Skip to content
Brad Teare
The Poetry of Thick Paint
  • About
  • Archive
  • Galleries
  • Blog
  • Woodcuts
  • Newest Work

Category: Uncategorized

Uncategorized

359: A New Chapter, and a Mentorship Group

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Brad Teare

—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...

Uncategorized

04 Loading the brush, working with the 9 value grayscale

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

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

Uncategorized

03 Loading the brush

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

… 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...

Uncategorized

02 Intro to thick paint

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

A short video describing how I work with thick paint.

Uncategorized

01 Thick paint

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

– 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...

Uncategorized

7 Value zones

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

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...

Uncategorized

6 Painting from a sketch 1 of 2

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

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...

Uncategorized

5 The nine value grayscale

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

.. 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...

Uncategorized

20 Using a full value underpainting

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

…. 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...

Uncategorized

19 The color of shadow and Monet’s envelope

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

Uncategorized

18 The color of shadows

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

… 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...

Uncategorized

17 Oiling up the canvas

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

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...

Uncategorized

16 TECHNIQUE AND CREATIVITY

Posted on February 3, 2021 by 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 ...

Uncategorized

15 Smoothing a canvas

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

Uncategorized

14 CORRECTING A FAILED PAINTING

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

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...

Uncategorized

13 The 5 value zones

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

Posts navigation

1 2 … 7 Next »

274 East 200 North
Providence, Utah, USA 84332
bradteare@gmail.com
(435) 232-1863

  • About
  • Archive
  • Galleries
  • Blog
  • Woodcuts
  • Newest Work
Brad Teare - Yellowstone Majesty, 30x30 inches
6-minute documentary.
© 2023 Brad Teare
Powered by WordPress | Theme: Graphy by Themegraphy