These have been such a help. On my shelf along with Vasari and Ceninni. Nothing can replace clear consistent instructions when learning and invaluable when creating. My notes are now trashed and being able to pop back on line and retrieve a new copy is great.
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Week 15: Preserving your Harvest – Bonne maman
Gather in some home grown produce — Read on http://www.bonnemaman.co.uk/be-inspired/preserving-your-harvest Honestly I think I have a guardian angle. I chose my children’s favoured brand of Jam to form my Triptych of Elevated Artefacts– Bonne Maman. I chose the flavour my eldest auntie made every year in autumn. Guess what they refer to Keats in their…
Week 15:Lucie Rie: A Secret Life of Buttons • V&A Blog
Lucie Rie: A Secret Life of Buttons • V&A Blog — Read on http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/news/lucie-rie-a-secret-life-of-buttons I wrote about a button for our memory piece in the writing workshop. Remembered object Button. It had an anchor on it. It had lines, scribed horizontally across the french brass surface, blackened for effect. The button was attached to black…
Week 15: ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.-Keats 1819…..200 years ago.
‘It is a wonderful picture’, said Keats of Benjamin West’s painting ‘Death on the Pale Horse’, which he saw in December 1817. ‘But there is nothing to be intense upon; no women one feels mad to kiss; no face swelling into reality. The excellence of every Art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables…
Week 15: Painters from my past at the National Gallery.
Two painters that Isabel mentioned in my final tutorial. I am familiar and fond of them. I made copies, with permission of course while studying for my Diploma in Portraiture. These paintings are important to me as they both show daily life, which is what I wanted to paint, although possibly only moments. All these…
Week 14: Mingei Movement. Kitchen sink art. Value the everyday and the ordinary. Saga Ware.
What is arts, is it produced only by artists, or is it something that people have routinely created throughout humanity’s existence? This is a question central to the Mingei Movement in the early 20th century. Mingei theory was defined by Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961). They promoted works of the ordinary craftsmen that spoke to the spiritual…
Week 14:Ode on a Grecian Urn
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn Wonder what Keats would have said to a Korean Moon Jar? By JOHN KEATS Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In…
Week 14: Ink & Die.
I remember reading about Jane Austin when looking for a day out in Sussex. I then read an article that said she may well have died from poisoning. The theory was that she made her own ink and it could have been the culprit. No one really knows. https://www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk/collection The old link to this page…
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