My Oil Painting Palette

There is no such thing as a correct or neutral palette. Every palette has an agenda; it aids and even encourages you to paint a certain way.

Time for Sargent

The necessity to impress patrons tinges everything Sargent painted; ever the master of prestidigitation, even in his relaxed moments he is a thoroughly public artist. No other major painter’s manual dexterity is so central to his identity.
I’m lucky in the sense that I am able to portray my feelings with a brush rather easily. I don’t know whether I can attribute this to slow accumulation over a lifetime—looking at so many paintings, the careful observation of everything.

Back to Basics

Mixed-media artist Mariano Del Rosario praises the simple, quotidian tools he uses to make art.

Take Five

In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum’s encyclopedic holdings, “Take Five” is a series of posts where artists describe the lessons that any five works in the collection have taught them about their craft or life as an artist.