We are often told that galleries are looking for a cohesive body of work. But what does this really mean? And how do we achieve this? Too often artists believe this means that they must paint for an audience and produce works that are guided by the market place or current trends. In fact, nothing […]
What is a Cohesive Body of Work?
Looking For Feedback On Your Work?
Group Critique Fall Session Group Critique offers intermediate to advanced painters working in any style or medium the opportunity to be part of a small, supportive, collegial online group to share, discuss, and give and receive feedback on our work, facilitated by Deborah Paris. Art is often a solitary pursuit. Finding a collegial group of like […]
Ned Jacob (1938-2025)
My first teacher and mentor Ned Jacob died this week. I met Ned in 1992 at a workshop in Maine. My husband Steve and I chose that week because it fit our vacation schedule. I confess I did not know about Ned or his work, but I was trying to reignite my nascent desire to […]
Mixing Blues For Skies
When mixing colors for skies we concern ourselves with the three attributes of color: value, temperature and chroma. As we know from Carlson’s Theory of Angles, the sky will generally be the lightest value in the landscape–a range of values actually. The value of the sky grades from lightest at the horizon to darkest at […]
Glazing
Glazing is one of several methods of applying oil paint that are called “indirect painting”techniques. The term “indirect” simply means that the painting is built up in layers which are allowed to dry before successive layers are added. Glazing is a technique which consists of applying thin layers of transparent color over either transparent or […]