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Returning to Oil: The Prequel

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Brenda Clough

About this time last year I was blogging about my return to oil painting. Long ago in my life two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I instinctively took one rather than the other. I became a writer, pouring … Continue reading →

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Returning to Oil: 4.0

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Brenda Clough

by Brenda W. Clough  This past Saturday was my last oil-painting class, and I have finished the fourth version of this landscape. My instructor assures me this is the best version yet. This was a paint-from photograph class, and as … Continue reading →

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Returning to Oil: Talent Has Its Limits

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Brenda Clough

by Brenda W. Clough  I had dinner with  my sister and brother this past weekend, and we were discussing (as one does) life. How do you know when you’ve ‘made it’? My sister said that she realized she had achieved … Continue reading →

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Returning to Oil: Loosening Up

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Brenda Clough

by Brenda W. Clough In my painting class this week one of the other pupils remarked on my ability and interest in reworking the same basic scene. He himself never paints anything twice. This man has clearly never written a … Continue reading →

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Returning to Oil: On Beyond Zebra

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Brenda Clough

by Brenda W. Clough If there’s anything I’ve learned from being creative, it’s that you don’t just stay here. Like in the song, you move on — beyond the photo, beyond the plot, through to something new.Something of your own! … Continue reading →

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Returning to Oil: Bigger, Darker

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Brenda Clough

by Brenda W. Clough  One of the things that I am prone to (I remember now!) is green. Somehow everything I paint in oil is very, very green. I don’t even like green! Other people can paint landscapes that are … Continue reading →

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Returning to Oil: A First Stab

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Brenda Clough

by Brenda W. Clough Here is the studio in the underground S. Dillon Ripley Center at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. An, oh dear, now I remember. There’s a reason why I shifted to water color, to acrylic, to … Continue reading →

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Returning to Oil: Materials

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Brenda Clough

by Brenda W. Clough  The first thing to do when you decide to make something? Go shopping! Only the highest and most abstruse creativity calls for no equipment at all — philosophy, maybe? Everybody else needs stuff. Mathematicians need gigantic … Continue reading →

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