At the same time, the use of the reflective qualities of enamel on textured coloured surfaces allows forms to appear and disappear, their visual reality in time shifting and impermanent. The inorganic materiality of the enamel and its translucence allows it to be part of the whole, but with a...
The main constraint is that it's got to be at least dark-ish to enable you to take a long/slow-enough photo that you can draw something before the scene becomes over exposed. It doesn't have to be pitch black - in fact, having some ambient light to allow the background scene to ...
I love to paint and draw the people I see around me here in south-west France as well as trying to capture my sunshine filled lifestyle. I work in acrylics, coloured pencil, charcoal and pen 116 works | member for 13 Years View Artist ...
Is it possible to regard the “Last Judgment” as anything else but a coloured bas-relief, more complete and less perfect than the Greeks? Michael Angelo’s artistic outlook was the same as Phidias’. One chose the “Last Judgment” and the other “Olympus”, but both subjects were looked...
(iii). Many of his creations have now turned into objects of worship; and adorn the walls of the temples and puja-rooms. That might be because, Shri Rajam’s art awakens the divine presence within us; and we respond to the sublime images brought to us in his art. When that happens,...
The skulls and scroll work were then worked up to skull white fading and shading using washes of black to keep the recesses dark. The fists were brought up to a flat skull white ready for weathering later as they should look like they have been bashing through walls and crushing helmets ...
I did a lot of the sketching in the park and then finished them off at home and over did it with the water which looks too muddy. The water in the park is very discoloured but should have more reflection on the surface in the sun. Watercolour Sketch – Sukhumvit Park The third sketch...
Half a dozen hand-coloured prints from Mychael Barratt, bought at a rate of one a year from Liberty of London. My favorite was titled It’s not over ’til the fat lady sings. A print of three burlesque ladies in colourful corsets I bought in Sydney, because the women –a blonde, a ...
“This exhibition…covers Nolde’s complete career, from his early atmospheric paintings of his homeland right through to the intensely coloured, so-called ‘unpainted paintings’, works done on small pieces of paper during the Third Reich, when Nolde was branded a ‘degenerate’ artist and forbid...
Krishna has been accompanied by Nanda and the cowherds and how during the closing struggle with the tyrant they also have been present. When the fight is finally over, they prepare to depart, taking it for granted that Krishna and Balarama will come with them. Krishna has therefore to disil...