Usually, if I’m trying to alter the drying time of oils, it’s to speed it up to meet a deadline or to make changes over dry paint. But once in a while, like in portraiture or figure painting, it’s nice to flow down the drying time to achieve subtle changes over a longer period of [...]
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December 16th, 2009
Hanson Puthoff 1875 – 1972
Hanson Puthoff had a long career as a painter in Southern California. After art training at the Chicago Art Institute, the Denver School of Fine Art and the Chicago Academy of Fine Art he worked as a mural painter in Peoria, Illinois and was also a sign painter in Denver. In 1903 he arrived in [...]
October 28th, 2008
Fundamentals of Painting
After years of taking and teaching workshops, I’ve come to understand that the fundamentals are important in painting, but are just a means to get you where you want to be with your artwork. As John Carlson says in his book, John Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting, “Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of [...]
