tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post4973013108980127752..comments2024-01-18T08:14:28.278-05:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Tubing paintStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-40493195355380536322012-10-28T10:44:26.903-04:002012-10-28T10:44:26.903-04:00Very very useful thanks. Have wondering about tub...Very very useful thanks. Have wondering about tubing my own paints for some time now.Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07481960141545069306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-51294356196305498292012-06-18T19:17:02.474-04:002012-06-18T19:17:02.474-04:00Thanks so much for this post! It is invaluable for...Thanks so much for this post! It is invaluable for those of us wanting to use more paint and save money. I originally found your blog while searching for more info about RGH paints, and I just spent way too much time reading your other useful materials posts so I could get back to this one, as I am tubing mine for the first time. So far, so good! BTW, loving the RGH paints. Appreciate all that you share!Arty Quinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06460538532828328593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-47482820318232951102011-08-18T22:10:57.459-04:002011-08-18T22:10:57.459-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ronaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14122610658920624378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-63426521010149258332011-08-18T22:09:38.146-04:002011-08-18T22:09:38.146-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ronaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14122610658920624378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-79451766539317247842011-08-07T20:13:13.230-04:002011-08-07T20:13:13.230-04:00Hi,
Just found your blog and I went back to the fi...Hi,<br />Just found your blog and I went back to the first post you made and am working my way through.<br />I just started taking up painting again and am loving it but haven't a clue, really, what I'm doing! But still fun.<br /> I do have a small business so I can only devote one day to painting right now.<br />After reading your post on filling up your tubes, I wondered if you've ever tried using ( hang on...it's going to sound weird!) but have you ever tried using a pastry bag? You can fill the bag with paint, much like a cake decorator fills the bag with frosting, and just squeeze the paint out of the bag and into the tube. See...I told you it's a weird idea!<br />Anyway, just a thought!<br />Now back to your blog.<br />Thanks,<br />SusanSusanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02220250453773715090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-8730420614007671332009-01-23T10:19:00.000-05:002009-01-23T10:19:00.000-05:00Mary;I almost never paint smaller than 16x20 outsi...Mary;<BR/>I almost never paint smaller than 16x20 outside.I sometimes work 11x14 but I am happiest working on 24x30s or 24x36s or 30x40s. I have worked as large as 36x48. These are not studies but the actual painting.<BR/>There have been a lot of books written lately by artists who make small studies outside and blow them up into big paintings inside. But my heroes, People like Willard Metcalf or Aldro Hibbard or Edward Seago, worked full size on the easel outdoors. I do work on them in the studio, sometimes a lot.<BR/>Working small has the advantage of allowing you to develop simple designs because you can survey all of the canvas easily, including the relationship of its different parts.You can also make a zillion small sketches and use the very best of many to create a finished painting.The best of the contemporary western painters are able to blow these up without losing that simple design. But it also gives a "look" Which is OK too, if that's what you want.<BR/> I find however that working small outside adds a problem, miniaturization. Big world, tiny painting. I also am a brushwork guy and I feel like I get better brushwork when I work with big brushes, and not little tiny ones. Lastly even though I work on them in the studio there is something a little special about a painting made outside that can evaporate in one made from another, painted outside. In able hands both approaches may yield great results, and what I have told you is simply my preference and not the "right" w3ay to do it.<BR/>I use a Gloucester easel,you can see it in the picture on my post entitled hello. Its a huge tripod and my heavy box full of paint sits on the struts across its middle at waist height.It is very stable, so unless it is incredibly windy I don't have a problem. When it blows really hard I add a bungee cord to hold the painting into the easel and then I can work in anything short of a typhoon. No, I don't need any help carrying my easel and paintings to location. I am six foot four and weigh over 200 pounds.<BR/>I guess I will need to do a couple of posts on easels won't I?<BR/>Keep asking questions please, if I am going to make this blog useful it really helps me. ThanxStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-64431727526099312032009-01-22T20:13:00.000-05:002009-01-22T20:13:00.000-05:00Oh my goodness! That does seem like a lot of work...Oh my goodness! That does seem like a lot of work - I guess that I don't use enough paint to warrent tubing my own. <BR/> You mentioned that you sometimes work on large canvases outside - so these are not studies, but the actual finished painting you work on plein air? How large are we talking about here? Do you have help carrying your canvas and supplies? <BR/> So far, I have only used relatively small canvases when I paint outside - 12x16 up to 16x20.<BR/>Do you find that the wind catches the larger canvases? How do you anchor your easel and canvas><BR/> Sorry for all the questions.<BR/>Mary<BR/><A HREF="http://www.marybullock.com" REL="nofollow">The Figurative Realm of Mary Bullock</A>Mary Bullockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09718356993209078250noreply@blogger.com