The Nerdrum Museum
A comprehensive collection and an exquisite presentation, showing full paintings and details. My compliments to the website architects! Launched April 8th, 2012. Visit The Nerdrum Museum
Cleopatra
The first modestly large, layered-with-subtext, multi-figure painting was completed in the new studio on March 9th, 2012. I am very pleased. Finally.
pLog Pith IX
First, find the structure, then find the skin. And never underestimate the power and beauty of a one inch wide hog bristle brush. —pre-dishwashing thoughts after a long rewarding day in the studio.
La Sfida della Semplicita’
Tonight Giulia and I were admiring and discussing what I think is the nearly completed first great painting forged in the new studio. I said to her: It’s the unexpected simplicity in this painting that I like so much—it’s the most from the least—made of simple improvisations I could have never planned. That’s the trick [...]
Helpful Video on Photographing Artwork
A video that a friend passed on to me about a year ago. Still helpful.
“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?