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It is indeed a horror, and the western world's actions absolutely shameful, but I fear she is not doing the Palestinian cause any...

And twenty times as many dead in the Ukraine. How can we even talk of painting? how can this forum even exist? Well, we all die but...

So, as I predicted in prior threads about protesting via disfiguring art, sooner or later someone would do actual lasting damage to a...

De Laszlo's masterful portrait of Lord Balfour was attacked by a young female student with spray paint and then slashed many times with...

There is a history of wheat starch being used in tubed paints in the late 19th century and it was poorly thought of. Likely, if for no...

The NBC article is slightly misleading because it doesn't mention that the study by Jana Sanyova found wheat starch grains in the...

I heard Rembrandt using of sorts of things for his impasto. Egg yolk, Dutch stack white, printer plate oil, chalk, marble dust. The only...

I wouldn't recommend it from a permanence point of view. It might go brownish after many years of aging.

Another artist I stumbled upon while cleaning up some of the images on my iPad was Hitoshi Kobayashi, a Japanese painter born in 1967...

I may have posted this artist in this thread before... if I did, it was a while ago. I just came upon his painting, "Winter Moon" (a...

Had some cobalt blue left over and didn't want to waste it.

Still working on a few things at once. I think it's overwhelming me a little. Not too much, but it does interrupt focus. More than that...

I was like that with the one I just posted. I think it's common to lose the vision but get it back again.