http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?catselect=Oil,_Alkyd,_Resin_and_Wax_on_Location Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel en-us Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:22:38 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss YaBB 2.5.2 Revision: 1.0 30 http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1427696434/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1427696434/0#0 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 06:20:34 GMT This scene at the Piiholo Rodeo Pavilion is 2 miles from my place in Makawao. This is the rainy season, why did I choose a sunny day?<br />At least I'm under the pavilion roof. This is another acrylic painting on Location. That's my studio van in the background behind the horse trailer. <br /><center>Below is the link to the web page with more previous painting images.</center><br /><center><a href="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/PiiholoRodeo.htm" target="_blank">http://www.realcolorwheel.com/PiiholoRodeo.htm</a></center><br /><center><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/piiholorodeo.htg/piiholorodeoD8-3-1-15-500x364.png" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /></center><br /><center><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/piiholorodeo.htg/PiiholoRanch500x364.png" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /></center><br /><center><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/piiholorodeo.htg/PiiholoRodeo800x583.png" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /></center><br /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1358839528/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1358839528/0#0 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:25:28 GMT Mirror self portrait, oil, 11x15<br />It took me a week, the final finish is four coats of dammar without any drier. It will never yellow. The oil may but pure damar won't. I'm testing this new forums ability to upload images from my computer, it works fine. I set it to accept jpg, JPG, gif, and png. This image is a 586x800, 72 dpi, png, it's good not to have to scroll to see the whole image. <br /><br />I was just given a hardcover book of Rembrant, It has his portrait on the cover. I haven't started it yet but I'm going to use his colors, white, Naples yellow, vermilion and black. He painted this portrait with candles or an oil lamp for lighting. One point light, chiaroscuro. http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1279555369/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1279555369/0#0 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:02:49 GMT This small 4x6 inch painting was done on masonite and depicts a local church. I know I am too tight with the application of paint. Something I have struggled with in my watercolors.  Constructive criticism is welcomed. http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1248639087/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1248639087/0#0 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:11:27 GMT (Admin. I post for Lauri and Blair)<br /><br />“I always use complete sentences when I write on the Internet,” my brother in law announced.  I cringed to think of certain emails I have sent lately:  an exercise in fragments and dashes. What formerly turned me off about “how are you’s” and “how was your weekend”, I now recognize as a vestige of politesse.<br /><br />It wasn’t without thought that I gave up those small phrases.  The pressure to get to the point, and not waste someone’s time seemed like the right thing for the late nineties and early aughts.   But in 2009, there is once again time for pleasantries.<br /><br />Blair and I participated in the Madison Art Society’s painting sale for the library yesterday. We had a booth beneath a yellow striped tent in historic Madison, Connecticut.   We didn’t know we could be part of the sale, or the group, until Thursday, so our preparation was hasty.<br /><br />We needed something to hang our paintings on.  We searched the bowels of the abandoned building we live in (it isn’t exactly abandoned, but it is shut down because the renovation work on the retail space, 7,000 square feet, was done without permit.  There is no end in sight to its dilapidation).  It is a behemoth of a space full of displays for selling carpet and tile – but none quite right for paintings. <br /><br />We made a trip to the Home Depot, to review their inventory.  A four-by-eight sheet of pegboard, not the most romantic of materials, was twenty dollars.  Three sheets, plus trims seemed like more than we should spend on a small town art show.  Besides, it wouldn’t fit in the car.<br /><br />It has been up to Blair to get our booth together for the show.  “What about those doors?” he asked.  I said I thought they weighed a ton.  “At least they won’t blow over.” Blair wired together, at the hinges, a tri-petal flower of old doors, replete with fine brass finger latches.  Miraculously, they fit into the car, along with the paintings. We arrived at the tent at 7 AM on Saturday.  “Nice doors,” was our first compliment of the day.<br /><br />I forget what a relief it is to be with a group of artists. We’re a little standoffish at first, looking at one another’s work, but by 11 AM, we all get on like a house afire.  It’s been a real strain to feel at home in Connecticut, but this has taken me a long way. On top of it all, Blair sold a painting!<br /><br />Recently, Blair received a note from a classmate who now lives not far away, in Connecticut,  suggesting perhaps they could “twitter”.  While I appreciate Facebook and a look into my friends' lives, there's nothing like the real thing.  As I look into the eyes of a fellow artist as she asks, “how did you get to be able to paint so freely?” I smile wildly in my heart.<br /><br />Laurie (text) and Blair (painting) PESSEMIER<br />Repose   MBP  Oil on canvas  24 x 36  $475.00 http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1235094756/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1235094756/0#0 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:52:36 GMT This is a conversation between Larry and I that has been going on for a week.<br />It's about the difference between a fine artist and an illustrator and moves on to 1,2,3,4 and what I (Larry) calls a mythical 5 point perspective. These are the posts in the last two days, when we decided to bring it here where we could post the images we are talking about. Larry is Mitt, I'm Don<br /><br />Don<br />Klimt is not what I call a finished fine artist as I said before. He never learned the basics.<br />Van Gogh played with a Retical but left it behind as unnecessary.<br /><br />MittROMNEY666 (1 day ago) <br />klimt won a scholarship to the vienna school of arts and crafts and studied there from 1876 - 1883. In 1888, Klimt received the Golden order of Merit from Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria for his contributions to murals painted in the Burgtheater in Vienna. - from wikipedia<br /><br />DonJusko (1 day ago)<br />Yea, I know, and Piccaso is a great artist. I have my own taste and it not influenced by the likes of others. I doubt if Emperor Franz Josef or his advisers really knew anything about art.<br /><br />mittROMNEY666 (1 day ago)<br />don have u actually looked at the burgtheater paintings? they are highly refined academic works - reminiscent of alma-tadema. klimt won plenty of academic competitions and was highly thought of by the establishment early in his career. now u may not like klimt or tadema, but to say he hasnt mastered the basics is a bizarre claim. this guy wasn't picasso.<br /><br />DonJusko (20 hours ago)   0<br />I tried to give the links that show the lack of basic knowledge in ariel and lineal perspective, while his resume is impressive I don't think his paintings are.<br />I tried 2 more times to post links to the paintings I'm talking about even encrypting them with spaces but they won't post here in YouTube.<br />If you would like to go to a forum where we can post the paintings we are talking about I would like that.<br /><br />DonJusko (20 hours ago)<br />I downloaded 40160204~Vienna-Burgtheatre-Court-Theatre-Posters.jpg. He is not what you say. He is limited to 1 point perspective and would never even dream of 4 point perspective. Her right raised arm is as bad as the MGM logo girl. I overlaid his perspective lines on my image if you would like proof I'll email it to you.<br /><br />mittROMNEY666 (10 hours ago)<br />u seem to be holding klimt to unreasonable standards here. which of the old masters or 19th cent artists ever used 4 point perspective? i can think of the mirror in the arnolfini portait, a sp by parmigianino, carel fabritus' view of a delft street. but there were not many. there is a very clear 3 point in klimt's medicine. whenever u draw a figure it pretty much has to be at least 2 point.<br /><br />mittROMNEY666 (10 hours ago)<br />admittedly, his architecture is mainly 1 point but that is true for the vast majority of artists at the time; its just a stylistic choice. as far as aerial perspective, klimt's knowledge is evident in his taormina. i admit his later works are primitive.<br /><br />DonJusko (2 hours ago)<br />1894 KK or Court Theater built. Using1900 to be the date of this mural and other murals with one point perspective.<br />If you go here and click on the thumbnails you will see what I mean about lacking the basics.<br />(I sent all the links from my inbox)<br /><br />DonJusko (2 hours ago)<br />1893, Klimt and Matsch are commissioned to decorate the ceiling of the Great Hall of the new University of Vienna. The series of paintings, "Philosophy", "Medecine" and "Jurisprudence", provoked widespread controversy. He is never to accept a public commission again.<br />It was said "He was painting in the past".<br /><br />DonJusko (2 hours ago)<br />For 20 years Moscow (1000 miles away) had been painting with 4 point perspective.<br />This is new page link to this painting. Vasiliy Polenov. Granny's Orchard. 1878.<br />Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.<br /><br />DonJusko (2 hours ago)<br />Mitt said: "there is a very clear 3 point in klimt's medicine. whenever u draw a figure it pretty much has to be at least 2 point."<br />Klimt never used 3 or 4 point perspective, he didn't know they existed. His figures did not size correctly in distances. Foreshortening is the only perspective in figures and I already stated how badly he did there. <br />I'm sorry, but this guy will not make the list no matter how much he is promoted.<br /><br />DonJusko (1 day ago)<br />Being a great artist is being able to paint anything in front of you. I include that artist and the one able to remember what they learned and paint a story, like Masaccio, Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Raphael, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Frans Hals, Vermeer, Murillo, Lebrun, Mignard, Delacroix, Bellows, Shishkin, Goya, Vigee-LeBrun, Levitan, Pukirev, Polenov, Courbet, Bouguereau, Repin and Homer. I may have left out some but you know what I mean.<br /><br />DonJusko (1 day ago) <br />Mitt is right and wrong. First you train with models before you, then you paint stories with what you have learned.<br />mittROMNEY666 (1 day ago)<br />i agree w most of ur list. needs more italians though. even the more realistic artists of the baroque/rococco period like caravaggio, velazquez and hals did far more than just replicate what they saw. <br />once we get past 1850 and the camera becomes available, there is a definate break however. u dont really see the same level of fluency in the draftsmanship. the value and color is more accurate (and so is the draftsmaship if ur talking about mechanical accuracy). but something has been lost.<br /><br />DonJusko (19 hours ago)<br />Needs more Italians though? You betcha, it's a very small list, I might even have missed some of my favorites. <br />Today we have the most advanced color pigments in history but the drawing and painting skills are lacking thanks to a steady amount of wars since the Spanish-American War.<br /><br />mittROMNEY666 (9 hours ago)<br />"the drawing and painting skills are lacking thanks to a steady amount of wars since the Spanish-American War."<br />Mitt: possibly a contributing factor but i think the real culprit is the camera. once it was available, it was too tempting to pass up. people no longer wanted to devote years of study to their craft - the camera allowed even a novice to have perfect drawing. and once everyone could do it, it ceased to matter.<br />~ http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1195638716/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1195638716/0#0 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:51:56 GMT Small oil painted over several hours one morning.  It recently sold. http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1152928224/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1152928224/0#0 Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:50:24 GMT I have a large older tube of flake white and it is too thick.  What would be a good mix to thin it. I would make up a jar of this  white with what to make it juicy? I rarely use added oils or turps  etc with my paint, although I do break out Liquin for fine lines and  details. I have Damar, retouching damar and linseed oil.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/YaBBattachments/KathcactusCarlpo.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><br />Oil painting is my 'new' medium and I appreciate any suggestions.  Picture is attached for your viewing pleasure, and thanks for your  website suggestions. I usually work fast, on location, plein air.<br />Kath http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1138567959/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1138567959/0#0 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:52:39 GMT I have been out on location painting, and thought I'd post this.  I do a painting a day, and this one was yesterday's.  I go to the Santa Rosa Preserve which is oak and grasslands, and yesterday I captured the evening light in this 10 x 20 inch oil.  <br />  I love to paint!  The daily paintings have been going on since October 12, and so far I haven't missed one.  Not all are on location, I do a lot of still life and material from photo references I take myself.<br />  I also have a mailing list of people interested in receiving the paintings.  It sure makes a responsibility to deliver a painting at the top of my chores!<br />  The attachment is the daily painting from January 26.  It's an acrylic, not an oil.  I have a color system I use that is easy to follow, and accurate the way the human eye perceives color, and it makes my work seem to "read right" to the viewer.  Snow is fun to paint!<br /><img src="http://www.elinart.com/gallery/laart/la-06-028x.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1119826832/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1119826832/0#0 Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:00:32 GMT (Admin, I post for Laurie and Blair)<br /><br />I have spent the last seven years in a "civilized" country. Imagine my surprise at finding myself, awake, at a Torrington Twisters game one Thursday evening in the summer.<br /> <br />The greenskeepers were watering the dirt between the bases as the players acted out a harmless game of catch on the sidelines.  The sun spilled its golden oil across the grass;  I painted the shadows a soft purple.  Teams organized on their sides and a crackly PA played the national anthem.<br /> <br />We had parked our car just outside the gate.  We were surprised about how easy it was to find a place, until the first foul ball cleared the net and dropped into the lot, hitting metal below.<br /> <br />Behind us, the staff of a local camp for boys sang silly, bawdy songs, peppered with "rap" during the game.   A dozen 11 year-old-girls, the undefeated champion baseball team (in their class) in Torrington, taunted the counselors from their seats at third base.  I hadn't seen such unbridled joy in a long time and had a hard time keeping my mind on my work.<br /> <br />College baseball is different from the majors.  It is more of a process.  It is learning that a pitcher doesn't just pitch.  By being the short stop doesn't mean your glove doesn't have a hole in it.  It is about learning the game.<br /> <br />We sat in the first row behind the net between first base and home.  I could hear the pitch hit the leather of the catchers mitt.  When we'd attend a Seattle Mariners game in person, I could hear that sound on the radio before the sound waves would reach the stands. <br /> <br />I could see the crouch of the catcher -- folded up like an origami figure as he awaited that ball.  The batter lifts his foot ever so slightly before he swings the bat.  I try to remember all my human figure studies as the action transpires just a few feet before my eyes. <br /><br />We take pictures, too, but I love trying to catch the movement in front of me.  Elbows up, bat, as if suspended by a thin string from the sky above. <br /> <br />Two bats broke on Thursday night.  Skinny little bat boys, wearing helmets made for men with many more worries, dash out to pick up the pieces.  The camp counselors would sing "bat boy, bat boy" from behind us each time the urchins would dart out to retrieve another ball or bat.<br /> <br />Our life is so complicated, jetting from here to there -- six big trips since January on the plane, and suddenly I find myself: on a wooden bench, watching baseball, in the capricious summer light.<br /> <br />Laurie (text) and Blair (painting) PESSEMIER<br />"Diamond" oil on canvas; 11 x 14"<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/YaBBattachments/Lauriediamond6-26-5.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1118648922/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1118648922/0#0 Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:48:42 GMT This is oil, 50% stand oil, 25% raw cold pressed, 25% Venitian balsom.<br />Clouds are our fickle friends. This took four 4 hour days. The more you know the longer you can paint on a subject.<br />Here are the daily progressive images.<br /><a href="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jaca05jun.htm" target="_blank">http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jaca05jun.htm</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/YaBBattachments/jaca05wmauiviewfin600.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><br /><br /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1117427256/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1117427256/0#0 Mon, 30 May 2005 04:27:36 GMT Sunday, May 15th, 2005. Jacaranda Oil Paintng.<br /><br /> I started the drawing for a 22x30 painting of my friend Mike's house and jacaranda tonight with a 1 inch w/c flat, in watercolor.<br /><br />The medium I'm going to use is acrylics. I've never used w/c on acrylic panel before but I got it laid out in an hour.<br /><br />Tomorrow I will try to wash and lighten all the colors before adding the acrylic. I did catch the evening colors quickly and that's better then just a black and white drawing. The water colors stuck pretty good to the acrylic gesso.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jacaranda2nd2005pg2.htg/jacamikewcdraw400.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><br />I washed down the painting with water and a sponge but maybe only half of the color came off. That's Ok, I decided on oil, you can make oil paint as thick and opaque as you want. The medium I'm using is stand oil 50%, cold pressed 20%, raw linseed oil 20%, 10% Venetian balsam. That will give it a tough gloss. Very different from the wax and mastic.<br /><br />The main brush in this lay out is a 1" hog bristle flat and an 1.5 inch hog bristle fan brush to blend with. This is an evening, 5:00 painting. The colors pass very fast about this time, I had to jump around to catch all I could.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jacaranda2nd2005pg2.htg/jacamiked2-400.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><br />Thursday it rained in the afternoon, Friday wasn't much better. This is what it looked like Saturday evening, 5-21-05.<br /><br />I got the left side tree in, put more magenta in the sunlit side of the trees flowers, the rain made the tree full again.<br /><br />There is still a lot of work to do on the banana trees on the right.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jacaranda2nd2005pg2.htg/jacamiked6-400.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><br />This evening was good color, I had 15 minutes to get the 6:30 light, at 6:45 sun went behind the West Maui mountains. I feel good that it's finished. Tomorrow I have to be back in Lahaina where I'll work on my 2 Cannons painting.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jacaranda2nd2005pg2.htg/jacamikesd9fin600.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1117424316/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1117424316/0#0 Mon, 30 May 2005 03:38:36 GMT <a href="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jacaranda2nd2005pg2.htm" target="_blank">http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jacaranda2nd2005pg2.htm</a><br /><br />5-10-5, Tuesday, 1:00 to 5:00. I did most of this paintings layout with an 1.5" black hair house painting brush, I want to pick up speed. Tomorrow afternoon, after the Kula Lodge Jacaranda painting, I'll add the branches of the foreground tree.<br /><br />TIP: Schevening Blue Light is a strong tint of cyan hue. I used it in this sky. <br /><br />5-11-5, I think I can finish tomorrow, a bristle fan brush and liner are helping a lot.<br />Well I thought I could finish today, I am having fun, and I just started another one just a mile away from here. No hurry..  Tomorrow I'll work on the tree branches and get my time right on the main tree. The suns position effects the color of the jacaranda.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jacaranda2nd2005pg2.htg/jacavallyday5fin600.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><br /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1117422239/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1117422239/0#0 Mon, 30 May 2005 03:03:59 GMT This is about a technique unique to this media.<br /><br />This is the oldest turpentine based media dating back to Roman times, when pre-made wax and mastic colors were kept in small jars.<br /><br />Cera colla was the previous leader in the Paint Wars, that was a water based wax paint from Egypt. This media was easier to paint with.<br /><br />You can follow the Paint Wars through-out time in the RCW Painting on Location Color Course. Just use the browser search for the term "Paint Wars"<br /><br />I degress.. This is all about Turpentine, Wax and Mastic. The most painterly media of all.<br /><br />Great for wall murals or decorations. It's not a blending media like oil is, it's more like adding a new stroke because it sets so quickly. That's why it looks so painterly, each stroke shows.<br /><br />This is an amazing media. It's so quick to set so it's easy to layer upon. But at the same time, it will wipe clean and change colors if you take two or three wet strokes over the set paint. This is because of how the set color re-dissolves so quickly.<br /><br />My paintings are a series of mistakes that I am continually correcting until I'm finished,<br /><br />Set and dry are two different things here. Usually the setting is after the dry to the touch, like in fresco. Here with wax and damar it is quickly dry to the touch but very re-dissolvable. This makes it very easy to work into or on top of the painting. Easy to change or wipe clean.<br /><br />When oil paint starts to set, you leave it alone. Painting on top of it will cause uneven shrinking and cracking will happen.<br /><br />Wax and mastic share this lifting technique with balsams. With cera colla, water will lay down the color, ammonia will pick it up.<br /><br />All mastic and balsam resins dry differently than oil. Their film dries as a whole, throughout, without a skin, and can be dissolved with a solvent. Because of this fact, and the fact that they are sticky, stand, balsam or resin layers can be applied over any stage of drying paint. Oil only paint, may chip off of an under layer that was not completely dry because it will still shrink more. Oil is not a good binder by itself but mastic, stand oil and alkyd oil mediums are.<br /><br />9:15. Today is sunny, I think I can get farther ahead by changing the painting to a sunny day. The sky is now blue. That is going to make it easier then when it was light gray.<br /><br />First I'll wash the painting with water, no problem, all the protein dust absorbed water and flushed right off. Go for the gold!<br /><br />Using turpentine and a little stiff brush brought me back to white. Similar to acrylics when I paint two coats of white on mistakes or changes.<br /><br />Pigments so far are.. Opaque Lemon Yellow, Old holland Indian yellow org/side and brn/side. the brown side is for greens, the orange side is for reds. Blocks Venetian red, Naples yellow deep by Mussini, Quin. Magenta by Daniel Smith, Diox. purple by Liquitex, Ult. blue deep by Mussini, Thalo blue by Grumbacher, Thalo green Y/s by Grumbacher, Old Holland opaque yellow green.<br /><br />Dick Blick has a chisel brush Series 66, #2 by Master Stroke.<br />Isaby has a Extra long and full sable liner, #8, a truly great brush.<br />Another great brush I'm using in this painting is the Langnickle "Shortie" Series 64, #4. This is a round ferrule with chiseled flat end hair. This brush is no longer available but I found a new supplier in Australia I want to check out.<br /><br />Well I bought what they had but the hairs were just a little too long, great for sign painting though.<br /><br />This morning I was on location by 6:30, I changed all the colors and shadows to fit this morning view, the roof in the background was still in shadow. Flowers above my eye level showed a bottom shadow, below my eye level had no shadow showing. <br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jacaranda1st2005.htg/jacakulacop5-10-5fin450.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1112661564/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1112661564/0#0 Tue, 5 Apr 2005 00:39:24 GMT Hi Don.....<br /><br />Good hearing from you....<br /><br />very interesting, the page you sent...<br />I use the three primaries  (oil), indeed transparent hues...  the cyan, quinacridone (exact same pigments as you do), and the yellow is arylide (lemon) yellow. The only cyan that plays right for me is Talens Van Gogh, the quinacridone is OK from Talens, Windsor-Newton or Rowneys, and the yellow from the latter two manufacturers.  Talens always add white to their yellows....  WHY ??    I round out the set with zinc white, and those 4 pigments do everything for me.  This happened slowly over the years as I found I could keep eliminating tubes (when you work a lot of plein air as I do, you want to back-pack it lightly) until it boiled down to what you have today.<br /><br />  I haven't bought a tube of black paint since I finished art school in 1987 and not long after that I stopped buying earth colours as well.  The beauty of the tri-colour pallette is the control one devolops over the colour, and that you never get "mud".  This is probably the best thing since sliced bread!  I tried to pass on this gospel, yet everyone has their own ways of working, and I guess I really shouldn't be too dogmatic.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.iarc.org/~4x1mk/Land_V.html" target="_blank">http://www.iarc.org/~4x1mk/Land_V.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.iarc.org/~4x1mk/" target="_blank">http://www.iarc.org/~4x1mk/</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/YaBBattachments/ronglandV4-4-5.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1108106452/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1108106452/0#0 Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:20:52 GMT I cannot find the earlier painting, but here is one I completed several days ago. 9"x12" oil canvas sheet, plein air in a little less than 2 hrs.<br />Palette FUM Blue (LF), Indian Yellow (OH), Magenta (OH)<br />Burnt Siena underpainting, Zinc White (LF) <br /><center><img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b358/boab9/ClatemomtBeach007sml.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /></center><br /><br />See more here<br /><a href="http://bobsgallery.blogspot.com/2006/01/claremont-beach-jan-7-2006.html" target="_blank">http://bobsgallery.blogspot.com/2006/01/claremont-beach-jan-7-2006.html</a> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1108098433/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1108098433/0#0 Fri, 11 Feb 2005 05:07:13 GMT Started on location (ala prima), but completed in studio   <br /><br />Please see my en plein air painting <br /><a href="http://bobsgallery.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://bobsgallery.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/YaBBattachments/bobPAINTINGS2Dec20005.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1104524620/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1104524620/0#0 Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:23:40 GMT Copal is a great medium, no other blends as well. Garrett Copal of Clovis, NM is the very best I found. I swear, it makes all other brands pale by comparison.<br />If you use copal, you must use Garrett Copal. <br /><br />"Copaiva balsam oil and copal resin both dissolve the lower layer and really slide the paint around... I never liked the brands I tried until I tried Ron Garrett's, copal@3lefties.com<br />there wasn't enough control. His brand painted beautifully."<br /><br />These two painting were done with a visiting student, because we painted a RCW color wheel also I wanted to blend the colors with every advantage, she was new to oil paints. <br /><br />This paintings took 2 days Here is the web page that goes into details.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/annabouquet.htm" target="_blank">http://www.realcolorwheel.com/annabouquet.htm</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/annabouquet.htg/annabouquetfin600.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/annabouquet.htg/RCW2painting12-28-04-500.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1102321102/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1102321102/0#0 Mon, 6 Dec 2004 08:18:22 GMT       Topic: SUMMER GARDEN  (Read 1391 times)<br />Bob_Abrahams<br />YaBB Senior Member<br />  Perth <br />I LOVE TO PAINT OUTDOORS<br /><br />    Posts: 101<br />      SUMMER GARDEN  <br />« on: Dec 5th, 2004, 10:18pm »<br />This a 10"X8" oil painting completed on location in approx 2 Hrs with 0.5 hr clean up and adjustemt in the studio.  <br />« Last Edit: Dec 5th, 2004, 10:23pm by Bob_Abrahams »       203.59.195.89<br />Warm regards <br />Bob <br />Australia<br /><hr width="40%" align="left" size="1" />BOB'S IMAGE AND BLOG WERE REMOVED BY BOB <br /><br />Bob, your getting real good real fast.<br />Your darks are excellent and well mixed, your colors clean, scratching and clawing in all the right places. Power you can live by.<br /><br />What was your palette and medium? http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1101553874/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1101553874/0#0 Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:11:14 GMT <img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/1732405_e780057980_o.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><br />I started this 9"X12" OIL painting on location Matilda Bay Sat 27 Nov 2004. This is far as I could go in 2 hrs. I Stopped because it was too wet to continue. Some very thickly applied paint. In a day or so I will probably see f I can clean it up and do alittle fine tuning in the studio> This was th first time I uses the Mager mediunm that Don so kindly sent all the way to Australia for me to trial. I will report on the medium in the "Medium" section shortly <br /><br />Bob<br /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1100936600/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1100936600/0#0 Sat, 20 Nov 2004 07:43:20 GMT I use primarily oil, though I can be distracted to others now and then.  I paint en plein aire with a group every Sunday.  It's getting very cold here now, but the autumn was as magnificient as I have ever seen.  I hope to be able to paint the ice on the Hudson River this year. http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1098690145/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1098690145/0#0 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:42:25 GMT I have just purchased a small tube of C Roberson's Maroger oil medium. It cost a fortune to buy here in Australia. I must mad!!!<br /><br />I am fairly sure that it not the same as the traditional Maroger used several centuries ago by the masters, but I decided to give it a go any way.<br /><br />Interesting that the recommended usage in 1:1 proportion with paint. <br /><br />So far, I like its slow drying properties, non gloss surface, the soft and juicy texture making it ideal for palette knife.  I may be mistaken but it seems to enhace the colours.<br /><br />I am also experimenting with a combination of Maroger and Clear Oil paint 1:1:1 with oil paint.   Apart from making the paint go further (which is not an issue for me because I small) it gives the paint a slightly translucent effect.  <br /><br />Having fun, will post pics soon. (Difficult to scan wet paintings)<br />Cheers<br />Bob Abrahams         <br /><br /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1097202737/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1097202737/0#0 Fri, 8 Oct 2004 02:32:17 GMT Here is a painting I completed on a Saturday morning. It was a beautiful bright spring morning (down under in Australia) where colourful Acacia and Bottle Brush dominated this scene in the local park.  The two figures added later, were from my imagination, although the woman seemed to paint herself while I wasn't looking.  <br />6"x8" oil on canvas panel mostly completed on location in 1.5 hours<br />Cheers<br />Bob<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/YaBBattachments/bobAKingParkspring10-2-4.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1096269707/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1096269707/0#0 Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:21:47 GMT Hello everyone<br />I have just returned from an exiting  two day painting trip to Toodyay<br />Please enjoy the following three 6'x8' oil sketches.<br />Cheers<br />Bob <br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/YaBBattachments/bobaToodyay4-9-26-4.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1095840609/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1095840609/0#0 Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:10:09 GMT Another lost painting medium before Pictura Translucida was a painting system called "cera colla", which is ammonia and wax emulsified wax paint. This was the standard water based ancient permanent paint. Bees wax from the "Honey Mountain" in Greece emulsified with ammonia from the city of Ammonium, in Egypt. The Egyptian's painted their walls with it for centuries, buff it up and it would radiate reflecting light, passageways would glow with this ammonia and water based wax paint.<br /><br />Ammonia, NH₃, is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, a water soluble gas.<br /><br />Ammoniac, a salt and gum found in the Qattara Depression 200 miles East of Memphis, Egypt. Ammoniac is the remains of a long extinct insect that lived in the area.<br /><br />Ammonium, is the Egyptian city founded about 500 B/C, as a shrine to their god Ammon. Ammonium is also NH₄, a radical that plays the part of a metal in the compound formed when ammonia reacts with acids, ammonium salts are alkaline.<br /><br />Ammonium hydroxide, basic NH₄OH is a weak alkali.<br /><br />Carbonate, a salt of carbonic acid, as calcium carbonate or ammonium carbonate, made by mixing the ammonium alkali with carbonic acid. H₂C0₃ is formed when carbon dioxide dissolves in water.<br /><br /><center>HOW TO MAKE CERA COLLA </center><br /><br />Ammonium carbonate or ammonium hydroxide is common ammonia water found at Ace Hardware, dilute it 1:1 with water. Heat it to where it is just starting to boil before you pour it into the melted wax. The ammonia water and wax should be mixed 1:1. Never boil the wax.  Don't stop stirring until it's cool. <br /><br />The mixture will expand 10 times larger as it effervesces. Keep stirring it until the reaction subsides and remove it from the heat. Keep stirring for seven more minutes as it cools down. It will become more viscus and finally It should be as smooth and creamy as whipped cream.<br /><br />The pan should be easy to clean out with soap and water, it it isn't you have a problem, and made it wrong.<br /><br />You can make a more soupy paint consistency by adding more water and ammonia in the first stage.<br /><br />I like a harder storage consistency that I can remove from the storage container. Thin it with my brush and water and use my dry pigments to make an artist's paint. As in any medium, brush constancy is always important.<br /><br />TIP: Make the consistency you want with the amount of liquid you add to the melted wax, not after it sets. 1:1 is a good storage consistency, 1:2 is more like a heavy paint, 1:20 is probably what my brush takes it down to.<br /><br />The first photo is melting beeswax in a thick pot, being heated on a gas stove. The pot is in an aluminum pie tin with water in it. That will keep the temp from getting too hot.<br /><br />2nd photo is of ammonia and water added at room temperature. It clumped the wax and made a bad mix, don't reuse the wax.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/ceracolla.htg/ceracollameltwax375.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/ceracolla.htg/ceracollacoldmix375.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><br />3rd is the way it should look expanded, while the effervescence is happening.<br />4th is the mass shrinking.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/ceracolla.htg/ceracollaeffer375.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> <br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com//ceracolla.htg/ceracollaefferstop375.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><br />Cool Creamy Cera Colla.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/ceracolla.htg/ceracollastircool500.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> <br /><br />As long as we keep it this wet or wetter it will store for a very long time. It won't re-wet or dissolve in water because it will have turned back into wax again, along with any pigment mixed in.<br /><br />A/D 700 CONSTANTINOPLE, The Lucca Manuscript describes some little known forms of art, one called <br /><a href="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/picturatranslucida.htm" target="_blank">http://www.realcolorwheel.com/picturatranslucida.htm</a><br /><br />PICTURATRANSLUCIDA - Transparent Painting on shiny tin<br /><br />At this time when artists were making paintings more beautiful then ever seen today. They had not only a complete opaque palette, but a compleat transparent palette as well. By todays standards the colors were not as permanent as todays pigments though. They made a halo or face glow by adding reflectance to the surface support. <br /><br />Giotto 1300, Italy, added a little cherry gum to the cera colla and the Byzantines added a little "milk of fig". This is the ancient "cera colla' paint of the Dark Ages. <br /><br />Later Byzantine's used just the wax, mastic and turpentine. Egypt continued on with cera colla. This newer technique continued on with the Romans. Water based Cera colla and Egypt lost that battle in the Paint Wars as mastic will loose to oil. Today, the two that will last the longest will be the first and last media, fresco on lime and acrylic on anything. You can follow the <a href="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/final.htm" target="_blank">Paint Wars in the main course link.</a> By searching for the term 'Paint Wars'.<br /><br />This will be the early Egyptian water soluble wax soap emulsion for pigments, it will mix with casein, gum, glue, egg, gelatin, turpentine, resin, balsam, shellac or oil. The volatile ammonia alkali dissipates while drying and the soap dries insoluble to water, like it was before you started. Put a cap on the container and it will store for a very long time. Grind your store bought dry pigments into it as you need them.<br /><br />Giotto added a little cherry gum to the mix and the Byzantine's added a little "milk of fig". This is the ancient "cera colla' paint of the Dark Ages.<br /><br />I would like to attribute the discovery of this medium to Egypt and their god Ammon not to Byzantium. They both used the medium a lot but all works were destroyed in in the Iconoclastic Movement.<br /><br />Potassium carbonate or caustic lye soda, is obtained in the impure form from wood ashes, potash [+IUM], are all the same alkali. It will also emulsify wax, but it will remain soluble in water, hygroscopic.<br /><br />Other mediums Gotto talked about in the Lucca Manuscript were; stic-lac and borax mixed, this made an India water based paint. Gilding gums, alum, as used in dyeing, egg and wax emulsions, and the exceptional Chios resin paintings.<br /><br />None of the paintings of this time survived. Heraclius also wrote about art at this time, he wrote about oil paints, and egg white plus alum, for miniature painting. <br /><br />I think the Egyptian Fayian Grave paintings were done with cera colla, not the encaustic hot wax method attributed to them. It's so much easier and faster even if you have all the hot tool shapes.<br /><br />Here is an example of cera colla, the wax paint from the time of the Dark Ages.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/forsale.htg/ceracolla203x266.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><br />Cera Colla 01, 5.5x7.5<br /><br />Well here it is 5 years later, 09-20-04, and I'm going to do my second cera colla. In the meantime I learned <a href="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/fresco.htm" target="_blank">Buon Fresco</a><br /><br /><center> White Orchard Green Glass</center><br /><br />I'm going to really give this medium a workout, thick to thin, painted on dry and wet. Scraped, stamped and heat added, it will be fired upon.<br />I just painted in the background and knifed in parts, I'm letting it dry now.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/ceracolla.htg/ccorchardstart400.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/ceracolla.htg/ccorchid20percent400.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> <br /><br />Ammonia water will keep very thin layers going on dry paint and will clean your brushes. <br />Put some medium on the palette and cover it so it won't dry out.<br />Since thin layers paint so well on the background I gave all the remaining areas a primer layer of thin medium. And then the whole painting another layer <img src="http://realcolorwheel.com/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/yabb21/smiley.gif" border="0" alt="Smiley" title="Smiley" /> Ammonia lets you work into then and get fine graduations. <br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/ceracolla.htg/ccorchard50percent400.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> <br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/ceracolla.htg/ccorchidnotfin400.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> <br /><br />This is a very easy media, you can't make a mistake you can't fix. The paint is always flowing. I can work into it like with the finest mastics. In fact I can add some mastic to it if I want, this water/wax based media can take it. I don't know if I want too yet or not, but I'll have to try it.<br /><br />It seems like there is a working time of maybe an hour. That's when nothing moves. But you can still scrape! Two hours later I could stain but not move the under layer.<br /><br />Use lot's of medium in you're paint, but it shouldn't dry lighter. <br />I gave it another layer of medium and had supper. 8:24, <br />Now I'm painting with just ammonia and pigment on the base, it's just like working in the colors in fresco.<br />I held my lighter over an area on the left bottom, it got darker as the wax became shinny and exposed the lower layers. <br /><br />I added some damar varnish to the cera colla to paint the edges, it mixed well and stayed water soluble but disengaged as I applied wet strokes over dry strokes. I'm not going to bother taking the emulsion to the oil side, it works fine with water, ammonia water works best.<br /><br />I finished the little cera colla and set it aside to dry. In the morning it was still fragile so I put it in the sun to melt and solidify it.<br /><br />It sat in the sun for 5 hours and the wax was soft. I dipped the whole panel in water and rubbed it down with my fingers, then a soft rag and water. It does glow, I have a permanent painting that will not change colors ever, only wax can say that, acrylics will probably past the time test too. This is a perfect medium for an out of reach location in a home. It can take the outside, it melts, feels and protects like wax. Today, there are trace remains of colored wax on the Trojan Column in Rome.<br /><br />Ok! I got it.. First put down a layer of cera colla or two and let them set. Lay another layer and paint on the wet layer with pigment and ammonia water. You can always add another layer of cera colla. On top of the pigment layer paint on two more cera colla layers. Make it as thick as you want, it won't crack. The sun or a warm day will farther fuse it. Time is waxes friend.<br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/ceracolla.htg/ccorchidfin800.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> <br /><br />Ready to paint another cera colla. Start looking for a subject. 09-21-04, 2:36 PM.<br /><br />3:00. Troweled on the cera colla just like an intonaco for fresco and put it out in the sun.<br /><br />I found the subject, 2 EGGPLANTS AND A LIME. Purple and yellow-green are complements.<br /><br />5:00, I'm going to wait until I need to turn the lights on so I'll have constant lighting.<br /><br />HA.. the next morning I started. http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1093059399/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1093059399/0#0 Sat, 21 Aug 2004 03:36:39 GMT (Admin note, SharonD was a guest not an ex/member, this new forum can't find here Email address and the old forum didn't need it.)<br />Hi<br /> Has anyone tried the water soluble oil paints? I have done a few paintings using them and it took some time an effort to get use to them. Right now I'm working on a still life with a silver tea pot and brass mug. I got so involved in figuring out the values that would make the metal look like metal that I didn't even notice that the paint was flowing better than ever before. Although I mostly paint in acrylics, I think I will be using these paints a whole lot more.<br />I know Don says no black, but the instructor I am studying with at this time uses Lamp black, Ivory black and indigo to get paint silver objects. His work is super realistic. His website is billlevers.com if any one is interested. when I use black in my paintings, I usually mix from other colors which gives me a much more colorful and alive black. Once I get the hang of painting silver, I'll experiment. http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1082362749/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1082362749/0#0 Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:19:09 GMT The chestnuts are [finally] in blossom in Paris, after a slow, cool spring.  Just as the weather turns nice, we are boarding a plane for the US -- the "old country" as my grandmother used to call the land of her birth. <br /> <br />Her old country, Poland, conjured up ideas of short people in aprons with horses and wagons.  My old country, the US, is different -- it is the place I go to visit family and find work.  It hearkens pictures of athletic shoes and great big cars.  My grandmother never went back to her old country.<br /> <br />We have American and French friends who have found other "new countries".  A friend from New York moved to Beijing.  The nephew of a French friend has left to study medicine there.  Another friend now lives in Moscow. <br /> <br />It is with mixed feelings I visit the US.  My friends here give me a hard time about going back.  Just packing my bag for the trip puts me at odds -- I never think two weeks ahead; what I wear there and wear here are different.  The best thing about going back is that everything is easier for me in English.  I could sell the Brooklyn Bridge.<br /> <br />Soft brown honeybees were flying all over town this week.  They were making sweet work of the cherry blossoms. I could see them in the steeply slanting light at the end of the day, finishing up a few more flowers before flying back to the hive. <br /> <br />I sometimes envy the bees, knowing just what to do each day of their life.  They never question whether they are the drone or the queen.  Does a bee decide he will goof off today, drinking beer at the cafe, or spending an hour in the window of the pastry shop?  There is one of Dante's hells to pay when he arrives back home.  We just don't hear about it.  Scientists throw out data like that.<br /> <br />I am sure my butterflies will hatch from their cocoons as soon as we are airborne, above the English Channel.  A friend of ours sells surveillance cameras, and we tried to persuade him to keep  an eye on our pets.  The camera reports back to any computer, and has a zoom, so we could see each unfolding wing.  <br /> <br />This was good week for painting outdoors and Blair painted this week's cherry blossoms, to the tune of the humming bees. <br /> <br />We went to the Andre Jacquemart museum to see a Botticelli Nativity.  The guard at the museum was wonderfully chatty -- he provided us with a magnifying glass to inspect some marquetry.  He explained how the "golden hand" in a marble bas relief was the hand of God, swatting fleas to protect the workers in the field from the plague.  He kept a close watch on my hands as I translated his words to two young friends.<br /> <br />The chess players are out in the park, along with the chestnut blossoms and the bees.  The chess boards are the great equalizer:  young and old, men and women, Jew and Arab, American and Russian all start out the game alike.  Little clocks tick away as each man makes his move.  Hands move so quickly that sometimes I can't see just what is happening.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/YaBBattachments/lauri4-16-4cherryb.JPG" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br /> <br />Laurie (text) and Blair (painting) PESSEMER http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1078400012/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1078400012/0#0 Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:33:32 GMT Mettam's Pool 5"x9" completed in 1.5 hrs. It quite quite hot and as you can probably see, sand and dust blew into the wet paint <br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/YaBBattachments/METTAMS_POOL_2.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /> http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1075323449/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1075323449/0#0 Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:57:29 GMT I am not here to display my work (such as it is) but ask for help. Are they some guidelines as to the styles of stroke a palette knife can make on canvas? I have several knives but other than trial an error, I still wonder if they each have a certain effect when used.<br /><br />I study Howard Behrens work and he must use certain knives for certain effects, but which? http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1067043514/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1067043514/0#0 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 00:58:34 GMT Dear Don:<br /><br />I am a University Professor in Medicine (two years of work in USA in St.Louis, I have been in Hawaii also), and an oil  painter without formal training but regularly, and rigorously trained for 10 years by the most famous Hungarian landscape artist the late Imre Puskas, and self-trained in Art History, Old Master, principles, techniques, etc. I am also an expert in computer technology, and tried my hand with graphic softwares like Painter since version 3, Photoshop, PSP, Poser etc.<br />        I have a nice studio and since 1985 I have produced more than 300 oil paintings.<br />For me the most difficult part is still pigment color selection. Through an Internet search I have found your site, and I am greatly impressed, and planning to buy your CD Lessons. I am planning to devote more time to my painting in a more serious manner. Attached please find an example of my paintings, the colors are not correct, because my friend used a polaroid filter while photographing it.<br />        Please let me know if you could mail your CD to Europe, then I will buy it.<br />        Thank you very much<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Janos<br /><br /><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/YaBBattachments/HerczegFarmhouse3_102403.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /><br />Prof.Dr.Janos HERCZEG http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1064624399/0#0 Painting on Location with Real Color Wheel/Artists,  Oil,  Alkyd,  Resin and Oil/Wax Paintings http://realcolorwheel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1064624399/0#0 Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:59:59 GMT <center>The Plein Air Artwork of artist<br />Brenda Hofreiter<br />will be on display at<br />1st Thursday's "Art in Nature" Exhibition at<br />Orlando Museum of Art<br />Thursday, October 2nd<br />6:00 - 9:00 p.m.<br /></center><br /><center><img src="http://www.realcolorwheel.com/YaBBattachments/BrendaHboathousecypgrv.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /></center>