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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...

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...

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...

…. 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...

… 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...

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...

… 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 ...

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...