spence munsinger
artist & painter
This stuff is so cool. Knuckles are the rounded distal (distant from the center of body) end of the metacarpals number 2 through 5… The phalanges (bones of the finger) are boxes at the base, articulating on a spool-shaped surface – thus they hinge rather than allow a broad range of motion. The length of [...]
I’ve been going through Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form by Eliot Goldfinger. Truly an amazing book. A very tough slog through. I have to take each sentence, piece it apart. For example: Understandable, one word and one piece at a time, then one sentence. Eventually you arrive at a conceptual understanding of [...]
I have/had a firm and fast rule not to go back to a painting after I sign it. Once it is signed that’s it, it isn’t to be changed. In acrylic work, once it is signed I usually put the isolation layer (2 coats of matte acrylic medium mixed with water) and then two coats [...]
I do it because I am driven to do that which I find I am good at. I started thinking about this because of one question and a statement: “How do you get your ideas?” And the variant, “Where do you get these ideas?” (The Idea Store…) And “I can’t imagine how you think of [...]
I paint the edges of canvases. I buy only gallery-wrapped 1-1/2″ depth canvases, and if I stretch a canvas, it is with the same stretchers and wrap style. I don’t like a frame on most paintings. Painting the edges persuades an owner to place the canvas in a museum-style frame with the edges of the [...]
I’ve been working on portraits and nude figures. Re-learning anatomy, and discovering where to break the accuracy. Most recent work has been without brushes, using painting knives. NOT palette knives, not the springy sharp-edged knives readily available. Rather knives intended to paint with – they are harder, have more unusual shapes and smoother edges. The [...]
