“The Science of Picture Making”
Annotation Summary for: Notes on the Science of Picture Making by C. J. Holmes published in 1920.
“A Figurative Painter, Literally Speaking”
A time-elapsed evolution of a recent painting, “Knight in an Evening Landscape.”
Where is Odd Nerdrum?
A presentation that is rightly partisan and begs the question: what is the real motive behind the Norwegian government’s prosecution?
Notes on Neo-Megilp
The Sunken Color of Discontent… and how to remedy the problem. Can a change of medium solve this… or is “oiling out” inevitable?
“Oiling Out”
It looks like some learned practical instruction is finally making its way on to YouTube. The trick is finding them. Surprisingly, the keywords “oiling out” produced some interesting results:
Glazing ≠ Luminosity
The truth is: keying up a flesh tone with a near-white color and then glazing over that with a transparent dark (like a raw umber) does not charge the image with an electric-like glow. Instead, the glaze dampens the luminosity and shifts the hue. How strange I thought the contrary to be true. A lapsus? [...]
The Holy Grail of Flesh Tones, Part II: Velazquez
A funny thing happened the other day as I was googling through the web universe in search of greater enlightenment on flesh tones…
Odd Nerdrum’s Ground
I just had a conversation with my Maestro about this tonight… though I have managed to concoct my own “Italian version” of the ground, you can read a super explanation of the actual materials used here on Art Babel.
Scumbles on Shadows and Theories of Relativity
Knowledge or skill is much more easily acquired if one has a definite use for it. —Charles H. Woodbury, N.A. from Painting and the Personal Equation, published in 1919.