A lot of you kind folks out there that have been following my artistic progression have probably noticed how my technical execution of painting techniques has changed the way I'm expressing myself with paint. It's been a multi year study of the history of painting techniques that are allowing me to paint the way I currently am. I've got a long way to go but who knows, maybe a couple of hundred years from now one of my paintings will hang in a museum cracks and all. I personally like the cracks in the Mona Lisa. It's my understanding that the painting was done on a base of glue made from animal hides and through the years atmospheric expansion and contraction caused the cracks. The cracks weren't intended and in reality are a failure of the artists materials; some how it still works, don't you think?
Oh well, like the French say,"all the great paintings have cracks".
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