Author: 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 ...

What is meant by the phrase ‘oiling up the canvas”? I give a brief explanation here of how I add chalk to a mixture of Gamblin’s Gel (G-Gel) a...

… THE color of light and the color of shadow relate to each other. If this relationship is off the reality of the scene is marred. Getting shadow color ri...

…. SOME may wonder why I bother to use a full-color, full-value under painting. And the answer is I usually don’t. But when a complex subject presen...

… PAINTING can be a complicated process with many steps leading to a great painting. One important step for most painters is the preliminary sketch. Some ...

THE final video about making a preparatory sketch.

THERE are very few things I like to paint more than trees. There is something just as mysterious and inviting about a cluster of trees as there is about a lone ...

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SINCE I paint alla prima I usually let my paint dry naturally without any additives. More often I will add walnut oil to slow drying if I need a two day paintin...

Getting thick strokes of paint to dry can be a challenge. This video shows several ways to do it. Please note that cobalt drier is toxic–as are m...