The Secrets of Painting

$50.00 at de Young Museum.

An engaging history of painting as told through the eyes and hands-on insights of a practicing artist. When looking at a work of art, the first question that painter Lachlan Goudie considers is not why but how was it created? Goudie knows from experience that masterpieces don’t simply emerge from an artist's studio. They are the result of a long tussle between dirty hands and crushed pigment, hog's-hair brushes and linseed oil, rabbit-­skin glue and pulverized chalk. Great paintings are the product of a…