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Monday, December 28, 2009 The Huckleberry Picker
This is from Fine Art America's website. Two of these have sold recently. Also have sold several copies of the new book, Real Art Real Easy, in the last two days.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009 The Cellist...new and improved.
Vector drawing done in Inkscape
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Friday, December 18, 2009 Real Art Real Easy on Createspace... Now available through Createspace, the Amazon.com print on demand service. It will be on Amazon.com in about two weeks.
How to save money on paint Buying the highest grade, most expensive paints will not guarantee that your paintings will improve. It's not the paint. It's your personal creativity and vision that determines the quality of your work. Acrylic paint can be expensive. Old Holland New Masters Ultramarine Blue costs $32.76 for 250 ml. 250 ml equals 8.45 ounces. Sixteen ounces would be about $64. I've tested this paint, too. It's creamy and very nice to work with. I highly recommend it if you can afford it. How cheap should you go with paint? Is there a way to save money on paint? A couple days ago I tested a very inexpensive student grade acrylic paint, about 1/20 the price of Old Holland. The Product Information Specialist provided this information: "The Blickrylic line is a student line and not considered archival. However, these particular colors share the same lightfastness and non-yellowing properties as their corresponding colors in Blick Artist Acrylic. Yellow and Magenta, 2, the others 1. The lower color strength and pourable viscosity for the Blickrylic are what separates the two lines, specifically for these colors." This implies that some of the colors in student line do not have good lightfastness. You could use certain colors in this student line and they should hold up as well as their artist line paint. The down side is the much reduced pigment load. Fine for some purposes, but not for others. For example, putting on thick layers minimizes the down side of low pigment loading. Low pigment load could be seen as a benefit for glazing. Today another email states: "I can tell you that the Blickrylic has a much lower pigment load than the Blick Artist's Acrylic. You are not going to get much color saturation or opacity. I would say that you would be better off using a medium such as the Liquitex Pouring Medium or Golden Acrylic Flow Release with the Blick Artist's Acrylic if you need a lower viscosity. You do need to be very careful and mix a few drops in at time, because if you add too much you may reduce your pigment load to the point of making the paint similar to a student grade." This suggest another approach to saving on paint. Buy artist grade and mix with extra medium. How much can we actually save doing this? A pint of Blick artist grade Ultramarine Blue costs $11.99. A pint of gloss medium costs $3.90 if we buy the gallon size. Suppose we mix one to three, paint to medium. $11.99 + $11.70 = $23.69 / 4 pints $23.69 / 4 = $5.92 / pint Not as cheap as student grade, but not too bad. I've never actually done this, but I do mix my paint with medium on the palette normally about 1:1. Not so much to extend it, rather to get the handling quality I prefer.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Testing 'Blickrylic Economy Acrylics'
On watercolor paper with No doubt about the economy part, if by economy is meant inexpensive. At $3.64 for a pint, 16 oz, there is no paint that cost less to my knowledge. That's $0.45 for 2 oz. But is it any good?
Ultramarine Blue, Chrome Yellow, Magenta, Titanium White, Mars Black
"Blickrylic is a true acrylic paint, priced for the budget-minded. Because it's
so affordable, you can experiment more, or try your hand at something big!",
says Blick's website. "Blickrylic is extremely pourable and non-toxic, making
it ideal for classroom settings. It is mixable with other brands of acrylics,
and dries quickly to a permanent, waterproof, I ordered a pint of each color as you see above. Flip open the lid to open the small hole, does it pour out? Nope, you gotta squeeze the jar to get anything out. Definitely not a liquid paint, more a soft bodied paint. What pigments did they use? The website doesn't say, nor does the label. The blue and magenta are on the light side. I assume that is because they have less pigment than an artist or professional grade paint. Less pigment, more filler means lower price. I've requested a list of pigments for this line of paint. Till then we don't know how permanent they are. Even so they are nice to paint with. They mix easily and as you would expect. Secondaries were no problem. Setting aside the pigment load issue, they're ok. The low cost may even set you free to try new things. For a
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 RARE Now on Lulu.com!!! Real
Art Real Easy
"Take the Mystery out, Put the Magic in." Not satisfied with your paintings? Real Art Real Easy Teach Yourself to Paint See it on Lulu.com or...
ArtRage Studio Pro 3
Digital Oil version of the thumbnail below.
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Monday, December 14, 2009 Doodle
Pen on paper A drawing without a plan or purpose.
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Saturday, December 12, 2009 Blast From the Past
A composite from '04.
Thumbnail Sketches
A view from the cruise boat at
A great Mexican restaurant.
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Friday, December 11, 2009 RARE Now on Lulu.com!!! Real
Art Real Easy
"Take the Mystery out, Not satisfied with your paintings? Real Art Real Easy Teach Yourself to Paint See it on Lulu.com or...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 A Little Off Topic... Something has been interfering with my artwork lately. Maybe you have noticed the recent news stories about 'Climategate'? Climate change believers say it's all a plot by deniers to torpedo the Copenhagen meeting now in full swing. One side says the science is settled; the other side insists it most certainly is not! Both sides have high powered, big time scientist and politicians. What's the layman to think? I've spent hours online over the past couple weeks trying to puzzle it out. I don't trust the IPCC after learning it was never intended to be fair-minded about AGW, Anthropomorphic Global Warming, though it is presented that way to the public. It was actually created to advocate for the AGW point of view! Something's is rotten in Denmark. Today I happened to learn of a book that came out last July, Chill. You can read a fair amount of it on the Amazon site. Peter Taylor seems not to have started as a true believer for either side. He explains things in a way I can comprehend. For example, did you know that the words 'likely' and 'very likely' have a numerical scientific meaning? I didn't. Likely means 'above 66% confidence'; very likely means 'above 90% confidence'. Did you know it requires 95% probability to confirm a scientific hypothesis? I didn't know that either. Now when the IPCC 2007 Assessment says they are 95% confident that warming has taken place it has a whole new meaning. It means the hypothesis that global warming had occurred is scientifically confirmed. Even so, there is still a 1 in 20 chance they are wrong about that. And when it says it is 'very likely' average Northern Hemisphere temperatures were higher than during any other 50 year period in the last 500 years, I know it means this is not scientifically confirmed being only 90+% probable. I can also see now how the media and politicians can get the wrong impression. Taylor is a good writer and a welcome voice of reason. Even if you don't buy the book, you can read to page 25 for nothing and learn a lot. Don't forget to click the 'Surprise Me!' link on the left.
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Monday, November 30, 2009 San Fran Trip...paintings and drawings. All done from life, on location...
Cliff House Rock
Cliff House Rock 2
Filbert Street
Golden Gate
The Beach - Stinson
The Wave - Stinson
The Suitcase - Klamath Falls
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Saturday, November 7, 2009 Prepublication Peek! The New Book is Almost Done. See sample pages...
This is what I've been spending all my time on for the last three months. It's great to see it coming together. The book will be available on Amazon.com and Lulu.com - that's the plan anyway.
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