Chasing the Desert Sky

Birds in Art by Sarah Siltala

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Birds, Butterflies, Still Life and Landscape in Oil

”Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
—-that is all Ye know on earth,
and all ye need to know. ~John Keats

This past weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to study the portrait in charcoal with Teresa Oaxaca. I have been spending a l...

Fumed Silica in Linseed Oil Painting Medium

Still Life with Red Faced Warbler 9"x12" oil/panel It's been a very interesting start to 2016, and I find m...
Hand Refined Linseed Oil from Flax oil

American Goldfinch 11"x14" I just completed my first successful batch of hand refined linseed oil out of orga...
Demo in Indirect Painting

Welcome! I am an oil painter residing in New Mexico. I use an indirect style of painting based on Flemish and Venetian methods; I paint i...
Titanium vs Lead White

I spent some time recently experimenting with handmade white oil paint. I thought I'd share a little comparison I made after mixin...
Making Salt Refined Organic Linseed Oil

A fresh batch of raw linseed oil made from organic flax seed oil, resting in the light I recently completed another batch ...
Painting alla prima

I'm beginning to experiment with painting alla prima, which is when paint is mixed directly from the tube and a painting is comp...
A Poem

The Swan by Mary Oliver Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? Did you see it in the morning, rising into ...