Painting Demonstrations and Tips
I will add to this page paintings done in stages in the future. If you have any technical questions about painting send me an email or blog me. 

Below are three paintings in progress for people who are interested in my approach to making art:

Pale Orange Rose, 30x30 oil on board

Crimson Magic, 11x14, oil on board

Painting Tips:

If you look at my "About Brian" page you will see hundreds of tubes of paint on shelves to my left.  Many of those tubes of paint started out as empty tubes which I filled with carefully mixed paint.  No, I didn't clean out old tubes; I bought new empty ones. I mixed the exact color and viscosity that I needed for the painting I was working on at the time. I also use empty tubes for the  Maroger medium  that I cook  myself. Maroger medium is my favorite and formula for making it is on my site in the "Teaching" section. I find it valuable to use premixed colors especially for large paintings. It's great to have a critical color right at my finger tips in a tube. I am spared the headache of  mixing it again from scratch.  When I was much younger, I spent hours trying to get back to a color that I needed because the pile I had made originally was used up or dried up. And, I made huge piles of paint that were wrong trying to get back to it. I'll bet you have too. With empty tubes, the pile that was bad can be tubed and saved for another painting. The left over paint from the current painting will be used at some point too. I buy the tubes by the thousands; if anyone wants some, contact me and I will sell them to you. They are hard to find, unless you buy them in huge quantities as I have. It may seem like a lot of boring work at the beginning of a project but I believe that in the long run the effort pays off. Brian