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Just passing through: Catching the colors in Crowell

There is plenty of color in Texas, at least so far as place names go. There’s Amarillo, Gruene, Orange, Violet, Carmine, Glen Rose, Brown County, Blanco, Piedras Negras and the Red River. That’s quite a palette, but not really representative of the colors one sees here in the landscape. Vast areas, most of the state […]

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Always open come rain or shine: Painting Fire Station 2

Behind the Painting / Matulart

There is an oil painting technique known as “wet on wet”. The instructor at the Laguna Gloria Art School taught my class about it when I started painting ten years ago, but I am still not sure exactly what it involves. Painting plein air on a Saturday morning in the spring rain is not it.

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