Art students frequently struggle over how to start a painting. Once started poorly, a painting is hard to correct. I’ve shared the starting stages of several of my paintings for art students struggling with starting a painting. I expected my previous post about the progress of my new painting, Liberty Avenue, to be the final…
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Liberty Avenue
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Turpentine diaries 10/7/18
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•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…
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Turpentine diaries
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Turpentine diaries 5/27/18
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Turpentine diaries 4/28/18
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•This photo shows my first painting session with Agamemnon and Orestes. I know, I know, a bit high falutin but I am reading Aeschylus’s Eumenides. Agamemnon and Orestes is 44″ x 60.” I mentioned that I prefer white grounds these days, but I am always preparing canvases, which means I have some prepared months ago,…
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Turpentine diaries 4/15/18
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•Last week, I saw one of the better shows that I’ve seen in Cleveland. Global Matrix IV at the Gallery at Cleveland State U contains first-rate prints from contemporary European artists. I plan to review the show later this week after I visit it one more time. Along 4th Street is poking along (ahem), although…
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Turpentine diaries 4/1/18 Easter
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•This is a photo of two paintings I started today. That is, I started applying paint to the canvases today; drawing started several days ago. So, this shows the underpainting where I’m just covering the surface with paint. Both paintings are 30″ x 40.” I’m still using the Utretcht lead white, their Flemish white. It…