An art student told me you can use vegetable oil to rinse your brushes in so i started using just linseed oil which was also the medium. This worked so well for me with oils and then no toxic fumes from the turps and damar.
I think this is due to the modern church pastoral system. Where there is one man (“pastor”) you’re supposed to submit to. And go there once a week etc. Instead of being led by the Holy Spirit.
Actually the whole....white.... idea behind painting, Is...... you are really painting the reflected colors on the..... white. Like painting chrome, you are painting the reflection. It's ALL illusionary. White is not white, neither is chrome.
PBS has done a great disservice in so limiting the airing of these in favor of the happy tree big brush palette knife guy who, while kind and got general folks to give painting a try, did nothing (or very little) to educate people about the fundamentals and craft of old school traditional oil painting. Sending love to you , Helen, in your spirit world hanging out with Rembrandt!
I learned early in my painting life that white in any usage is the most complex color to achieve in a believable way. It seems white is never really white and often is an amalgam of many subtle parts of the spectrum.
Highly enjoyable to watch her do her stuff. I used to tune in on PBS many moons ago when they used to broadcast Welcome to My Studio. She was a talented lady, and also quite funny sometimes when she spoke her mind. Shame she passed away from cancer at 64 in 1994.
She was the BEST. I know she made at least 10 (probably a lot more) series of 13 shows per series, yet my PBS stations only run those of other artists. I did get to see quite a few of her shows in the 90's but they never run them here anymore. Such a huge amount of knowledge wasting away on the shelves somewhere. I'm glad to see at least a few of them here on You Tube. For anyone interested, she did write several books & they're exactly the quality you would expect from her. I wonder if she had any idea how much & how many she would affect in the world of oil painting. She is truly missed.
I think this might still be her real hair, but later when she had cancer, she was definitely wearing wigs. Her own hair was a bright and very silvery white. All, I know, is I miss her!
Of all the PBS oil painters, she was my favorite and the most knowledgeable about the hows and whys of light and pigment. She also seemed like she'd be a lot of fun to hang out with.
I'll never forget an exercise an art teacher did one class - with a projector that accepted colored glass slides, he lined up one color after another, and the more slides he added, the paler the color on the screen. When all slides were installed, the screen was white.
