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Category: Painting

  • Jan van Eyck

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    15th Century painter Jan van Eyck was the first great master of oil painting, though he was not, as was commonly believed, the originator of the practice of oil painting. When oil based paint was first formulated it was used for practical or craft-like applications on objects, because it was more durable in that role…

  • “Painting a Day” Blogs (Round 5)

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    I will often, if not always, try to mention Duane Keiser in my posts about Painting a Day blogs, because he started the idea back in December of 2004 (followed shortly by Julian Merrow-Smith). I originally posted about Keiser in October of 2005. Keiser is still at it; he has allowed himself to be more…

  • Anthony J. Ryder

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    Tony Ryder is a contemporary realist who does still lifes and, in particular, figure and portrait paintings and drawings, with meticulous attention to detail and superb draftsmanship. His site offers galleries of both paintings and drawings, as well as information about his teaching schedule and workshops. Ryder is the author of the well-regarded book The…

  • Jeremy Lipking

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    Value is one one of the most overlooked and misunderstood properties in painting. No, I don’t mean $Dollar $Value, the only property that seems to matter to some art collectors, I mean the range of value from dark to light, which is often difficult to separate from hue (the particular color) and intensity (how much…

  • “Painting a Day” Blogs (Round 4)

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    As I mentioned in yesterday’s post about the challenges and rewards of taking on the practice of doing “a painting a day”, the hardest thing about doing one small painting every day and then posting it to a blog is, of course, making the time. All of us are pulled in various directions and maintaining…

  • “Painting a Day” Blogs (Round 3)

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    Our story thus far: in October of last year I wrote a post about Duane Keiser, a painter and teacher from Virginia who, in December of the year before (2004), had committed himself to the excellent but demanding practice of doing one small painting a day. Most of his daily paintings were about 5×7″, or…