Signing your painting
Artists haven’t always signed their work. The role of the artist began to shift during the Renaissance, when ideas of individual creativity and the artist’s status as an intellectual rather than a craftsman became…
Category: philosophy
Information on paints
This text is about Swedish online shops with artist materials. It is probably not interesting for visitors from other countries, or this problem is more general and applies to you as well. Swedish online…
Color mixing chart
Do an image search on ”mixing watercolors” or similar, and you will get results that look like the image above. Diagrams of different watercolors mixed in a grid, which I’m sure takes a long…
Is green paint unnecessary
In many of my students’ paint boxes, green colors are overrepresented. Personally, I probably have more green colors than others. Still, I almost never use green paint to paint green, preferring to mix my…
Is blue the most important color?
When I teach about colors for the first time with my students, I usually say that the color blue is important, perhaps the most important of all. On the other hand, I have met…
Color names
I really wish the manufacturers of artist paints could give their paints sensible names, but above all: the same name for the same color. If I recommend phthalo green to a student who uses…
Talent or no talent…
One of the most common statements I hear in my courses is: “I can not draw”. Then I usually ask “how often do you draw?” the answer is always the same: Never. No one…
