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How to paint

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Mary Beth Frezon

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak … Continue reading →

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From the Quote Box

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci

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From Vincent

Posted on September 24, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like … Continue reading →

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