Category Archives: painting

Today, a fellow artist told me about Gillian Ayres. I had never heard of her, so I looked her up. In the 4 seconds it took me to conduct a Google image search, I knew I had discovered a new source of inspiration. I mean, just look at this painting. It’s a riot of color.Continue reading “Gillian Ayres”

It’s a thin book that I picked up who knows where. Hawthorne on Painting (google books) is comprised of the collected notes of students of Charles Webster Hawthorne, a painter of some renown at the turn of the previous century. Hawthorne’s instructions were intended for beginning students, but they’re quite applicable to a modern artist.Continue reading “Hawthorne on painting”