“Tube painting?” some guy yelled at me from about 30 feet away at my first exhibition in a large indoor art show in downtown Toronto back in about 2002. I was puzzled by what he was asking. I am an oil painter and I don’t make my own paint. I buy it in tubes….in the largest tubes I can get. But I think most oil painters buy their paint in tubes… after all it changed an artist’s ablilty to easily…
Welcome! Today is about texture… the rough surface of my paint on my canvas. The “why” I do it. I didn’t start out painting texture but came to it naturally as a way of applying paint when I was taught by Greg Damery at OCAD to paint without using thinners, additives and chemicals to clean brushes. I took his healthy advice to heart and found that I could either rub the oil paint into the canvas for thin layers, or…