Re: secrets of the masters$$$ pt 1

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Re: secrets of the masters$$$ pt 1

In Reply to: Re: secrets of the masters$$$ pt 1 posted by Will on 09/12/00 at 8:46 PM:

Will, thanks for those excerpts from van de Wetering's book. They bring up yet another reason to revere that master. His was a very complex series of procedures which appears to have changed from picture to picture, as the demands of the subject dictated.

One of the reasons that I advocate painters learning more about the chemical structures of their materials is because it opens up doors of possibility left closed by the narrow application of just a few principles, eg. the 'fat over lean' mantra.

I have been recently at work on a video which is devoted to understanding painting mediums. It jam packed with information concerning the four qualities every good painting medium needs and how to attain them through the knowledge of what the individual ingredients produce. A fair section of the video is devoted to a discussion of glue emulsion and egg emulsions and how they work.

Once an artist becomes familiar with the various properties inherent in various oils, gums, glues, starches, resins, balsams, waxes and cooked mediums, the world opens up to them. What's more important is they can then look at a Rembrandt or a Velasquez and not be totally mystified as to how those masters obtained their effects. Certainly, no nostrum in a bottle will ever take the place of genius, but many of those effects can be duplicated by those who are willing to experiment with materials not easily got in the average art store.