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Mylar a support for drawing and painting
I confess (and I know I’m not alone in this) that I profess a kind of fetishism for traditional artist materials. For example, I enjoy the feelings I get with drawing papers with their different textures and shades of white; I love sharpening a good pencil with a blade or sliding the natural fibers of…
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Oil color palette; tips for a personal choice
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After all that has been written about the oil color palette I have decided to add my own contribution. I do it because I would have liked to find something similar, to put my thoughts in order, when I began to worry about this issue in the old days of the academy. And also because…
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How to clean oil paint brushes and enjoy it
I have to admit to becoming a paint brush geek. I’ve gone from being completely indifferent to treating them with a care that borders on the unhealthy. And the person most responsible for my pious conversion to this good practice is my friend, and fellow painter, Miguel Coronado. Seeing the way in which he fusses…
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Alex Kanevsky; sharing the Art of Teaching
Alex Kanevsky stops in front of a student’s easel. With a hand placed on his chin, he casts a concentrated eye over the work and ponders on the exact words with which to articulate his ideas. His attitude expresses respect for the artist and a pronounced sense of responsibility. He does not want to impart…
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Antonio López: learn from the Master
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hands crossed behind his back, the slight and nimble figure of Antonio López moves between easels and the smell of turpentine. He displays an enviable energy and normally interrupts his wanderings among the painters only in order to have lunch and a little rest at midday. Some twenty to twenty-five artists toil away opposite still-life…