Still life will be the topic through which the main focus will be on developing my understanding of colour. I do hope to revisit my attempts in the first part with the aloe in the glass pot, as I will end off this part with a still life. RESEARCH POINT...
BASICS OF LINEAR PERSPECTIVE I need to make some notes in my learning log, and being mindful that we will look at perspective in Part Four again. There are many types of perspective. To name but a few: aerial perspective, frontal perspective (or 1-point perspective), angular perspective (or 2-points perspective...
INTERIORS BY DUTCH REALIST GENRE PAINTERS Traditionally, genre painting is understood as the art of the everyday – and it’s something, the history of art tells us, at which Dutch Golden Age painters excelled. On the Museum Del Prada website I read that the Dutch Genre painters made small sized...
Optical effects as used by the Impressionists, Post-Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists in their optical mixing. Also view the work of Bridget Riley or the Op artists. My first thoughts is about the Impressionists painting on site - the plein air technique. They sought to capture the optical effects of light in...
Here I will do the exercises as in the study guide from pages 57 to 62. I read that our first exercise has to focus on an arrangement of objects, found in my house, that just happens to be there. What an interesting take! It could be in the kitchen,...
I appreciate the overall comments as they are encouraging me to develop my own painting process. My idea is to submit my work for assessment as part of the process to obtain a BA Hon in Fine Arts. With regards to my assignment painting of the baobab tree in the...
For this first assignment I am still drawn to the previous work with the baobab trees. I asked a friend who is to lucky to have a baobab in her garden and on in the middle of the street in front of her house in South Africa, to send some...
Rembrandt Doing the research topic on Chiaroscuro earlier, I read that examinations of Rembrandt’s paintings show that the artist used middle-tone grounds, which allowed rapid painting. He only applied dark and light tones, leaving the mid-tones of the ground. Most of his canvases are primed with a double ground, the...