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01 Thick paint

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

– FOR the last few years for at least once a month I browsed the internet for articles about Thick Paint or Painting with Thick Paint finding no entries t...

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02 Intro to thick paint

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

A short video describing how I work with thick paint.

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03 Loading the brush

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

… ONE of the most critical aspects of thick painting, and the most mystifying, is loading the brush. Using thick strokes of color with just one solid pigm...

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04 Loading the brush, working with the 9 value grayscale

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

There are lots of ways to load a brush. This is one way I have found to get lush strokes of broken color.

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5 The nine value grayscale

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

.. One afternoon I was looking out a window and noticed a small speck of dirt on the glass. I discovered if I closed one eye and positioned the speck over the s...

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6 Painting from a sketch 1 of 2

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

In order to paint with spontaneity you have to do a lot of planning. Trying to inject spontaneity without proper planning is inviting disaster. My approach is t...

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7 Value zones

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

AS I’ve become more adept at the technical aspects of applying paint I have become more and more concerned about composition. It is as if learning to appl...

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8: Field effects

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

WHEN I load a brush I want to include as much variation as possible. This includes adding complementary color, variations of value, as well as color schemes suc...

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9 Painting from a sketch 2 of 2

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

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10 Tools to see the big picture

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

OCCASIONALLY strength can be a weakness. For instance, sometimes we see too well and actually need something to simplify the amazing visual acuity mother n...

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11 Seeing the big picture

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

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12: Correcting a Failed Painting

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

... ALTHOUGH I love thick paint one of the disadvantages is that once the paint is dry it is quite difficult to make changes. I’ve struggled with a variet...

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13 The 5 value zones

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14 CORRECTING A FAILED PAINTING

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

ALTHOUGH I love thick painting one of the disadvantages is that once the paint is dry it is quite difficult to make changes. I’ve struggled with a variety...

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15 Smoothing a canvas

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

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16 TECHNIQUE AND CREATIVITY

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

… IN the course of this blog I realized I have offered a lot of formulas and recipes for making art. I worry about the impression this might give because ...

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