We still associate brushmarks with sketchiness, speed of painting, spontaneity, bravura, and panache – and smooth paint surfaces, assembled from multiple layers and glazes, as being heartless mechanical essays in technique.
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It is easy to forget what mains power does to humans. Here are some reminders about how to stay alive despite electricity.
Unravelling References attributes, and making backlinks easily.
An innovator and major influence in the Impressionist movement, he seems to have been judged on his poorer works, not these, his best paintings.
Implementing notes and references using Storyspace 3, for authoring non-fiction hypertext.
She started with packs of fruit wrapped in clear plastic, and systematically investigated the complex balance between transmitted and reflected light.
Portraits by Reynolds, Gainsborough, Kauffmann, and others show extensive brushstrokes.
Some personal thoughts on different types of structure commonly seen in non-fiction.
Two justifiably popular Impressionist painters who are now largely forgotten, and a third who has simply vanished from the records.
The early wild enthusiasm for hypertext has now matured into a rich and stimulating literature. Here are suggestions.
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