Lessons from the Great Masters Day 14 – 20.7.15
Chapter title – Painting onto coloured paper: watercolour heightened with gouache.
Studio 365: Day 201
Art
Studio 365: Day 200
Lessons from the Great Masters Day 13 – 19.7.15
John Ruskin; on learning to see.
For Day 200 of Studio 365 here is a look back at some of the paintings from the last 100 days.
Studio 365: Day 199
Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half
Cypress Alleyway Half and Half
Half photograph, half painting of Cypress Alleyway, Castello di Reschia in Umbria, Italy.
The original photo and painting
You can see how the painting was developed from a charcoal sketch to the finished work here in a previous Weekly Photo Challenge:Layers, which I also titled Birth of a Painting, in November 2013.Studio 365: Day 198
Lessons from the Great Masters Day 11 – 17.7.15
Today’s chapter: John Constable: ‘natural’ sky paintings
How often have I marvelled at his great painting The Hay Wain on many trips to the National Gallery in London as a young boy. The scene was painted near Flatford Mill in Suffolk, which was owned by his father. I recently visited this hallowed spot which has changed little over the last two hundred years. All that were missing were the magnificent clouds of his painting.
Studio 365: Day 197
Lessons from the Great Masters Day 10, – 16.7.15
Today’s chapter is entitled, Thomas Girtin: the power of white.
Thomas Girtin was a contemporary of Turner who said of him, “If Tom Girtin had lived, I should have starved.”
Studio 365: Day 196
This painting of Venice from 2008 was inspired by Turner’s Venetian watercolours and seemed appropriate to post after my last three exercises from the chapter in Lesson’s from the Great Master’s entititled Joseph Mallord William Turner: colour harmony.
Studio 365: Day 195
Lessons from the Great Masters Day 9, part 3 – 14.7.15
The small double-sided white ceramic dishes I bought for $1.50 each last week from our local kitchen store are perfect for mixing and diluting the watercolour paints.
Studio 365: Day 194
Lessons from the Great Masters Day 9, part 2 – 13.7.15
Studio 365: Day 193
Lessons from the Great Masters Day 9, part 1 – 12.7.15
I have been looking forward to this chapter, entitled Joseph Mallord William Turner: colour harmony, ever since I received the book in the mail.
Turner is perhaps the greatest master of watercolour painting the world has known. His work has inspired me ever since I first saw his paintings in the Tate Gallery in London as a young boy. His mastery of light, colour, landscape, sky, mystery and atmosphere are second to none. He was a man ahead of his time; the first of the impressionists.
These exercises are a revelation and make this a wonderful journey to be on; more tomorrow.
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