I have been a busy bee in studio with two shows coming up soon. It's about time to show some close-up shots of the studio. Yep.... that's a tool chest I recently requisitioned from the garage. It's got a built in power-strip ~ how cool is that? I've lately fallen in love with Natural Pigments Rublev…
Category: studio notes
Painting and Memory
Painting is the power of suggestion. There is nature and then there is art. When painting you look at something, and then you have to shift your eye to the canvas. There's a few seconds where there's only memory to guide you. It would be interesting if some real authority investigated carefully the part which memory…
An approach on how to learn to paint (recommended books)
There are two schools of thought on how to learn to paint. The first is the atelier based education where technique takes precedence over vision with the goal that if you know how to draw/paint what's in front of you, you can then have leisure to cultivate a vision. The second school proposes that once…
Young Pierrot as Hunter
I worked on my new little Pierrot intermittently over the course of a month. I knew I wanted an austere background, gray and atmospheric but I didn't know how to give form to the original idea. Almost through serendipity, I happened on a lovely and very gray George Inness at the American Impressionism show at the New…
Painting on Copper Panels
An oil sketch on copper of a dead bird I found on my morning walk. See the photo here. I thought it fitting to paint this bird on my first copper panel painting. Here's a traditional method of preparing the copper plate with garlic from National Gallery Technical Bulletin Volume 20: Painting in Antwerp and London: Rubens and…
FATIMA RONQUILLO 
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