Keep some of your own art

After some years of painting, I realized there were pieces I had done that I should keep.

So do the same yourself.

Build a collection of pieces that you keep for yourself.

The basis for your decision will be your own personal 'take' on it.

That is as it should be.

Some of your children should live at home.......

And then you can let the majority of them go out into the world!

Organizing your paint colors

As time passes, you will most likely have more and more paint

colors. This is how I easily find them. I have taken various

containers and labeled them with their basic color names.

(These are all oil paints.)

You will also see that I have a small set of colors which I have

left in the box below these containers. In a few cases, I

decided to keep the same brand of paint together.

These are suggestions that might make it easier for you to

find your colors more quickly, if you have quite a lot of it.

But the other thing it does is that you can easily see when

you are low on colors and can restock before you run out!

Prevent Liquin from drying up

I went through a lot of bottles of Liquin

before I figured this out. They would dry

out and I would have to throw them away

without getting my money's worth.

So now I turn the larger bottle upside

down and then there is no air there

to dry out this very useful medium! The

smaller jar that you see is where I put a

small amount to work from. If you look

carefully, you will see that the glass part of

that little jar is lighter in color than the big

bottle. That is stuff that is all dried up

on the sides of the jar. I just pour about

a half inch of Liquin in that jar and with

all these clever tricks, I now get my money's

worth!

I hope you find this helpful.