Been done to death folks..study your history..no new ground being plowed.

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@@DavidWilson-yj3si You could say what you said about anything. Why teach people math? 99.9999% of the students won't be able to make "new ground" anyways. Hell, why do we even teach people anything, the vast majority of folks won't be able to make new ground in any field whatsoever.

+fussrodah Thank you so much!!!! :)

It might be gum turpentine.....it evaporates quite quickly but supports a sticky texture to the paint and canvas for next layer.....he paints wet on wet.....knowing the paint as he goes.

1.30 it's not fully dried, still wet. But the layer is so thin that he can easily go over it with a thicker layer without it being mudded.

Use a bit more paint and it will add more form to wet paint.

do you realize the cameraman and the artist cannot be the same person, right? RIGHT?

he's using oil (likely rembrandt) with solvent (gamsol)

it's linseed oil.

Gamsol, I think

+TodayFreedom I took your advice and looked up the site, 'Art Renewal Center'. I liked what I saw there. I enjoyed looking at some of the works that artists have done and who have been named to be among the finalists. Among the finalists, there were artists there whose works I truly admired but there were equally other artists who were what I considered to be "okay. Not great, but okay. I will see a painting I truly liked, and then I look up the artist on his own site, and some of his other paintings are not that great. In my opinion Casey Baugh is "premier league". Many of Casey Baugh's paintings are of great quality and even better than some I have seen at 'Art Renewal Center'. So I really don't know why you are shooting him down like that. Casey Baugh definitely knows how to paint and draw without the aid of measuring tools that some artists have to use if they are doing a portrait to give to the person. If you look at some of his paintings you will see they definitely qualify to be in 'Art Renewal Center'. Here are some of his works: www.artsy.net/artist/casey-baugh, roncandoenelnostromo.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/casey-baugh/. Some of his works are better than some of the ones who appear as finalists in 'Art Renewal Center'. Look at the quality of his work here - great work! maherartgallery.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/casey-baugh-1984-georgia.html Casey Baugh is a great artist and he is already in 'premier league'

No, I'd prefer the late Titian, Velasquez or Manet, Sorolla, Sargent, Repin influenced painters such as Casey. They have more vigour and life and abstraction in their brushwork. It's not about "being premier league"(makes me want to puke you elitist wanker!) It's a matter of an artists choice to avoid classical realism because it bores them and never has the sense of life that this sort of painting does. A great painting is not to be viewed on the internet or in a book it is to be viewed from a distance. It's about the excitement that the brain receives from completing the image that stimulates the senses. But there's a few who don't get it.

TodayFreedom I don't understand why people still like to gauge and name Artist like it's a contest of skill , art is not a competition what resonates with you won't do the same with others , so many different styles of painting and there's something for everyone , art is subjective just like music and trying to put a score card on artist is ridiculous in my opinion .

People too busy judging others probably forgot where they themselves are on the path