Behind the Painting

Always open come rain or shine: Painting Fire Station 2

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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Lost granite in Williamson County: Painting the Brushy Creek trail

Behind the Painting / Matulart

Williamson County is booming. People, jobs, traffic, crime and real estate development all hit the sleepy county north of Travis two decades ago like a storm that never let up. That’s the price of close proximity to Austin these days: a blessing and a curse. Things weren’t always this way in the area known as

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