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Category Archive: General

Alchemy: 12 – novel resins, water, and the uncertain future

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Finally, we start to understand how oil paint works – just as Modernist painters seem determined to stop it from working at all.

September 16, 2016 General, Painting, Technology

Porting from WordPress to Storyspace, 2: links and stretchtext

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Incorporating the captioned images into milestone writing spaces, which form the spine of the hypertext. And a quick preview of the developing timeline.

September 16, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

James Ward: between Constable and Turner, 3

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His second vast canvas almost brings him to financial and artistic failure, but he recovers.

September 15, 2016 General, Painting

Porting from WordPress to Storyspace, 1: imports and prototypes

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Converting from fairly linear HTML to interconnected hypertext – aiming to tell the several stories of the history of oil painting.

September 15, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

James Ward: between Constable and Turner, 2

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Full membership of the Royal Academy, a gigantic landscape of the sublime, and several important commissions: the peak of his career.

September 14, 2016 General, Painting

James Ward: between Constable and Turner, 1

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One of the major figures in British painting in the first half of the 1800s, but usually ignored today. His oil sketches are exceptional.

September 13, 2016 General, Painting

RIP Demon: the Tenner a Month is finally spent

Nearly 25 years ago, Demon Internet started to provide dial-up services to anyone prepared to pay £10 per month. In 30 days, it will finally be gone.

September 13, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Alchemy: 11 – intent overrides craft

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In America, geographic isolation and growing freedom led to the craft of oil painting being smothered by artistic intent. Here are some results.

September 12, 2016 General, Painting, Technology

Should you drop Dropbox?

What do you make of an app which “takes control of your Mac” without asking you, and then refuses to let you disable that?

September 12, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

In William Merritt Chase’s Studio: insights and informal portraits

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His studio was a recurrent motif which tells us much about his promotional activity, and his extended persona.

September 11, 2016 General, Painting

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