Stag-head oaks that have lost their crown, fallen branches, a small flourish of leaves, a massive trunk that has lost its roots, remains left after felling, the destruction of wildfires and warfare.
Thomson
Overview and links to each of the articles in this series looking at shade and shadow in figurative and landscape paintings.
How oil paint can be used to create crisp and blurred edges, and sfumato. Implications of paint drying in some of Monet’s paintings, including his Grainstack series.
Summer storms from Constant Troyon, Albert Bierstadt, Volodymyr Orlovsky, Winslow Homer, Gustav Klimt, Pierre Bonnard and others.
Paintings by Frits Thaulow, Emile Claus, Lesser Ury, Hans Andersen Brendekilde, Lovis Corinth, Tom Thomson and others. Brrrr!
Painted either from a kayak or canoe, or dependent on gaining access using one. Biard, Frances Anne Hopkins, and the great Tom Thomson.
Contents with links for each article in the series, with lists of mountains and locations covered.
Paintings of mountains in Australia and New Zealand, by Eugene von Guérard, Nicholas Chevalier, John Turnbull Thomson, Marianne North and Charles Blomfield.
Goya, Thomas Girtin, Tom Thomson, John Singer Sargent, Renoir, Eva Gonzalès and others painting anglers and those in pursuit of shellfish.
The changing colours of trees and their leaves in the autumn/fall, celebrated in paintings from John Ferguson Weir in 1901 to Paul Nash in 1944.
