Stanley Rea Sanders

Stan’s art is driven by his vision, perception and personal inspiration. Growing up with the encouragement of a professional painter, his inheritance of an eye for detail and a mind with a different prospective; and bringing a determination to use put his vision onto canvas, his paintings  express feeling, industry, humor, and passion.

Current painting technique

Over years of painting experience, I have used a variety of techniques. I currently use contemporary materials for the most part, commercially prepared canvases, oil-paint pigments in tubes, and manufactured brushes, but in almost every painting I layer paint in the fashion of 16th and 17th Century painters using glazes and pigmented varnishes allowing each layer to dry.  Occasionally I stretch my own canvasses in preparation for a painting, particularly larger formats, cutting and building my own stretcher bars.  And I have in years past experimented with old-world techniques of sizing canvas surfaces with century-old processes of applying rabbit-skin glue, tree-resin gums, and encaustic-ground under painting.