"Bright Egret"__6x8 oil study on linen panel___$190I think I need to put a bird into a painting I am working on...I will show and tell why, later, but for the next few days, I am trying out some different birds...see yesterday's blog post. As I work on a BIG painting this week, I have some thoughts for you artists out there...On Brushes...
I HATE shopping, but I NEED art supplies. So when I go to Artisan in Santa Fe or Taos, I snap up everything I NEED and am always tempted by other great deals... (I re-named them Arti-SINS, because of all that excess!)...BRUSHES....I ALWAYS buy a new brush or two. Now, I am not into all the "gadget" brushes, like those rubber wedge brushes or the...OK, I bought egberts once...but I prefer standard, fine oil painting bristles...preferably natural bristle, Robert Simmons.... Sometimes I get home with a new one I TOUGHT was a bristle and it ends up being a synthetic. The "Silver" is one I HATE!... and the Connoisseur, too. Now, for small paintings, I use only one brush at a time, and scrub and clean it between colors, and am VERY ROUGH with them...so the Connoisseur #6 or 4's HATE ME! They curl up on the fringes (just one or two hairs will curl and flip)...I HATE THAT, and vowed to never get another one. But today, while working on a big painting with 5 brushes in my hand, all loaded, I noticed I had a "favorite"...lo...it was a #10 Connoisseur, pure synthetic filbert....I had to think this through, but the difference is the way I paint...On the big ones I do not scrub on the canvas with the brush (I use paper towels for that, but that's another lesson). I have been using lots of color thinned with a medium (for now) and put down the stroke and leave it...so there!
2 comments:
Love the light on this egret - especially that light on the back wing...
Good renditions of the missions. I have several painting buddies, and we did the mission trail in SA a few years ago. Unfortunately it was cloudy the whole entire time, a few showers even. I hope to go back and try again sometime! Concepcion is my favorite -
Stunning painting. It's always an added bonus when you write about supplies or painting techniques. I, too, am quite hard on brushes. I always think (hate to admit this) that the new brush I buy is going to make me a better painter. Oh well, we all have our delusions.
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