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Studio housekeeping is a mundane topic, but important. When I started painting Ezy Boy, I  could not remove the tops from some of my tubes of oil paint. The paint had dried and hardened. There are several ways to open them. You can draw the flame of a match or cigarette lighter over the tops [...]

I have been so absorbed in this painting that I have neglected other responsibilities. I get away from it for a couple of days and balance my life a bit. I highly recommend this to artists and writers like myself who easily submerge in an alternate universe of their own making. When I return to [...]

Most people think of all oil painting as the plastering on of thick gobs of of pigment with heavy-bristled brushes or with palette knives in an “Impasto” technique. Certainly this is often so and with wonderful effect. I am using some of that technique in this painting. However, some of the Renaissance masters did the [...]