Love and friendship December 31, 2021 Carol L. Douglas A friend is a friend, and love is love, no matter if it comes by airmail or through the internet,… Continue Reading →
Busman’s holiday December 29, 2021 Carol L. Douglas Good technique means laying off the weird experiments, and pouring your creativity into the narrow area that matters—the content itself.… Continue Reading →
Monday Morning Art School: why study art history? December 27, 2021 Carol L. Douglas Understanding the major movements in western art will make you a better painter. Yo Yos, 1963, Wayne Thiebaud, courtesy Albright-Knox… Continue Reading →
Christmas Eve memories December 24, 2021 Carol L. Douglas It wasn’t Santa Claus but it was magic nevertheless. Santa toy, oil on archival canvasboard, $435 in a narrow silver… Continue Reading →
Go outdoors and enjoy the weather December 22, 2021 Carol L. Douglas “’The trick,’ said I, turning on my stool with coffee cup in hand, ‘is not to adopt a siege mentality.’”… Continue Reading →
Monday Morning Art School: the opacity of paints December 20, 2021 Carol L. Douglas To understand refraction, just remember that hideous invention of the 1970s, the wet t-shirt contest. The Logging Truck, 16X20, oil… Continue Reading →
What is essential? December 17, 2021 Carol L. Douglas That’s a question that operates on both the technical and the spiritual planes. Beautiful Dream, oil on canvasboard, 12X16, $1449… Continue Reading →
Imagination without follow-through is mere fantasy December 15, 2021 Carol L. Douglas If not now, when? If not you, who? The Late Bus, 6X8, oil on canvasboard, $435, available through Camden Public… Continue Reading →
Monday Morning Art School: color harmonies and accidental color December 13, 2021 Carol L. Douglas Color harmonies are easy enough for a kindergartener to understand, but devilishly difficult to apply in paint. Landscape at Saint-Rémy… Continue Reading →
In praise of large paintings December 10, 2021 Carol L. Douglas It’s a mistake to think of our large canvases as drugs on the market. They’re often the most important work… Continue Reading →