97 Thick Paint in 53 languages
I was thrilled that Google recently made universal translation available for blogs. I immediately added the button to my site. You can find it at the ...
Author: Brad Teare
98: Natural gifts vs. acquired gifts
THERE IS A POPULAR THEORY that has been around for a while called the 10,000 hour theory. In his book Outliers author Malcolm Gladwell write...
99 How to sell paintings Pt 1
SELLING PAINTINGS is not easy in the best of times. But there’s one sure way to sell paintings; create paintings other people value. Note that I emph...
100 Painting with paint
I‘VE USED THE EXPRESSION paint with paint many times in this blog. What I mean is the paint brush should be a means to apply paint not a means t...
101 Palette knife en plein air
LATELY I’VE BEEN painting en plein air with the palette knife. I don’t use the palette knife for the entire painting. At the right you can see a pai...
102 The long view
I WAS RECENTLY READING a book about the landscapes of Gustav Klimt. I was intrigued to discover that he often used a pair of opera glasses or even a t...
103 Great painting book
MY BIRTHDAY FALLS NEAR THANKSGIVING and my favorite gift is an art book. This year I received Leconte Stewart Masterworks. Leconte was a huge influenc...
104 How to learn to paint
I RECEIVED a few emails lately accusing me of teaching people to paint by numbers (presumably a critique of measuring grays and the zone system). Noth...
105 Abstract painting
I‘M STARTING A NEW PROJECT for painters interested in design and the art of abstract painting. I will be exploring the art of composition&n...
106: Best chalk for painting
ONE OF THE primary ingredients for thick paint is chalk, otherwise known as Calcium Carbonate. The thicker I paint the more chalk I use. So it is impo...
107 How to sell paintings Part 2
IN MY PREVIOUS entry on how to sell paintings I wrote about quality as a means to sales. I recently purchased and watched all 4 hours of Eric Rhoads’ Art Market...
108: The Art of Sketching
IT’S BEEN A WHILE since I’ve made a video but I wanted to share some of the fun I’ve been having lately with sketching. Not only is sketching ...
109 Selling Art
AS I THOUGHT ABOUT how to to get the funds to run an ad campaign as suggested by Eric Rhoads I immediately thought of my woodcuts. For a decade I was prima...
110 Who we are
In 1981 my friend Joe Hebert invited me to join him in an ascent of Devil’s Bedstead, a prominent peak in the Sawtooth Mountain range in Southern Idaho. T...
111 New book about paintings
I was thrilled when I recently published my book Persistence of Vision via Blurb, one of the world’s premier on-demand book publishers. It was o...
112 Full value, full color underpainting
I have talked about doing an underpainting in other posts. Some have written and asked why do a full value, full color underpainting when so many pain...