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0071-How to Oil Paint Without Solvents with Kimberly Brooks - Part 2

Passionate Painter Podcast

English - April 22, 2022 19:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
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This is part 2 of my interview with Kimberly Brooks. Don't miss out on another jam-packed episode about just how you really can oil paint without relying on solvents to clean your brushes.

Kimberly Brooks is a contemporary American artist known for her portraits and landscapes in series addressing history, memory, and identity. Her work has been showcased in numerous juried exhibitions among museum curators including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Her recent solo show, “Painting Architecture”, at the Museum of Art and History Lancaster featured large interiors and landscapes collapsing in on one another.

Throughout her thirty-year career, Brooks has focused on the medium of oil with occasional integrations of gold and silver leaf.  in 2008, Brooks started to feel increasingly suspicious about the fumes she inhaled as a part of her practice.  Coinciding with modern science and historical manuscripts, Brooks created an ultimate guide for oil painters illuminating why solvents aren’t necessary when you oil paint. Learn more about Kimberly and how to contact her in the show notes for this episode at passionatepainterpodcast.com/episode71