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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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Finding greenspace on a forgotten frontier highway: painting McKinney Falls

Behind the Painting / Matulart

Just south of Austin, if you look closely and don’t drive too fast, you can find a tiny piece of Texas’s first super highway wedged between a golf course and the massive airport. The El Camino Real de los Tejas ran between the big town of Monclova in Coahuila, crossed the shallow Rio Grande and

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