Lady in a Landscape: Day 1

I really really admire the high classical era, in which it seemed that the ideal of a painter was to make something look like life, but a little bit better. This year I am hoping to have a show with

A Look At: Romanticism

This is the Téméraire, in a famous picture by Turner that is a good view of the Romantic movement as a whole.

Cezanne’s Forest: Day 3

Today’s challenge was all about balance. The bright jumble of warm colours to the left of the tree needs something strong enough to set it off, on the right which is the sunward side. It required several warm greens, and

Girl With a Shiny Earring 2

Having been busily glazing the Girl with a Pearl Earring, I found myself with a real problem recently. One of the layers was not fully dried, and the addition of a new layer of oil pulled it up into clumps.

Girl with a Shiny Earring

For several months, I have been glazing a copy of a Vermeer painting, made famous by a film. I shall now expand that sentence. Glazing is putting on thin layers of paint, with a lot of carrier and comparatively little