The Grounds
The process of constructing and preparing a canvas can take nearly as long as painting the painting itself. First the building, cutting,...
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jderoulet
- Aug 26, 2014
- 2 min
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...
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jderoulet
- Aug 19, 2014
- 3 min
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...
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jderoulet
- Aug 5, 2014
- 3 min
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...
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jderoulet
- Jul 29, 2014
- 3 min
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...
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jderoulet
- Jul 22, 2014
- 3 min
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...
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jderoulet
- Jul 8, 2014
- 3 min
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...
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jderoulet
- Jul 1, 2014
- 2 min
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...
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jderoulet
- Jun 24, 2014
- 5 min
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....
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jderoulet
- Jun 17, 2014
- 4 min
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...
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jderoulet
- Jun 3, 2014
- 5 min
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...
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jderoulet
- May 20, 2014
- 4 min
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...
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jderoulet
- May 13, 2014
- 4 min
Contemporary Painting
“Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that "looks like art" and behave in...
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jderoulet
- May 6, 2014
- 3 min
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....
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jderoulet
- Apr 21, 2014
- 6 min
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,...
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jderoulet
- Apr 15, 2014
- 3 min
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...
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