Save Your Holiday Cookie Cans!

Holiday cookie cans make THE perfect airtight storage cans for the rags used in oil painting! I put a fresh plastic bag in before each painting session to make it easy to clean up and seal the can up tight when I'm done painting. Each week right before trash pick-up, out the bagged up rags go. So, eat up the cookies (save a few for Santa, of course!) and hijack that can straight to your studio!

New Video - The Painter's Palette & How to Set-up a Glass Palette

The palettes of several famous artists including a range from Degas to Van Gogh are shown in the video I just uploaded. I've always found painter's palettes to be fascinating. For me, the highlight of an afternoon I spent in Delacroix's studio in Paris was seeing his palette (and the secret garden his studio opened out on!)

When visiting N.C. Wyeth's studio (read blog post), you can walk right up to his easel and see his palette as he left it. To think of the masterpieces that emerged from this very palette!

Click here if you would like to watch the video. In it I also show how to set up and use a glass palette. I hope you enjoy it!

N.C. Wyeth's Painting Supplies

The studio of the great illustrator N. C. Wyeth, in the Brandywine Valley of Pennsylvania, is fascinating to visit because everything has been maintained pretty much as it was during his lifetime.  You can walk right up to his easel with his last work in progress and see exactly what painting supplies he used to create his masterpieces. Here is the table to the left of his easel. The tin boxes in the back contain (or contained??--I did not get see inside these!) his paint tubes. Thanks goes to his children who had the foresight to preserve this wonderland for generations of future artists!