Christopher Volpe's Art Blog

One artist/art historian's random take on the world's great paintings.

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Sequencing: A Creative Exercise for Oils

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The River Gallery School sells a booklet on the process for $15. A couple of weeks ago I plunged into a painting class while visiting f...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Spring Tufts

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File under "humble subject matter." One of art's tasks in our time is to reveal beauty in the mundane, to raise the commonplac...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

The First Painting I Ever Saw

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My parents had a print of a European harbor scene that occupied a place of honor in my boyhood home. It hung over our  wooden record cabinet...
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Sunday, March 2, 2014

Painting a Sensation

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This week in my weekly painting workshop in Lowell we set ourselves the task of painting the sensation of flowers - we were to paint not the...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Abstract Musings

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Tomorrow evening in my weekly Tuesday evening painting workshop we’ll be pushing paint around with the goal of creating what I'd like to...
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Thursday, February 6, 2014

New Addition to My Studio

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I just added this great new palette to my studio.   I know, it's not the tools but how you use them. Still, I have to speak up...
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