Figuring out the best way to paint from photos in the studio has been a long-time challenge for many artists. Some artists feel that painting from photos is too much of a departure from the influence of experiencing scenes and painting them in person, so they never refer to photos while painting. I’ve found in [...]
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Here’s a photo of a new painting that I’m working on in the studio. It’s a 16″ x 12″ that I’m hoping to use as one of my entries for the 2010 American Impressionist Society National Show.
Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of questions from other artists asking how I make the canvas panels that I use for plein air painting. Some of the reasons that I use canvas panels rather than stretched canvas for plein air painting include: • Light can travel through a stretched canvas, but not a canvas [...]
