TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Fun with Pencils!
This month Annie and I were scheduled to exhibit at Illuxcon in PA. In the months running up to the show we both had been working on a lot of personal projects and had a lot of new work we were excited to share. Alas, we ended up missing it after coming down with some school-related sickness. So, today I thought I'd share some of the pencil drawings that missed the show. They are from…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Some Quick Mark-Making in Oil
December 7, 2023 - I made a couple new short videos of a little mark-making in oil on this new panel by Artefex. This is their smoothest panel yet, a lead alkyd oil-primed extra-fine cotton canvas mounted to an aluminum panel. It’s such a nice surface to work on. A perfect combination of smoothness, tooth and absorbency for this reductive kind of painting. It’s honestly my new fave. This quick painting was done using oil and spatulas, paint shapers, sables and mops. This is generally how I start my paintings. Whether they’re figurative or abstract, I basically start the underpainting in this way and the initial marks inform what happens next. I like a surface to be smooth but not too smooth, with a little bit of absorbency and tooth. Plus, with their ACM panel substrate, it’s rigid,…
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