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Landscape Composition: 17 A short history

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From Giorgione, Dürer and Altdorfer to Turner, Pissarro, Monet and Renoir: landmarks in the composition of landscape paintings.

December 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 10 Through a lens

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From panoramas to wide-angle views, the optical effects of Naturalist paintings, depth-of-field effects, and loss of depth through a telescope.

November 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 1 Introduction to a new series

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Horizon, planes of foreground, middle distance and background, repoussoir and framing, rhythm, reflections and panoramas – examples of compositional techniques.

September 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

From world view to panorama: 1 World views

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From an elevated viewpoint, finely detailed, great depth, figures and buildings tiny in the immensity of the view, far distant horizon – it’s a World View.

February 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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

Medium Well Done: 5 Watercolour and gouache

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With a binder of gum arabic, watercolours came into use in the Renaissance, and have steadily increased in popularity.

April 16, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Seeing History: Static views

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The mental images which we perceive are created in the brain, which has some fixed ideas about how to do that. They’re not the same as optical laws used in cameras and related devices.

December 6, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Coast: The spectacle of Vesuvius, 1

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Land, sea, air, and the spectacular sight of a volcano erupting. With paintings by Marlow, Joseph Wright of Derby, and Lusieri.

November 15, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Wet in wet: a brief history of watercolour – 1, origins to 1800

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The first in a series of 4, starts with Dürer’s brilliant paintings, looks at Raphael, Hans Bol, and the beginnings of the ‘English School’.

September 2, 2017 General, Painting

Landscape Visions: 4 Breath-taking panoramas

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No matter how old and jaded you get, you can always appreciate the breath-taking view from the top of a hill, as the earth sweeps out in myriad details, as far as the distant horizon.

July 26, 2015 Painting

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