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Artist Material of the Week: Cobalt Drier

Cobalt Drier is used with oil paints to reduce the time it takes for the surface of the paint film to dry. Driers are best used with techniques that call for thin applications of paint, as in glazes. If your technique includes a thick impasto then cobalt driers are...

The Informed Creator

In Ben Shahn’s The Shape of Content, there is an essay called the “Biography of a Painting.” In this essay Shahn writes about his personal pilgrimage toward expressing his true inner self in his paintings. He wrote of finding his early...

May Stevens

This morning at work curator, Dennis John, gave a talk on a new exhibition, The Water Remembers Paintings by May Stevens.May Stevens paints on canvas and paper with acrylic. The color depth is amazing. I hadn’t thought acrylics were capable of this. If you are...

The work continues

I have continued to work on the study. I don’t want to work to much on it as it is just a study. I will work on additional studies to audition other backgrounds and textures. A question I have asked myself is should the background texture have a symbolic...