakes is 48″ x 48″. Unfinished, of course, as are most of the paintings shown in the “In the studio” posts. The left-side of the small container holds my standard medium: cold-pressed linseed oil+turpentine, + drops of copal varnish and coutrai drier. When I want firm, and fast-drying passages, I put the same mix…
Shop Talk, Tips and Studies, Uncategorized
Glop, goo, and jelly
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•I’ve never understood the fascination with thick, viscous oil painting mediums. Used for special effects, such mediums are perfectly fine, but for everyday work they are completely useless. I scratch my head whenever I see recipes based wholly on balsams or thickened oils–goo. Closely related to the goos are the jelly-like mediums–the glops. There are a…
Bio, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Uncategorized
Painting: Keith in Front of a White Chair
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•Bio, Uncategorized, Vermilion, OH
Ice and snow be gone!
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•Bio, Paintings, Studio Corner, Vermilion, OH
In the studio 3/30/14
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•Here is a photo of some recent work. The top painting is my son John aboard The Betty Jane. I applied paint to the large, middle painting or the first time yesterday. I spent the two previous days working on the drawing exclusively. It’s called Dinner in Trenton. The bottom painting is a small-format version…