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The Likeness Part of a Portrait – Watteau
To master the capturing the likeness part of a making a portrait, try doing the same head three times. Can you maintain the likeness consistently in all three drawings? I am humbled by Master Watteau. Not only three drawings but three different angles as well. And look how beautifully laid out on the page they…
Portrait Drawings in Charcoal, Sanguine & Pencil
Was happy to be able to pay attention to the profile in these portraits. Which point comes the furthest forward? Is the lip further forward than the bridge of the nose? That sort of thing. Also, to do several portraits of the same person. Do…
only connect
“only connect” – e. m. forester Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that…
Our New Website! Blogging again
Our New Website! We’ve recently done a total overhaul: A new design. A complete rewrite of text. And a new selection of images from our sixteen years of running painting holidays. Guy Hazell, a website designer in Rome, did the bulk of the work. It was great to collaborate on a daunting & somewhat overwhelming…
blogging in bergerac, dordogne
Cyrano de Bergerac hanging out …. Been off-blog for long while now … bad school report I imagine, must try harder … Back to the studio I go.
Vignobles, Dordogne 1
‘Vignobles, Dordogne 1’ watercolour 28 x 38 cm (approx 11 x 15 inches). © The Artist. sold This autumn is particularly sunny. Blues skies, the leaves have stayed on the vines longer than usual. A winey golden glow, a haze hangs over the hills. This painting from a few weeks ago, now the leaves have…
Vine Paintings from France
‘Côtes de Duras’ Oil on MDF panel 30 x 40cm (approx 12 x 16 inches). © The Artist. Golden days in the autumn vines, the leaves singing in the wind. Plein air. Don’t forget to smile at the landscape when you leave, not always as evident as when you arrive. It was windy and…
Chateaux Painting Holidays Newsletter 2011
A warm Bonjour to everyone from us at CHATEAUX PAINTING HOLIDAYS 🙂 I hope you are not surprised to get this newsletter! Maybe it will give something to smile about once or twice a year. It contains a few tips to help your own personal painting practice as well as news of us. You email…
No posts + no comments= no blog?
slow death & boredom by blogging? Well, this is but one calculation amongst many … the blog is still here, even if me & it need a rethink. think on this: painters should only mediate with a brush in their hand – Balzac
