by Patrick | Aug 5, 2022 | acrylicpainting, art, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography, Uncategorized
It’s been a tough year. Is that what happens as one ages – each year gets tougher? Physically I have always tried to exercise, even buying a share in a central London gym once at the height of the gym investment craze. Great place to exercise. Went bust of course. I...
by Patrick | Jul 16, 2022 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
The Renaissance was a period of renewal and innovation during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries: in painting characterised by innovations in paint technology and perception. Some, like Utrillo in his history paintings, focussed on the newly formalised system of...
by Patrick | Jun 14, 2022 | art, art as language, education, Lifestyle, oil, painting, photography, Uncategorized
I sat in the garden thinking (I do that a lot, maybe too much) and remembering the trip to the South African Delaire vineyard to see one of the most popular iconic paintings of the 1950’s and 60’s. Some say it rivals the Mona Lisa as a painting…(cough)… I remember...
by Patrick | May 21, 2022 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Garden, painting, photography, Uncategorized, wilderness
Blue shades through turquoise into green. Much as blue shades an infinite number so too does grass as a simple study of the lawn shows. How do you study grass? I recommend a sunny afternoon, lying down listening to the life in grass, studying the scents and listening...
by Patrick | May 12, 2022 | art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Uncategorized
I started to look at definitions of ‘Blue’ in writing the previous blog on the colour. My 1954 dictionary (a thick tome I grew up using after dad bought the dictionary and the 8 volume ‘Book of Knowledge’ from a door-to-door salesman) states “Ancient colour words are...
by Patrick | May 10, 2022 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, wilderness
“In visual perception a colour is almost never seen as it really is – as it physically is. This fact makes colour the most relative medium in art” “In order to use colour effectively it is necessary to recognise that colour deceives continually” “It should be learned...
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