ON MY EASEL TODAY – 5/16/21

On my Easel today – Two Works in Progress (Underpaintings) – RIO FERNANDO, 40″x30″ and LOS CAMPOS del Llano 24″x30.

WORD PAINTINGS #108 – INTO THE DREAMTIME

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25 April 2021 – Llano Quemado, New Mexico – Sitting in front of a blank canvas waiting to make that first brushstroke is exciting-much like opening the first page of a much anticipated book – it is a mystery, a surprise and you never know how it will end ……unless you begin!  Real life is […]

IN THE STUDIO – PREPARING MY CANVASES

5/8/21 (Llano Quemado, N.M.) – A Toned Ground. Preparing to Paint. Mix in aluminum can (not plastic!) – I use Jerry’s Gesso (Artarama), acrylic Payne’s Grey and water – not too thck and not to thin.  It usually takes two coats for a good ground. I like a medium grey.  Apply second coat only after […]

HUICHOL

  Remembering the years when I did a lot of pastel paintings – A Huichol man from Mexico at the International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe many years ago!