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William Turner – Modern Rome: Campo Vaccino
This is probably old news to those of you who love art and follow the market, but I was browsing the website of Sotheby’s to find information on old masters and came across their video section, where a short intro to this painting by William Turner is available. The experts from Sotheby’s explain briefly why…
Art Discussions
I was searching “Richard Schmid” on youtube (thanks, teach, for the tip!) and I found this interesting discussion about today’s technologies and what effect this may have on our ways of working as traditional, representational painters. Some passages felt very recognizable as I have been dealing with the some of the same questions for quite…
The Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, The Netherlands
One of the musea out there in the world that I really want to visit is the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem.They have a wonderful collection of 17th century paintings. There is an exposition until jan 30th 2011 about the restauration of 5 paintings from Cornelis Dusart, Pieter de Grebber, Cornelis van Wieringen, Karel van…
Selfmade Easel
Here’s what has been keeping me busy lately: My own large easel!It took me a while to build it because I have 2 left hands and praktically no tools.But I did it! I went for the cheapest wood I could find since this was my first attempt, but as I went along pretty well, I…
Running Corel Painter on Win7 RC 64bit
1. Chosing new system components and building the new rigMy old PC, a P4 2800C running WinXP 32bit, was nearly dead. Even though I kept quite clean and did regular maintenance, it was getting really really slow, but the thing that bothered me the most was that it sounded like an aeroplane taking off. A…
Animal Studies
A couple of years ago I got my hands on a really wonderful collection of animal illustrations. They were part of a commercial campaign at Delhaize, one of Belgium’s biggest supermarket chains.It contains birds from our regions, wildlife, cats, endangered species and butterflies.These illustrations are all made by the same artist, of whom I do…