Cakes and Honey
Watercolor cakes: first invented by William Reeves in 1766 and sold in an improved form in 1780, watercolor cakes made …
Tag Archives: painting
Kits, Boxes, Sticks, and All
Once again, I’m looking into artists’ materials and techniques, though instead of trying to kit myself out for the early …
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity
The authentic matters, the real matters. It is different. Great art leaps from the surface of the paper and lives. …
What Pinterest Can Do, or, Asher Durand
At the Brandywine River Museum, I saw an Asher B. Durand landscape and said, “I haven’t thought about Asher Durand …
