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10 Things… I Remember About Planning Paintings

Gregory Manchess

-Gregory Manchess Since it's all about me...You may notice that I changed the title to 'Things I Remember", realizing that these things come from my own notes about my painting career. I'd rather avoid the preaching when possible. So the rest of these post topics will focus on my selfish perspective, and hopefully you'll be able to take something away from it to use. 1. Start small One word: thumbnails. I remember the day I…

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Painting Process Breakdown

Robert Hunt

November 12, 2025 - This month I thought I would share a little painting process. This is a painting of Arctic Explorer Frank Worsley* that I did as preliminary work as part of a project I'm working on. I start by doing a very loose sketch to lay out the composition I do the same to rough in the position of the facial features I start adding some transitional passing values and modulate the colors in the drawing. most of this will be covered up. and a little more... Making some corrections, introducing color. I am using burnt  sienna and ultramarine blue as the basis for the drawing, adding titanium white, cad orange, terra rosa, viridian, cobalt blue, cad yellow pale, yellow ochre pale, alizarin and cad red. No medium other than Gamsol. Painted on 14x16  gessoed  dibond panel.…

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