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—AS MANY of you know, my wife, Debra Teare, passed away four years ago. For those who have experienced such a loss, you know such trauma activates unexpected ch...

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...

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...

.. 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...

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

… 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...

A short video describing how I work with thick paint.

– 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...

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 ...

THE final video about making a preparatory sketch.

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...

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...