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Whistler and Lautrec April 8, 2016 20:40

The Falling Rocket by James MacNeil WhistlerWhistler would work on a painting for hours and be all happy about it for 15 minutes, "It's GREAT!", bragging all over about it, and then an hour later he'd go and scrape it off the canvas, terrified that someone would see it and think what a crap artist he was. Read more...

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It's a Size Thing January 15, 2016 11:41

Nightwatch by RembrandtI've been thinking about size a great deal in my own work. For a while, I fantasized about painting on very large canvases (and I mean canvas as opposed to the heavy watercolor paper I've been using for years). Read more...
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