Good Advice

Looking Through • 18" x 36" • Oil on Linen on Panel

Available information wisely used is far more valuable than multiplied information allowed to lie fallow.

- Dallin H. Oaks

The above quote makes me think about the following pattern - which seems to be a recipe for sanity in this age of information.

  

Look • Learn • Ponder • Apply

LOOK for the information you need until you find it.

LEARN from the best sources possible.

PONDER what you learn.

APPLY the new insights gained.

Number 9

And finally . . . number 9, the final painting of the Elements and Principles series.  (The July/August issue of The Artist's Magazine is available here.)

Number 8

This painting does feature yellow paint straight from the tube, but alas, no, chroma, is not the principle illustrated.

The Seventh Painting

There are officially four principles being shown by "Art" in this painting.

The Sixth Painting

Here's a close-up of this background . . .  (Another very difficult painting to photograph.)

Painting Number 5

Here's the fifth painting of the series.  And here are some "making of" shots.

Painting Number 4

A little behind the scenes note on this painting, it is a REALLY hard painting to photograph.  I used pure white for the background - (click here if you'd like to see a close-up of the white impasto on my facebook page) and when the image is exposed for pure white the color fades away.  This isn't the best reproduction of it, but there will be a better reproduction of it on my website in early June.  Just a note - this painting was painted using only three colors, plus black and white.   Can anyone guess which colors - here's a hint, they're made by Lukas. . .