For those interested:

1/3rd each: Linseed oil, turpentine, and sun-thickened Linseed oil.

Takes awhile to dry, but wow. Given to me by a someone who was a portrait-painter with Met connections. Goes back to Velasquez origins, although they liked to use olive oil.

Thanks. I’ve been using Venice Turpentine a lot as a medium lately (it’s really a resin), with a spot of Pale Drying Oil. Do love how it dries quickly and holds the hues and values so well. I’ll have a poke at your combo, though, as I love Velasquez, Rubens, Van Dyck, et al.

1/3rd each: Linseed oil, turpentine, and sun-thickened Linseed oil.

Takes awhile to dry, but wow. Given to me by a someone who was a portrait-painter with Met connections. Goes back to Velasquez origins, although they liked to use olive oil.

LS @ 267

OMG. My two favorites! I paint also..oils. My paintings are similar to both Hopper and Rothko! Campadres!!

And Comadres!

Yes!!

Valley Girl @ 249

ah! light! Edward Hopper? And, as for abstract? Mark Rothko. Both very profound artists.

OMG. My two favorites! I paint also..oils. My paintings are similar to both Hopper and Rothko! Campadres!!

And Comadres!

Valley Girl –

I’ve tried twice now to send a comment your way, in response to something I found brilliant in your remarks. And now twice it’s not showing up.

Not even in the “held for moderation” way. I give up, and will send you an email later tonight.

Just wondering what’s wrong on my end with this techno stuff!!

Mrs. K8- your comment is up- do a hard refresh.

it’s here

Well, that is a huge compliment, because you are so much more eloquent than I am.

BTW, no apologies needed. Just email me whenever you want to. xxoo

LS @ 282

I get an idea. Work on it.

Then paint from feeling.

I like that too. I try not to have the idea. I fight the “idea” even. I fight all the “rules”. It is there, but I find out later, as it develops. I am usually surprised. I just detach and go for it.

Loo Hoo. @ 244

No,don’t be embarrassed. Ed Schultz is not MSM, he’s on Air America which has lousy signals.

Really? I get him on AA.

Schultz is not on AA Hes on the Jones network

Oops.

My “refresh comments” button was not working, I needed to refresh the whole page the old-fashioned way, I guess.

And now I see I used one of those normal English words that hides a pharmaceutical spam item within it. Sigh. I wish my monitor had shown that my comment was in moderation. Don’t know why it didn’t.

But I’ll try to be better in future. My first comment to you came through, showing now as number 263 on my screen. Sorry for any confusion. I’ll retreat now and call it a day.

Loo Hoo. @ 262

selise, who is Jeremy Scahill?

he wrote the book on blackwater (really). he’s an amazing investigative reporter, Democracy Now! correspondent, Nation fellow and he won his george polk award in 1998 with amy goodman for their documentary, “Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship”

here’s an interview he did yesterday on Democracy Now! – Can Iraq (or Anyone) Hold Blackwater Accountable for Killing Iraqi Civilians? A Debate on the Role of Private Contractors in Iraq

He was on C-spans Washington Journalthis morning. If you link and go to today’s show and move the bar to the last one half hour of the show it will say 2hrs and 30 min you can just watch him.

http://www.c-span.org/homepage…..iveDays=30

Jonathan @ 270

LS, what is your approach?

I never know what I am going to paint until I begin. I love texture, color, depth, and my paintings are usually completely different by the time I realize they are “done”, than when I began. I try to just let fly. I love sun-thickened linseed oil. I want the colors to explode when light hits them. A friend gave me a classical medium formula years ago, and I use it. I sculpt texture and then allow the color to bring it to life…something like that. I try to stay in the moment, and never plan it. I fight the urge to plan it. Just let it go…like a stream of consciousness…and I am always surprised. I want the chaos, but I am always surprised by the result. If I plan, I can’t get the result, which is the response that is not a “word”…it is a gut feeling.

do you paint from feeling?

from a plan?

I get an idea. Work on it.

Then paint from feeling.