Monday Morning Art School: is this painting finished?
“Best Buds,” oil on canvasboard, 12X16, oil on canvasboard, $1449 framed. On Friday I wrote about a painting I’d been carrying around in the hope of finishing, only to realize that it was already done. That provoked an outpouring of emails. Most of us have had the opposite experience, where we painfully noodle a good …
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Is that painting finished?
Drying Sails, oil on canvas, 9×12, available on my website later this morning. When I’m wondering, “is this painting finished?” the answer is usually yes. I’ve been carrying a small 8×10 around in my backpack for a few weeks, hoping to run into Ken DeWaard so I could ask him if he had a reference …
First world problems are real problems
Black House, 18X24, oil on canvas, Carol L. Douglas I’ve got a student who’s been waiting for a chip for his GM pickup truck for several months. “First world problem,” he says good-humoredly when I ask him about it. I get that he means it as an expression of gratitude that his problems aren’t bigger, …
Monday Morning Art School: most rules of painting are written in sand, not stone
The Logging Truck, 16X20, oil on canvas, available. Rules are meant to be learned-and then, after mastery, some can be broken. A few weeks ago, my plein air class was working on Knox Street in Thomaston. Eric Jacobsen was painting in his own yard nearby. A student asked me the secret to painting bigger canvases. …
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Perfect is the enemy of good
This blog was on Google’s Blogger from 2007 until the present (with a short hiatus during which it was hosted by the Bangor Daily News). Blogger is a simple platform, but in 2021, it suspended support of its RSS web feed. That meant that people could no longer subscribe. After consulting with the usual experts, …