More about Sir Stanley Spencer
An excellent story about this great English visionary painter in today’s Guardian, here.
Short break to move studio
I am painting this week with a much larger brush, relocating my studio to accommodate more students. I love to paint, no matter if it’s on a wall or a canvas. Back soon with another “how to paint” adventure!
Visiting Paradise with Susie and Marilyn
When my friend Susie arrived at the farm where weād agreed to meet, she raised her arms and said, āParadise!ā It was a lovely farm alright, but Paradise? We wandered. We looked at bales of hay in a pole barn and hiked to a rise where we could look down on the dairy barns. (Marilyn …
Field sketch to finished painting
Here are two paintings by Tom Thomson which demonstrate how he went from a field sketch to a finished painting. He changes the aspect ratio a bit but itās blown up roughly 3.5 times in the final work. āThe Opening of the Rivers: Sketch for āSpring Iceāā (1915) oil on wood-pulp board21.6 x 26.7 cm …
Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Ingres,_Napoleon_on_his_Imperial_throne.jpg My husband and I saw the show āCitizens and Kingsā at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Three months later, the painting which sticks in my memory is Ingresā Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne (1806). Most paintings are better seen in life, and this is no exception. The marble ball on the …