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Medium Well Done: 13 Paper and cardboard

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Good for watercolour and pastels alone? Paper and cardboard have also been used extensively for oil sketches, and more.

June 12, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The Balcony: Outside In

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David and Bathsheba, Romeo and Juliet – balconies are a useful device for painter, and not just to tell stories. Goya, Manet, and beyond.

May 25, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Landscape oil sketches from Valenciennes to Pissarro

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Examples of the work of Thomas Jones, Constable, Corot, Blechen, Boudin, Jongkind, Pissarro, Cézanne, Sargent, Monet, and more.

February 17, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Legends of England in Paint: Lady Godiva

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Why did the Countess of Mercia ride naked through the streets of an Anglo-Saxon town? And who was Peeping Tom?

September 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Huw Wystan Jones: the April Fool

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An explanation and apology for yesterday’s April foolery: and the paintings correctly attributed.

April 2, 2016 General, Language, Life, Painting

Huw Wystan Jones: the Welsh Impressionist

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Thanks to painstaking work in the Mouton-Rothschild Collection, a new artist is being added to the canon of Impressionists.

April 1, 2016 General, Language, Life, Painting

Painting outdoors in oils: a brief summary history

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It is hard to be sure when oil painting outdoors first started, but the oldest such paintings date from before 1700.

January 3, 2016 General, Painting, Technology
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