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When in Rome: 1 Paul Bril and Agostino Tassi

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How northern landscape painting was taken to Italy, and started its long journey to acceptance, and eventually Impressionism.

August 5, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Consolation 3.0b6 (fc1): building an infinitely customizable log browser

Adds the ability to export and import libraries of custom predicates, styles, and filters to property list files, independently of preferences – a leap forward.

August 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Alexander Cozens: experimental painter – his tercentenary

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Although few of his finished paintings survive, he was a major influence on John Constable and others, and some of his techniques were not exploited until the 20th century.

August 4, 2017 General, Painting

More Fun Scripting with Swift in Xcode: String search

Which String.contains() variant should you use, and how can you give access to regex searching? More answers coded in Swift 3.1.

August 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Regex: searching with regular expressions

Stop wasting time wading through hundreds of hits: refine your text searches using regex, as supported by many Mac apps.

August 4, 2017 Language, Macs, Technology

Figures in a Landscape: 13 Conclusions and contents

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Are they part of a narrative, or staffage? Do they provide scale, or enhance the effect? Are the figures part of the landscape, or even the landscape itself?

August 3, 2017 General, Painting

Looking in the log: predicates, filters, regex, and find

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Different search and filter tools have different purposes – as demonstrated by exploring the log using Consolation 3. Regex at work!

August 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Coast: Introduction to a new series on landscape painting

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Where land, sea, and sky meet. Sought-after and hugely popular in fine weather, the forces of nature are most obvious in storms. The cradle of Impressionism and more modern painting.

August 2, 2017 General, Painting

How the new tools in Consolation 3 help to explore Sierra’s startup

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How to breeze through the startup process log using new tools in Consolation 3.

August 2, 2017 Macs, Technology

Richard Dadd: 7 An appreciation

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In memory of Richard Dadd: ten of his best, and thoughts about his life and work. Would we have been any better towards him even now?

August 1, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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