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The Pace Race

Kim Carlton · Jul 13, 2015 ·

Like any vital, living thing, the art world is ever evolving. In the distant past, paintings were accomplished in the studio by painstaking application of layers of paint over a period of sometimes years. In the not-so-distant past, the trend toward alla prima painting increased the expectation of completing a piece in a much shorter...
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Kim Carlton
Kim Carlton is an American representational oil painter, writer, and teacher based in The Woodlands, Texas. Kim studies and paints the landscape, the figure and the still life with an eye toward understanding light. She is a member of Oil Painters of America, American Artists Professional League, American Impressionist Society, Artists’ Fellowship, Outdoor Painters Society, Portrait Society of America and the Salmagundi Club. She is represented exclusively by RS Hanna Gallery in Fredericksburg, TX. www.kimcarlton.com
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