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The painting I most recently finished began as a practice painting for a portion of a work in progress, Anguished Spirit (Trail of Tears). I drew the composition in full size some weeks back, and decided to paint the lower … Continue reading

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When under painting  shadow, I like to consider the shaded area and lay up a wash of Cobalt Blue or Ultramarine Blue in them, especially when painting people. In this particular painting a Cobalt Blue for the shaded area will … Continue reading

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In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is–as it physically is…if one says red and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds~Joseph Albers Colors … Continue reading

Lynn Burton has sent more paintings to highlight. In the few paintings that represent cowboys, he did his favorite thing to get art ideas. He photographed off of the television while the movement was in action. In other words, he … Continue reading

Not only was Gustave Courbet’s class-conscious art subject matter alien to critics, but his uncompromising and painting technique, evolved to treat rural themes, was mostly immortalizing the common, middle and laboring classes of his home town…people with whom he was … Continue reading

Part of the twentieth century rebellion against tradition was turning away from continuing to parody the master artists before them. An art statement emphatically made in 1919 by Marcel Duchamp when he presented his Mona Lisa with a moustache and … Continue reading

Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection will conclude a national tour at he Museum of Fine Arts Houston. This is one of the world’s most spectacular private collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings—including … Continue reading

The young tewnty-one-year-old, Norman Percy Rockwell, art editor of a small nondescript boys’ magazine sat nervously in the office of Walter H. Dower, art editor of America’s dominant magazine at the time, The Saturday Evening Post. He’d come from New … Continue reading

My favorite medium is acrylics.  Why?  Acrylics are like no other medium.  They can mimic most all other painting mediums on the market.   You will learn to appreciate the scope of this delightful medium after testing all of the … Continue reading

In 1934 the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture was established.  The main function of “the Section”, as it was later to be known, was to select quality art to decorate  walls of buildings with murals.  Unlike the Mexican muralists, … Continue reading