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Here you will find discussion posts on philosophy and practice of art.
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo, after an introduction and an exploration of natural inorganic pigments, we now turn our attention to natural organic pigments. Here, of course things could become more complex as we noted previously. The natural inclination and one I have seen in some of the extant …
Reading Time: 9 minutesPreviously, we discussed some basic ways of categorising pigments, looking at the organic/inorganic and natural/synthetic definitions and then progressing a little into qualities in use. I am going to continue this, in a series of four further posts, diving a little deeper in the categorisations …
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor a Northern industrial town with a history of grime and depravation, Newcastle does have rather a fair share of art galleries. After the slight dissapointment of much of the town centre we ended up in the Laing Gallery which was rather an unexpectedly good …
Reading Time: 6 minutesLeeds Art Gallery has been hosting an exhibition – ‘Don’t Let’s Ask for the Moon…’: Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw which I have been meaning to get to for some time, and finally managed this Easter Thursday gone, a rare day off work with nothing else …
Reading Time: 12 minutesGetting to the bottom of how pigments (and indeed different preparations thereof) behave ultimately can become a bit of a rabbit hole. I will aim in this post to wander, perhaps circuitously, through some of my thoughts and considerations when exploring and using different pigments …
Reading Time: 4 minutesLondon, day 2. The general itinery seemed to split itself into West End, East End, and today we head off towards Covent Garden and the west end shops. I have enduring memories of visiting Covent Garden Market as a child, though my last quick visit …
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s probably impossible to have escaped knowledge of Temu over the last couple of years. The site that (apparently) lets you “Shop Like a Billionaire” became the darling of the younger Gen Z and the oldest Gen Alpha, amid concerns abouy Viruses, data protection, poor …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWeek Three of my One Colour a Day. Including “Back to Work Day”, Minecraft, eating more crap (and some healthy smoothies), and characterised overal by a run of producing my own watercolours…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere is my second week of One Colour a Day. As before I will not explain much, other than it has been the “Twixtmas Week” when you don’t know what day it is, new year hits, and then (though I was blessed to have a …
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have to be honest and say that in the run up to Christmas, as is often the case, I was not feeling particularly festive, and in my suggestions or interests for the work secret santa this year I think I put some thing like …
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is a fact which cannot be denied that sometimes things don’t go 100% to plan. I was feeling a little despondent with the feel of “Boulder Gate” as it was not the loose style I was seeking, certainly on the rocks. I decided to …
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter coming back from Scotland I have had a play with some painting based on the scenery there, working from the photos I took. This is the view of the sunset from Rockcliffe over Urr Water. In retrospect I think this was always going to …