August 22, 2010

Paint Stick? Painting Crop?

Dear painting experts,

Please tell me that the brush-steadying stick with the sock on the end which is so vital to the painting process that it must be included in Serious & Important Photographic Portraits of such artists as Arnold Friberg and Winston Churchill has a venerable and esoteric name. And then please tell me what that name is. Thank you.

friberg_paintstick.jpg

church_paintstick_life.jpg

And awesome. Mahl stick. Here's a lyrical history. Thanks, Jason!

images: Deseret News via NYT; life mag via acontinuouslean]
Related: Norman Rockwell, Triple Self-Portrait

art | posted by greg at August 22, 2010 1:06 PM