Recent content by Marc

Thought I'd find this immediately, but instead took me about 15 min to track this down. I thought it would be late sixties or early seventies, but nope, 1959! and available on reel to reel tape the year after. So, Flash Gordon and the Forbidden planet stuff.

One by two foot unused canvas from a second-hand shop for three dollars, and from the same place, a city gallery published book gifted as a prize to an art student in 2007. Hope they're doing well and just doing a clean out.

I saw this posted on someone's page and I thought that's not a Matisse, but I can't find the original artist. It seems popular, often copied, and commonly believed by hobbyists to be a Matisse. If told this I imagine many saying, "If he didn't paint it, he should of!" Broadly, the Matisse...

I suppose the bottom left of the green field is close to the thirds line, but the top adjustment is still way off. This does bring up another point though. Is the original better as an arrangement of shapes?

Tweaking the disappearing road.

It was the telegraph or power poles I was trying to correct for. They seem to attempt the horizon vanishing point while the road just goes over a near rise. But maybe the greater offness gives a surrealist effect. Like a De Chirco picture.

I've always liked this picture, and upon coming across it a yesterday I thought well the perspective is off, I wonder what it would look like if I tried changing it. Which do you like more? I think the original might still have it.

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 painting gives me meaning in this short life. I believe in the soul, and I hope, pray, that my works might feed the souls of others. The limitations of my mind...

De Laszlo's masterful portrait of Lord Balfour was attacked by a young female student with spray paint and then slashed many times with a box cutter. Apart from (ironically) endorsing the inclusion of female students at Cambridges Trinity college he also was a key figure in returning European...

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 other reason, that it was a way on cutting the percentage of expensive pigments.

The NBC article is slightly misleading because it doesn't mention that the study by Jana Sanyova found wheat starch grains in the secondary coloured ground layer not in the actual impasto. The NBC piece quotes Narayan Khandekar speculating on an impasto use. (but they haven't found it there)

I heard Rembrandt using of sorts of things for his impasto. Egg yolk, Dutch stack white, printer plate oil, chalk, marble dust. The only time I recall wheat flower was in filling the small weave holes in some canvases. and the flour had discoloured. Though this was of little importance as the...

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

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

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