The theory of linear perspective was developed by Florentine architect/engineers Filippo Bruelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti. The theory is to create an illusion of depth on a flat surface by increasingly reducing the size of objects to appear smaller as the near the vanishing point. The vanishing point is a point on the horizon line... Continue Reading →
Part 2: Research 4 – Dutch Genre Painting and Interiors
Once again I find this a very daunting subject with so little time available for in depth research. For this reason I have chosen five paintings that have caught my eye for various reasons and I will discuss them individually. Johannes Vermeer - Officer and Laughing Girl 1657 Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialised... Continue Reading →
Close to Home – Project 4: Drawing and Painting interiors
Exercise 1: Quick sketches around the house I have to be honest, I spent very little time on this exercise, particularly as I had already done this for Drawing Skills. I decided that I would use my study where I do most of my work as I wanted to be able to sit at my... Continue Reading →
Part 2: Research 3: Optical Effects
Maximilien Luce - Morning interior 1890 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436923 Luce was a neo impressionist painter, heavily influenced by the pointillist artists such as Georges Seurat. I particularly like ‘Morning Interior’ for its familiar, everyday subject matter and the artists handling of the paint. He has used red, orange, yellow and blue in stippled brushstrokes. Looking closely at... Continue Reading →
Part 2: Research 2 – Still Life
I have already looked at this subject during Drawing Skills 1 and my research can be found on the associated blog here:- https://jansoca.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/part-2-research-still-life-genre/ As a consequence I am going to ensure that I look a different artist for my research in this part. As I stated when I did my original research, this is such... Continue Reading →
Close to home – Project 3: Colour Relationships
Exercise 1: Colour relationships For this exercise I chose yellow and violet. I had already prepared a neutral grey ground although I have found that the darkness of the ground often shows through my acrylics which makes the colour comparison exercises a little difficult as it dulls the hues. I painted five squares of yellow... Continue Reading →
Close to Home – Project 2: Still Life
Exercise 1: Drawing in Paint In my sketchbook I made a couple of rough sketches of objects that were in my studio. Firstly my mug, glasses and an old perfume bottle that I use to spray water. I then looked at my two pots, one which holds a selection of palette knives and the other... Continue Reading →
Part 2: Research 1 – Michel-Eugene Chevreul, The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours
Chevreal (1786-1889) was a chemist who, in 1824 became Director of dyes at Gobelins, the Royal Tapestry Factory in Paris. It is here that he developed his colour theories showing how colours when next to each other can enhance or diminish the intensity of hue of each other. Effectively he established that contrasting colours, when... Continue Reading →
Close to Home – Project 1: Understanding Colour
Exercise 1: Mixing Greys - anachromatic scale For this exercise I am working with acrylics, titanium white and mars black. In my sketchbook I started by grey scale by adding tiny amounts of black to the white. In the first attempt, because I hadn’t mixed all the paint on my brush in thoroughly, the 6th... Continue Reading →
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