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I've had a few inquiries as to how I go about photographing my paintings. I have drawn a marginally useful diagram for you to decipher!
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My current palette:
Ivory Black
Phthalo Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Red
Cadmium Orange
Burnt Umber
Raw Umber
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Yellow
Cadmium Lemon
Titanium White
My favorite mediums:
Maroger (made by the Schuler School....they use high-quality turps so it doesn't stink to high-heaven like other brands)
Neo-Megilp
My favorite brushes:
Robert Simmons Signet filbert bristles.
Using a flexible and out-of-production (expensive ouch) Holbein painting knife. Friggin awesome. Japanese steel baby!
My favorite painting surface:
Ampersand Gessobord
Hands-down the most important book about art-making that I've ever read:
"The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. About the nature of conquering internal forces which we foolishly perceive as external. No excuses--just work.
A few quotes for the artist:
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
-Calvin Coolidge
"Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times, the calling that is yours and yours alone. You know it. No one has to tell you. And unless I'm crazy, you're no closer to taking action on it than you were yesterday or will be tomorrow. You think Resistance isn't real? Resistance will bury you.
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study. He applied to the Academy of Fine Arts and later to the School of Architecture. Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas."
-Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
"Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have dreamed would come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: 'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. Begin it now.'"
-W. H. Marray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition
