Category: Uncategorized

– 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...

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.

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...

... 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...

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.