The following paintings were painted using Old Master’s techniques and painting mediums and 18th century English methods of transparent watercolor based on the Norwich School in England.   In the oil paintings, I followed Jacques Maroger’s approach, which is based on his lifetime of research into the lost techniques of the Dutch, Flemish and Venetian Schools. Jacques Maroger, as director of the Louvre Laboratories, of the Louvre Museum in Paris France, spent years experimenting, researching and chemically analyzing the paintings of Rubens, Vermeer, Titian, Velasquez, and other artists of the Golden Age of painting. He tested the results of his research in his own paintings and published his findings in his book, " The Secret Formulas Of The Old Masters", 2nd printing by Hacker Art Books. Having taken part in a number of shows of Maroger’s work here in Albuquerque, and the Southwest, I saw firsthand how deftly he achieved the quality of paint of the various Old Masters he studied. His research culminated in the rediscovery of the lost gel mediums used by these masters, and once again painters were able to obtain the translucent effects characteristic of their paintings. Consequently, his influence has been monumental. In the United States and abroad there has been a movement to bring back the high quality of realistic painting of the !6th century using the Maroger mediums. Along with a number of painters in Albuquerque, New Mexico I have been part of this movement towards classical drawing and painting. Through the Siegfried Hahn- Howard Wexler School, I learned to combine sound drawing methods and tonality in watercolor and with  the Maroger medium. For more detailed information on drawing and painting methods see the American Artist article on this school.