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What I’ve Learned Working as a (Poorly Trained) Renaissance Artist
I have been trying to teach myself Renaissance painting methods for over a year now in my spare time. I have learned so much about paint materials and developing an artistic process. The biggest lesson I’m still working on learning is patience. Everything about this process takes time. Sourcing pigments takes time. Grinding paints takes…
Cyanotype Blues
This will be a quick talk on making cyanotypes. I considered making cyanotypes the long, elaborate way about a year ago. Creating my own chemicals probably would have not worked, and would have raised a few eyebrows with my internet search history into cyanide. I settled for making cyanotypes the easy way with chemicals from…
Gesso You Know…
I embarked on my next task in historic painting methods by tackling the very ground that my art would go on. “Ground” in art terms usually means the surface that gets worked on, most commonly canvas or wood panel. I decided that if I was already going down the rabbit hole of historic painting, I…
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