Can great techniques of oil painting be revived?
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Uncorrected 1996 draft memorandum (12 pages) resuming my own experience reworking the old master techniques. Special thanks goes to my friend, the Belgian master of watercolor and schoolmate Leopold Geysen with whom I had the luck to discuss these issues in depth while working both of us in our own directions.