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Underpaintings

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Glazing in Oil and Acrylic

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Painting With Acrylics

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Grisaille For Its Own Sake

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Painting Glass

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Kalf’s Lost Lemon

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My Process in Detail

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Lost and Found Edges

A Quick Perspective Trick

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The Grisaille Underpainting

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Painting Metal

Cultivating the Habit of Beauty

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A Grisaille omits most – but not all – details

Using the Grid Transfer Method to Copy the Image onto the Panel

The Ébauche is an underpainting with dulled colors

A Thumbnail Sketch Simplifies the Start

Glazes on top of the underpainting

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“Still life is an alchemy of sorts, allowing us to transmute oil, pigment, and canvas into a grand illusion of shimmering light, profound stillness, and gracious refinement.”