A demonstration of drawing a landscape with coloured pencils, from a photograph. Tutor is Nina Weiss.
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sketching landscape with Nina Weiss
“I can’t draw a straight line”
Many people say "I can't draw a straight line" - this is a great starting point, because there are very few in nature (except the horizon). Have you tried the freedom of collage? Watch Rebecca Maloney collage a landscape, from a few lightly pencilled guide marks, using coloured paper from magazines. And yes, she makes it …
Winter Photography: Alternative Christmas Tree
If you prefer your Christmas trees left in nature, unchopped, au naturelle - then an alternative for December decoration is to buy yourself a print from Sandra Jordan Photography. The print featured is "Winter Forest #1". And, encouragingly, that number would lead you to assume that there are other photographs in a similar vein. And …
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Collage! Photography, bit by bit
I like the way this guy approaches what he does - takes a photo then collages pieces of magazine to recreate the photo: large. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL0cEnZa7dc Giles Davies began doing collage after a career working as a graphic artist and in publishing - he made some pictures for a small group exhibition and found that they …
Poetry Pilgrimage: Little Sparta
Two days ago, I went to Little Sparta, Scottish home of poet Ian Hamilton Finlay - whose garden contains words set in stone, playful and very often anti-war symbols - a place of imagination with 300 word/art works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jee-4F0Xwxg "The garden functions as a political statement.... it suggests that as it is possible to transform …
David Hockney and the Grand Canyon
Happy 80th birthday, today, to David Hockney! In honour of his day, Louisiana Channel have posted an excellent 15 minute video interview with the artist, talking about his painting "A Closer Grand Canyon" http://bit.ly/2tfqPGk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnDAidgLZiE In the interview, David talks about: how photography tends to push things further away, so although he photographed Grand Canyon, he …
Another Way of Looking
Tatsuya Tanaka has been shaping everyday things into landscapes with miniature people figures.... this video is silent (why not have fun trying different background music to it). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eePFghQSNo8 See http://www.miniature-calendar.com for more, many more, and there is a fresh picture daily. The maker has been publishing a new one daily, so far for 4 years …
All about sky
I am intrigued by this painting of urban landscape but skewed to feature the sky: Frustratingly, this oil painting is not for sale. There are works also on urban landscape and sky by the same artist - for sale at Saatchi art - but none so mysterious as this. I suspect that the artist has …
I’m on the Riviera…..
with film star Richard E Grant. And the painter Matisse. And a BBC camera crew. As you've probably guessed, I am watching a BBC Arts documentary - "The Riviera: a history in pictures". (We have only seen episode 1. For UK viewers, episode 2 is on Monday at 9 pm, BBC4). http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ps9jr/the-riviera-a-history-in-pictures-1-painting-paradise Joyfully, our …
Highland Photographer: Iain Sarjeant
Professional photographer Iain Sarjeant takes wonderful photos of a range of life in the Highlands of Scotland: trees, winter abstracts, land and light, colour and form, a sense of time, human places... worth popping over to his website for a look. You may just find yourself buying a photo directly.... http://www.iainsarjeant.com/
