- He really likes lead paint because of the way it drags across the canvas, it avoids being chalky, and does not influence other colors as much as titanium white. It also allows better color saturation.
- Thomas avoids chalky looking painting by painting from dark to light.
- Avoid painting lights into darks and leave the darks transparent.
- Look for the biggest value contrasts and then the biggest hue contrasts.
- Work you painting from shape to contour to line and then dot.
- Working a shape from light to dark in opposition to dark to light creates an interesting contrast.
- When establishing masses build vertical masses early because it lends itself to planar development later in the painting.
- You want to suggest the time of day but don't lock yourself in and understand you must keep your initial impression of the time in your painting.
- When creating the composition through the choice of shapes and values resist suggesting shapes through the highlights until the end. Hold on to the notan till the end of the painting and then ice the cake. Keep the light and dark areas of the painting the same value to maintain the notan until the end.
- Establish distance in the painting by maintaining relationships between the foreground, middle ground, and background.
- Massing values, hues, and temperature and relating them to each other is key to a successful painting.
- If you can relate two of the three elements you will have a successful painting.
- There are no same colors in nature.
- Once you introduce white into the painting the whole game changes.
- Keeping the painting simple as long as you can by working at getting the big shapes correct in all of their relationships between values, colors, and temperature.
- Build the painting anyway you want but need to look at everything all the time to keep the relationships correct.
- You can only paint as well as you can draw.
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