Category Archives: Richard D. Burton

Tip: How to Give Your Painting a Feeling of Reality

Sometimes an artist will ignore the most important part of their painting, the part that gives the painting a feeling of “reality”.  I’m talking about negative spaces…the spaces that surround a solid. Assume that you see a table and are … Continue reading →

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Using a “Key” Color in Your Paintings

When I first began considering watercolor as a medium, I remember being attracted to the freshness and transparency in the many paintings that I saw. I also realized after attempting the medium there was so much to learn in not … Continue reading →

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Tip: Find Your Next Painting Within Your Last Painting

While I was painting the picture, Winter Farm, some years ago, I kept having a nagging feeling that there was a lot more than meets the eye to this old Ohio farmhouse. There was a certain rustic presence about the … Continue reading →

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Graphite Drawing – The Grinding Gears of Time

My brother, artist Lynn Burton, said “You never do anything simple. Do you?” Well, he’s right. I don’t. I don’t know why, but I just don’t. I understand how beautiful simplicity is…at least, in the art world. But somehow it … Continue reading →

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Artist, Richard D. Burton, Working on “Grinding Gears of Time”

Here is a partial drawing, Grinding Gears of Time, by artist, Richard D. Burton. The drawing is 18″X24″. The main figure (Father Time) is just a sketch taped onto the substrate which has many of the floating gears in the … Continue reading →

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