Michael Kantor

Yes, cave paintings have lasted more than 40,000 years! Earth pigments (iron oxides) are super-permanent, as are cave walls.
And yes, they have found stone carvings that have lasted even longer than cave paintings.

Not that I think that anything I've painted is worthy of lasting thousands of years.
In fact, the biggest impediment to art lasting for a really long time is that people don't especially value it and it gets thrown out. Probably, 99% of all art falls into that category.

When people talk about making art that's archival, they are generally talking about art that will look relatively unchanged after a hundred years.
But what if you want to make art that lasts THOUSANDS of years? There's not much good advice on how to do that.

Hi come hardly anybody uses Grumbacher these days?

Cool 🎨

I don’t know those colors 🤔

Thanks! Yeah, there's a very slight hint of purple in the sky.

Oil painting, on canvas. Landscape with tall trees.

6x8" oil #painting, on Fredrix canvas.
I tried to use the limited palette from the previous painting plus ultramarine blue, but wound up adding phthalo green and purple.
Switched to mars black, which was a mistake; lamp black mixes better greens.
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Looks like Manhattan.

Than you!

Vermillion is a bright orangeish opaque red like what is called "cadmium red light."
I think that any red you want to use is in the spirit of the Zorn palette, as long as you use only one. But you have to use yellow ochre to be True Zorn. I cheated a little with the chrome antimony titanium yellow.

Because it emphasizes value rather than bright colors. Which is what you have to do when you can't mix any blue or green.

I'm experimenting with the Gamblin 1980 Titanium White because it's pretty inexpensive and doesn't contain any zinc oxide which is considered to be an evil pigment.
But without zinc, titanium white yellows pretty noticeably, so I'll see if the sky looks yellow in a few weeks.

Zorn-type palette:

Gamblin 1980 Titanium White (omg! student grade!)
Winsor & Newton Naples Yellow Deep (aka Chrome Antimony Titanium Buff, PBr 24)
W&N Venetian Red
W&N Lamp Black

Funny how the sky looks blue and the trees look green, even though they are just gray and yellow.

6x8" oil painting, on Fredrix canvas. Florida wetlands landscape. Zorn palette.

6x8" oil painting, on Fredrix canvas.
I took way too long with the last painting, so I forced my self to start and finish this the same day. I used a limited Zorn-type palette to simplify the color mixing.
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Thank you, Silvie!

Thanks you, Mr. Owl.

9x12" oil painting, on canvas paper. Florida landscape.

9x12" oil painting, on canvas paper. Another Florida landscape.

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9x12" oil painting, on canvas paper, of a Florida landscape, with palm trees.

9x12" oil painting, on canvas paper, of a Florida landscape, with palm trees. Can't believe it has been almost four years since I moved to Florida.

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9x12" oil painting on canvas, landscape, wetlands in Florida.

Hi Bluesky! Here's another 9x12" oil painting on canvas that I just finished.
This time, going for a Florida vibe.

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Nicer than my garden 🌷

That’s a nice view 🌊

Thank you 😊

Thanks 😀

9x12" oil painting on canvas, a landscape (in vertical format) with mountains and clouds.

Hi Bluesky! Here's a 9x12" oil painting on canvas that I just finished.
A while ago I decided I should try painting Florida scenes, but I backslid because I really like mountains.

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Awesome! Welcome back to painting.

Thanks, Jenni!

That's because I'm not good at painting strip malls. 😀

Yeah, Florida has become a pretty crowded state, for sure. 😀

Thanks for your comment!

It's really nice! I love that ominous grey sky.