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The Grounds
The process of constructing and preparing a canvas can take nearly as long as painting the painting itself. First the building, cutting,...
jderoulet
Sep 10, 20141 min read
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Meditation on Materials
When my friends visit my house, I always make a point to have them run a hand across the surface of a painting. Everyone secretly wants...
jderoulet
Aug 26, 20142 min read
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Sprague Diary (Inspiration for "Witness")
"Santana" 7/8/14 John deRoulet "Butter tinted sunlight dripping thickly through dusty air. 100 degrees and dry except for the cellophane...
jderoulet
Aug 19, 20143 min read
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Crafting a Response
“Part of the problem is that artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally...
jderoulet
Aug 5, 20143 min read
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Subject Matters
“After all, the error rests in the mistaken idea that the subject of a painting is the object painted.” – Robert Henri My current...
jderoulet
Jul 29, 20143 min read
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Vision Quest
Cover: Parnassus by Mark Tobey There is a show at the Seattle art museum on a group of artists coined the North West Mystics by a 1953...
jderoulet
Jul 22, 20143 min read
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Cool Thoughts
**Image: Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train by artist Jeff Koons. "The sculpture was created in 1986 as part of a Jeff Koons exhibition called...
jderoulet
Jul 8, 20143 min read
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Short Meditation on Color
“Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent…When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over...
jderoulet
Jul 1, 20142 min read
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The Calling
"The Calling of St. Matthew" by Caravaggio, painted in 1600 AD for an Italian church named for the Saint is one of my favorite paintings....
jderoulet
Jun 24, 20145 min read
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Accessing the Inner Eye
"Everything has two aspects: the current aspect which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical...
jderoulet
Jun 17, 20144 min read
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The Problem with Photography and Painting
"Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes...
jderoulet
Jun 3, 20145 min read
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The Funeral and the Thirsty Fish
In October of last year, I came across a quote while meandering on reddit. It stopped my browsing in its tracks and I had to pause to...
jderoulet
May 20, 20144 min read
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Contemporary Painting
“Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that "looks like art" and behave in...
jderoulet
May 13, 20144 min read
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Lautrec and La Rouge
"I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record." -Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The painting above is one of my absolute favorites....
jderoulet
May 6, 20143 min read
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Collecting Art
"I had a large collection of various artists, but there were no Picassos. Friends told me that I ought to buy at least one of his works,...
jderoulet
Apr 21, 20146 min read
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Chicago and the Art Institute
At the end of March, I took a trip to Chicago. It was my first time planning and taking a trip on my own and I hope to make a habit of...
jderoulet
Apr 15, 20143 min read
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