An Artist working with oil painting mediums

by admin | Aug 25, 2011 | concepts in painting, Education

I have been working with different oil painting mediums lately with my oil paints. I did the entire series of rural paintings using Liquin, from Windsor Newton, a glazing and fast drying medium. I understand Gamblin, Galkyd Lite is an equal rival for the medium. You...

Captain Bruce Bishop

by admin | Aug 24, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale

It is not many days that you have the pleasure of running into a Sea Man, but on this unlikely day in August, at the Milford Ohio Paint Out I had such a day. I was told of a home that had a nautical flavor that was receptive to us visiting to make a painting for the...

Romantic Walk

by admin | Aug 22, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale

Give it all up painters – to create great paintings

by admin | Aug 16, 2011 | concepts in painting

It has not been until recently that I have had much more success with my paintings and it has to do with a couple prime factors. I have heard that the more you go on with painting the more you see that the old stuff was not so great and start parting with the mishaps...

Light is the Stairway to Heaven

by admin | Aug 10, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

I always enjoyed that song Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. But maybe they had some parts wrong in their song. As an artist I would like to argue that light is understandably all God and that there is no darkness in it. So while viewing my garden as light danced...