A link to the newspaper story in the Star has been doing the rounds on Facebook, producing an amusing comment from one peeved visitor who said “these painters are the art world’s equivalent of the tea party”. Didn’t Donald Trump say something like “I don’t care what you say about me, just spell my name [...]
The Star have put an article about the New Romantic Figure exhibit and the resurgence of contemporary figure painting into the paper. Good stuff. Please will you visit the article online and recommend it on the Facebook link at the bottom of the page so the editors will cover more articles about figurative painting?
It’s truly an extraordinary experience to see room after room of great art in the Louvre, although despite the exceptional quality of the huge collection of ancient sculpture from Rome and Greece, the wonderful Egyptian antiquities, and the splendid decoration of the former palace itself, it was the sight of two damaged fresco paintings stripped [...]
I have no photographs to share from today’s Pre Raphaelite adventures, because once again the paintings we saw were concealed under thick glass, preventing me from getting decent pictures and making close examination difficult. This time we were at the Tate Britain in London on what seems to be becoming a fairly regular pilgrimage for [...]
Two layers of paint on the legs have given them some solidity, but I’m not yet satisfied with them; once I’ve applied a glaze coat of Ceramic White the color will match the upper half of the figure. The jug has been painted with a thin coat of very light blue, cleaning up some messiness [...]
This has been quite a week, including an unexpected visit to the hospital for a little investigation into my heart that turned out well, showing that my ticker is strong and pretty much ok for now. I’ll spare the details, but the doctor was alarmed by my extremely high cholesterol and shortness of breath, so [...]
On Saturday night we went to the opening reception of the 100th California Art Club gold medal exhibit at the Pasadena Museum of California Art for a very enjoyable evening with many of California’s finest landscape and figurative painters, including Jeremy Lipking, Steve Huston, and Richard Schmidt (who literally wrote the book on California landscape [...]
I came across this unusual survey of what people like in paintings. There are some surprises here, including the difference in taste found in different countries, and the price that people are prepared to spend on art.
This has been a day of almost finishing. I’ve added a little Iron Oxide Orange to the flames, making them look nicely fiery, and almost concluding the work on the Magician painting with the exception of a little lightening of the right arm. I added a light touch of the same colour to the right [...]
Working with wet white again, I’ve blended some Burnt Sienna into the feet for shadows, with a touch of Cadmium Red to give them a little warmth. I’m thinking that they should get dirtier because the Magician must have walked there somehow, so she should have mud on her, which I’ll add once this layer’s [...]
