Camille Pissarro was slightly older than most of the Impressionist artists in France and he was a bit of a father figure to them. Like the other Impressionists he was frustrated with conventional academic art so he worked outside “en plein air”, painting what was in front of him and finishing his paintings in oneContinue reading “The Vulgar Painter?”
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Claude And Gwendoline
This is my painted copy of an original painting that’s here in Wales. It’s French Impressionist Claude Monet’s “San Giorgio Maggiore At Dusk“. He painted it in the first few years of the 20th Century, when he was quite elderly. He loved the sunsets in Venice and started his paintings there, but took them backContinue reading “Claude And Gwendoline”
Vincent Goes To The Seaside
These dynamic brushstrokes are from a “fake” I did of a painting by Vincent van Gogh, “Fishing Boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer“, which was painted when Vincent was living in Arles in the south of France and had a trip to the seaside for a week in 1888 to help with his health.Continue reading “Vincent Goes To The Seaside”
Sketching On A Train
Husb and I went away for a few days, to the Lake District and Glasgow. Hectic but great to get away after all these many months of lockdown. I love sketching on trains and did this one into my A6 leatherbound sketchbook with a ballpoint pen. I’ve been keeping sketchbooks for many years – itContinue reading “Sketching On A Train”
A Head Start And Recycling Waste
I was never much of a fan of the 18th / 19th century British landscape painter John Constable. I grew up in a time when his work was popular on biscuit tins and chocolate boxes and I guess that familiarity breeds contempt. So copying this cloud study with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting ClubContinue reading “A Head Start And Recycling Waste”
The Other Wild Beast
This painting is a copy of “Charing Cross Bridge” by the French artist Andre Derain, who was most famous for being one of Les Fauves – Wild Beasts – a group of painters who developed this style in the first decade of the 20th century. As well as Derain, the group included most famously HenriContinue reading “The Other Wild Beast”
The Brothers In Montmartre
This is a painting copy I have done of one of van Gogh’s scenes of Montmartre. Vincent was living with his brother Theo in 1886 when he painted this, when the area was still very rural. It’s not like that anymore, although there’s a windmill, the Moulin Rouge, and a few vineyards. But back whenContinue reading “The Brothers In Montmartre”
The Green Lady And The King Of Kitsch
This is my painting copy of the famous work “Green Lady (Chinese Girl)” by the 20th century Russian-born painter Vladimir Tretchikoff. It’s an image I grew up with as so many people had a print of this on their living room walls during the 1960s and 1970s – it was one of the best sellingContinue reading “The Green Lady And The King Of Kitsch”
Turner Was A Cheapskate (And He Loved Cats)
The artist JMW Turner was a cheapskate. It’s true. He often used cheap paints and sometimes they were so cheap that buyers returned the work months later because they had faded so much! He loved the juicy red called cochineal, made from South American beetles. But despite knowing that the colour just wouldn’t last, heContinue reading “Turner Was A Cheapskate (And He Loved Cats)”
Sinuous Not Clunky
Back to faking with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook and this week it’s an early painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, “Evening; Red Tree”. I’d only known Mondrian’s later works before, which are very controlled and geometric so it was a surprise to see this one from around 1908Continue reading “Sinuous Not Clunky”
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