There are a lot of people reading this blog every day, and assume that most are artists or students. Would anyone be interested in me posting recipes for mediums, gesso, stretching canvas, etc.? If so, please leave a comment.
OKAY! Here’s one I like that gives a quick-drying, glossy medium:
Ingredients:
1 part copal concentrate
1 part canada balsam
1. Stir copal concentrate into canada balsam until blended
2. Use as is for a painting medium.
3. Dilute with turpentine at a 1:1 ratio of medium to turps.
Bouguereau Study at Arcadia Gallery
This painting was shown at the Boston International Fine Art Show last month. I didn’t get a chance to see the show, but apparently it was hanging on the outside wall of Arcadia’s booth, facing the show’s entrance. The gallery got a call yesterday from a collector whose wife saw it at the show and “fell in love with it.”
It’s getting shipped out today…
Can there be such a thing as an art “crutch?” Does using a system to mix color, or measuring to draw accurately mean we are crippling our growth? Can a person use color well before they can draw well? Should an artist avoid using any tool at their disposal to help them make the best art they can?
I rarely get a chance to spend solid time with either of my older boys, and to get to have a day with my oldest son while heading to the gallery is my idea of perfect. To get to see my latest in the window just tops it off wonderfully.
Bouguereau Study at Arcadia Gallery