[image_with_animation image_url=”9194″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] In the 1600’s, wood was a limited resource in the Dutch Republic (now the Netherlands), so artists either switched to canvas, or scavenged for wood panels. Rembrandt painted some of his works on mahogany panels from used shipping containers, still with the label and handles on the back.
Info from Suzanne Walker’s WTF Art History Lecture on Rembrandt
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! A while back I was Looking Closely at JS Sargent’s Portrait of Henry James. In the post I guessed at Sargent’s palette, his brushes, and a bit about his process. After I wrote that post I continued thinking about his process, did more research and more thinking, and …
The most recent V. Notes post had some personal favorites from the many Seattle Artist League Portrait Awards submissions we received. One of the artworks featured yesterday piqued my interest, so I contacted the artist, and raided his website and Instagram for images. Akira Ohiso recently moved to Seattle from New York. He paints …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8949″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Been a while since I posted. Here’s a cheerful watercolor clusterlump of flowers painted by John Singer Sargent in 1905. My stars, look at that beautiful blue! Each flower perched atop a brushstroke. That can’t be transparent blue to be that bright on top of other colors. Maybe he …
“…but when they get a bit besmirched, well then they are fair game.” – Diebenkorn “I don’t go into the studio with the idea of ‘saying’ something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.” – Richard Diebenkorn In the …
Rembrandt’s panels: “This Way Up”
[image_with_animation image_url=”9194″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] In the 1600’s, wood was a limited resource in the Dutch Republic (now the Netherlands), so artists either switched to canvas, or scavenged for wood panels. Rembrandt painted some of his works on mahogany panels from used shipping containers, still with the label and handles on the back.
Info from Suzanne Walker’s WTF Art History Lecture on Rembrandt
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