Studio practice
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 | Remembering and copying the Marina con Arco by Francesco Guardi
Today has been a teaching day. Spending time looking hard at the way Old masters still speak to us and through us. Most interesting is the... |
16-03-2012
Word count: 208
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 | Today I make a new batch of grounds for oils.
4mm ply on softwood supports with fine linen laid over with PVA and stapled at the back.
Tomorrow they will receive two coats of good Primer, then left to ... |
12-03-2012
Word count: 127
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New year decisions
Every few years I buy a roll of canvas, a roll of 50M is quite an investment! The first roll was cotton duck, bought a long time ago when I called into the old Russell and Chappel s... |
10-01-2012
Word count: 215
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 | Hearing a story for the first time is very different to hearing it a second time, and making a story up is different again to reading it. Knowing the end affects the experience in various ways depending ... |
16-11-2011
Word count: 205
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 | The sleeping artist
I am at present slumbering, having worked flat out for months now in order to meet my October deadline deadlines - the artistic zones are at present rather flat.
While idling I want... |
14-10-2011
Word count: 154
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 | A frame for 'Figures at Mamra'
Last weeks post 'The waiting game' showed a picture with three standing figures, this work needed a title and a frame. Figures at Mamra worked for me as a title and the fr... |
24-08-2011
Word count: 163
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The Arcadia series of eight paintings is at last complete. Now with their wings attached they were finished but rather vulnerable, so some storage and transport solution was called for.
I acqu... |
21-07-2011
Word count: 161
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 | The Arcadia series have stalled bit. At the last mention I planned some wings instead of frames, and these had been made in a flurry of workshop activity. Now the 16 wings for the 8 pictures need 32 copp... |
15-07-2011
Word count: 250
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 | This no. 3 in the 'Arcadia' set - there are eight in all and they can all be seen here
Painted in thin oil with a gloss finish they also have a rounded edge to the panel they have as a ground. This make... |
21-06-2011
Word count: 173
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Here is the HD player on test
04-03-2011
Word count: 7
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