Consideration of landscapes as decorative backdrops, altered visions leading to fantasy, and a summary of the series.
Category Archive: Painting
Seurat painted five series of paintings carefully constructed to help form 3D space.
Why Apple should be giving more to charity, and how that should include the arts.
Study 25 landscapes by 19 artists over 400 years, to examine how they represent the landscape.
The earliest landscape paintings – and very many since – have fundamentally been visual records of the world.
Some paintings have figures and action which goes beyond staffage, and provides narrative, meaning, or puzzles.
Two painters whose visions were particularly clearly articulated, and contrasting: Caspar David Friedrich and Samuel Palmer.
Two current cases show how messy copyright can become: it is not a Happy Birthday for Harry Potter.
Eleven round size 12 watercolour brushes under test, ranging in cost from less than £5 to over £150. Which is best value?
Not all sable brushes are created equal, how some are slow starters, and new results for flat or ‘One Stroke’ brushes.
