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Month: February, 2006

The price of quality

22 February, 2006 (21:22) | Uncategorized | No comments

A customer reading the recent blog and commentary shared in a private email that she enjoys the Golden Acrylics but wonders why the paints are not less expensive. I was thankful for her sensitivity to the question not to pose it in the blog, but I thoug…

The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts

20 February, 2006 (17:42) | Uncategorized | No comments

We just finished a weekend of Board meetings for the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts. It is a currently a private, non-profit 501C-3 foundation, that began in 1997 as a tribute to my parents and a way to provide another resource to the commun…

What is quality in an acrylic paint

15 February, 2006 (09:24) | Uncategorized | No comments

What makes an artists paint high or low quality?

I used to have a very narrow view of this question. The answer was simply a matter of very few qualities with little room for nuance. It was basically how much pigment was in the system and is the…

Acrylic…. Oil…. Vote

14 February, 2006 (21:18) | Uncategorized | No comments

Their’s an interesting poll in painting.about.com
http://painting.about.com/b/a/243681.htm

Check it out…Marion Boddy-Evans is usually doing something interesting on the site

They are asking readers about their views on oils …

Finding Eden

5 February, 2006 (23:28) | Uncategorized | No comments

I’ve just spent two and a half grueling, exhilarating and emotional days at a board meeting for Eden Alternative, a world wide organization changing the face of elder care. Fighting “the three plagues of loneliness, helplessness and boredom…