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Landscape Composition: 14 Nocturnes

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Technically very challenging, most are painted in the studio, but some are quite unreal, and others suffer from the moon illusion.

November 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 12 Directing light

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With its central role in visual art, light and its source plays a critical role in composition. It’s also one of the challenges to those painting in the studio or in front of the motif.

November 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Winter is Coming: Paintings of Fog

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Who’d want to paint much of their canvas dull, pale grey? If these paintings are anything to go by, many of the Impressionists

November 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 4 The Quest

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How paintings of the Aeneid, Jason and the Golden Fleece, and Homer’s Odyssey match up with the basic plot of The Quest.

November 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Homer’s Odyssey in paintings: 1 Polyphemus and Circe

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How Odysseus and his crew escaped the one-eyed giant Polyphemus, then became turned into pigs by the sorceress Circe.

November 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Jason and the Golden Fleece 2

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Once he has the Golden Fleece, Jason is pursued by Medea’s father. They make away in his ship the Argo, but he later abandons Medea, and everything goes wrong for them both.

October 31, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Painted Story of the Aeneid: 2 From Carthage to Apotheosis

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After Dido’s suicide, Aeneas takes a trip to the underworld, guided by the Cumaean Sibyl. He goes on to found the city of Lavinium, a precursor to Rome.

October 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 7 Turner’s revolution

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His early landscapes followed van Mander. He also expressed his love of Claude’s work, before composition dissolved into light and colour.

October 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Channel Coasts: 2 France

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A journey along the coast of northern France, starting with Turner at Calais Pier, and ending in vivid colour on Ushant/Ouessant – in wonderful paintings.

August 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Channel Coasts: 1 England

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A journey in paintings from Newlyn Harbour in Cornwall, past the Isle of Wight, to end at Dover – the English Channel coast.

August 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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