Tony Teal
Painting: Untitled Bridge (05/06/2020)
Tonight, I am adding in more of the forest in the lower section of the canvas. This is a mixture of French Ultramarine Blue and Yellow...
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May 6, 20202 min read
Painting: Untitled Bridge (04/26/2020)
Today, I am painting the landscape in the lower section of the painting, which is a mixture of Yellow Ochre and French Ultramarine Blue....
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Tony Teal
Apr 20, 20201 min read
Painting: Untitled (04/18/2020)
Lapis lazuli is the root word used in Spanish and Portuguese for blue stone. In Spanish the word azul is blue. Centuries ago, French...
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Tony Teal
Apr 11, 20201 min read
Painting: Untitled (04/11/2020)
Today, I am painting in the remaing section of the sky. I am using a mixture of french ultra-marine blue, permanent alizarin crimson and...
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Tony Teal
Apr 5, 20201 min read
Painting Untitled (04/05/2020)
After painting the outline of the bridge and trees, I am ready to paint the evening sky. I start with the sky because it the farthest...
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Tony Teal
Apr 1, 20201 min read
Painting Untitled (04/01/2020)
After painting successive layers of white gesso, I added two coats of grey gesso to the yet to be titled 30" X 40" canvas. The darker...
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Tony Teal
Mar 22, 20201 min read
Painting: Untitled (03/22/2020)
While finishing up the "Inglorious Chorus" painting, this is a good time for me to prepare another canvas for a new painting. This will...
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Tony Teal
Mar 15, 20201 min read
Inglorious Chorus 03/15/2020
It has been a difficult past few weeks. There was the loss of some dear people, the tornado that came through middle Tennessee, and...
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Tony Teal
Feb 23, 20201 min read
Inglorious Chorus (02/23/2020)
Today, I am focusing on the upper part of the canvas. My intent is fill in more layers of the hazy rain and fog covering the the...
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Tony Teal
Feb 15, 20201 min read
Inglorious Chorus (02/15/2020)
It's been about a week since my last painting session. Over this time, simply viewing the painting has been my intent. This has given me...
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Tony Teal
Feb 8, 20201 min read
Inglorious Chorus (02/08/2020)
I'm at a precarious stage at this part of the painting process. Painting too much can overwork the composition. There needs to be just...
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Tony Teal
Feb 2, 20201 min read
Inglorious Chorus (02/01/2020)
Inspiration can come from different places. This painting is inspired by a picture my partner took with his phone several months ago. It...
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Tony Teal
Jan 24, 20201 min read
Inglorious Chorus (01/24/2020)
Sometimes painting is just about the process. Tonight, I am focusing on the process of adding more color and layers of paint, giving ...
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Tony Teal
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Inglorious Chorus (01/18/2020)
Painting is stupid. And this is the reason I like the simple, even instinctual; act of smearing paint on the surface of a canvas. When I...
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Tony Teal
Jan 10, 20201 min read
Inglorious Chorus (01/10/2020)
This oil painting is about the effects of the environment on an urban street scene, but it is also about the effects of urban life on the...
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Tony Teal
Jan 5, 20201 min read
Inglorious Chorus (01/05/2020)
After being on vacation for two weeks, I am returning to work on the oil painting of "Inglorious Chorus." My intent is to continue to...
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Tony Teal
Dec 15, 20191 min read
Inglorious Chorus (12/15/2019)
Today, I am continuing to layer the the oil painting, "Inglorious Chorus." Starting near the edges of the canvas and working toward the...
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Tony Teal
Dec 8, 20191 min read
Inglorious Chorus (12/08/2019)
After applying the seventh coat of gesso and sanding between layers, the canvas is primed for painting. Today, I am painting in a basic...
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Tony Teal
Dec 1, 20191 min read
Inglorious Chorus (11/30/2019)
In this video, I begin the preparation of applying gesso to a blank 30" X 48" canvas. This process will create a smooth flat surface to...
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Tony Teal
Nov 24, 20191 min read
Night Walk (11/24/2019)
It's later than you think. Do what you enjoy. Those words have been rolling over in my mind over the last few weeks. After a full day of...
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