studio notes

studio painting of a plein air painting in oil

galilee, pennsylvania, watercolor & gouache, 300 lb. cold pressed paper, 26 x 36 cm, 2012

❝Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.❞—Rembrandt van Rijn

studio notes is this artist's personal online note book for reference and a convenient way to monitor his own progress.

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chadilaksono:

I never got a chance to post my 2012 Sketchbook Project. In the end I like this one less than the 2011.

I still like the idea of illustrating my favorite...

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Geneviève Zondervan (b. 1922), La Fenêtre, 1954. Oil on panel, 35 x 27 cm.

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“It is only from a certain height of aspirations that the mind becomes vulnerable to the experience of failing itself.”

— Peter Sloterdijk on Pascal, in Philosophical Temperaments

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pointa-patb:

figure study in progress … five days left

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cavetocanvas:

Paul Cadmus, Nudo #1, 1984

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I doodle-ized a critter.

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collvpkeith:

Saint Martin de Porres by Pierre et Gilles 1990

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yama-bato:

Settai Komura
Title: Aoyagi
1942

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I save these too. Have been thinking of how to use them.

multiplybynine:

Compositions with print proofs

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Brian Dunlop

Zimzum III

2006

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