Wood Relief Composition

Every now and then I must work with wood.  I just feel the need for it, and I go at whatever I have available to me.  I prefer to work with maple, the cleaner the better.
Here is my new piece, hope you enjoy it.

Relief Composition #1

2007, Maple and enamel on panel

46" x 26"

Detail.

Hung horizontally.

I will work with Maple again...

...I have been saving a large amount of very special wood just for artwork.

Proteus Magazine

I am going to be published in Proteus Magazine issue #2.  It is going to come out today in PDF format.  Proteus Magazine is an online arts magazine.

Read it online!

Download the PDF!

2.1_The fundamentals of oil painting

2.1  The fundamentals of oil painting

There is only one rule to being an oil painter:  use oil paint anyway you can, as all other variables are irrelevant and inconsequential.  There are tried techniques to the application of oil paint, but those also are a variable.  That is not to say don't learn what has worked before you, simply do not be confined by another's personal preferences.  I say that the single most important fundamental is that the student of painting, the artist, and the master painter, use oil pigments and only oil pigments.  

In chapter 2, I will discuss the fundamentals of oil painting as I see and have practiced them.  It is my hope that an artist reading this in the future will find value within a disciplined study of oil painting, just as this future will generate new and innovative ideas in said artists generation.