In Olsztyn, I joined a private school that was founded in 1981 by Tadeusz Piotrowski (in the photo). Piotrowski himself graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. At his school – named after Cennino Cennini – we mainly studied the technologies of the Old Masters of painting.Tadeusz kept […]
Extraordinary oil
“Take your linseed oil and in summer pour it into a bronze or brass basin, or into a bowl, and when the sun is in the sign of Leo, expose it to the sun, and this oil, if you hold it so long, that it will be half gone, will be as perfect as possible for painting” (C. Cennini, “A Treatise on Painting”). Cennino Cennini, born in 1370 in Colle di Val d’Elsa, died […]