Re: Rembrandt info. and painting

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Re: Rembrandt info. and painting

In Reply to: Re: Rembrandt info. and painting posted by Stump on 09/15/00 at 7:24 AM:

that was funny, you are right about Mayer, but i think he only was giving a medium for
those insistent on a maroger type medium. He was clear that the masters mastered
oil-pigment only as their tool, and experimenting sometimes but coming back to
the basic oil-pigment only. The problem is I could just type away and tell you everything
about the technique and then post the paintings when done, but i would end up seeing the info. sold on some website somewhere
like Bill Gates, taking others' work and selling it as his. I had to sift through years of crap
to learn how to paint. If not for all of the misleading info out there, I would have learned 10 times faster.
So i may as well wait and see if
my paintings and knowledge can help me out some day, before i give it all away. So just for grins, try this exercise. Please
try painting on a gessoed panel, with oil paint only for a while. Just when you get frustrated
and want to use mediums and additives for effect, do it with oil paint only. This will
teach you a lot. I'm not trying to act like a big shot. Just try it.

: EGG EMULSIONS INCREASE STABILITY!!!!??? you need to get Ralph Mayer's book BADLY!!!
: : my egg tempera friend.

:
: This is easy. Scientific evidence demonstrates tempera in Rembrandt and Caravaggio paintings; many authors discuss the benefits of a mixed oil/tempera technique; my own experience convinces me; Mayer disparages it. Gee, I’m Stumped :-)

: Mayer is a perfect example of why we need to take technique "experts" with a grain of salt. His basic approach is sound: Use common sense, there's no old master secrets, don't try to substitute some magic potion for basic drawing skills, etc. Yet he recommends the wretched damar/oil/turp medium, which, like maroger, trys to be all things to all people and is worthless.

: The old masters were great craftsmen. They pushed their *simple* materials to the edge, creating paintings of many layers, and with the widest breadth of treatment. Oil/tempera can do this. Damar medium is simple minded; a one-chord Johnny. Mayer is like the preacher preaching fire and brimstone then running to the whore house.

: So, what is common sense for technique? That which best achieves the ends of painting. Which is? That which enables the broadest range of expression.