tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29173422243407614822026-04-05T13:19:35.970+01:00learning more about the development of landscape art - drawing, painting and photography - by exploring, sharing and doingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger228125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917342224340761482.post-25498513495744178592021-11-19T11:03:00.001+00:002021-11-19T11:03:29.034+00:00

For those who enjoy the paintings of the Californian and American landscape art, you can review many landscapes of the 19th and early 20th century by various artists - including Edgar Payne (1883-1947) - in this auction catalogue by John Moran Auctioneers.  The painting is by Percy Gray"A Lane Of Eucalyptus Trees," 192420 x 14" Watercolor on paper board under plexiglassThe Digital

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Stanley Spencer was a rather good landscape artist. 'Cliveden Woods' by Spencer, familiar #Cookham scene in our current exhibition. @VisitThamesCoUk @AlongTheThames pic.twitter.com/aTX4R0vEoH — The Spencer Gallery (@SpencerCookham) 8 May 2016 I must get to the Stanley Spencer Gallery at Cookham. Here's the description of the current exhibition Stanley Spencer: Visionary Painter of the

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Tomorrow the BBC will broadcast a programme about Forest, Field & Sky: Art out of Nature on BBC4 at 9pm. It's about artists interact with the landscape to create and make artworks. Dr James Fox takes a journey through six different landscapes across Britain, meeting artists whose work explores our relationship to the natural world. From Andy Goldsworthy's beautiful stone

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You too can be a Wild Card entry to the new Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year competition! Each of the heats are going to have places for 50 Wild Card entries. All you have to do is: enter a heat as a Wild Card bring your own easel, canvas and materials come to one of the heats at National Trust properties around the country paint one of the landscapes in front of the judges It's

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Read my blog post about the Call for Entries for the Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2015 If you're interested in: winning a £10,000 landscape art commission from the National Trust participating in an art competition which has a number of knockout rounds prior to the final; and creating landscape art on television - while Sky Arts film you for a television programme about their

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Tonight, BBC4 is repeating an excellent programme Tales of Winter: The Art of Snow and Ice which explores how the onset of winter has been depicted by Western painters across the centuries. The programme will be available on BBC iPlayer shortly after it is broadcast at 7.30-9.00pm. If  you don't live in the UK and would still like to see it, I suggest you take a peek at YouTube

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One of the most famous views in the history of landscape painting is "The View from Richmond Hill". In the last it was liked so much that it's now the only view in the UK which is specifically protected by an Act of Parliament. I've created a small website about it - The View from Richmond Hill - for those who want to know exactly where it is and what the view looks like - and some more about

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On the 12th November, a new exhibition of 50 paintings by the 19th century Norwegian artist Peder Balke (1804 - 1887) will open in the Sunley Room of the National Gallery in London. Admission is free and the exhibition will continue until 12th April 2015. Most of the paintings have never been seen before in the UK. This exhibition continues a theme of exhibitions of landscapes by

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There's an auction of "Fine Canadian Art" being held in Toronto, Canada by Heffel Fine Art Auction House on 27th November 2014. The majority of the works in the catalogue are landscapes. Heffel Fine Canadian Art Catalogue Cover The Trapper's Return by Clarence Gagnon oil on canvas, circa 1909 ~ 1913 signed and on verso signed and titled and titled 21 x 28 3/4 in, 53.3 x 73 cm $500,000 ~

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Images from the Peak Prints Collection The Peak Prints Project highlights both the art of the wood engraver and the place known as the Peak District. This area of Middle England is highly suitable for the art because of its plethora of woods and stones, crags and deep river gorges, ancient carved stones and picturesque farms, fields and barns. But hardly any wood engravings of these subjects

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I caught up with this post The Travel Bug by Susan Abbott on her Painting Notes blog. You can see her recent watercolour sketches of Paris on her blog A Painting Year and on her website (see below) - plus her plein air oil paintings. What I really like about her watercolour sketches and paintings is how she has a very consistent and recognisable

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Cover of the exhibition catalogue re. American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School You can download this catalogue of the exhibition American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition was held between 4th October 1987 and 3rd January 1999. The reproduction

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This is a video of a very hard-working plein air artist - Peter Brown NEAC ROI RSPP PS aka "Pete the Street".  You can see his artwork in the Annual Exhibitions of various national art societies at the Mall Galleries including: New English Art Club Pastel Society Royal Institute of Oil Painters Royal Society of Portrait Painters He's based in Bath and can often be seen painting on the

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"Landscape Pictures" is a new type of post for this blog. The aim is to have a periodic round-up about recommended blog posts and articles about landscape art - with an emphasis on those with decent images and places you can see landscape paintings. It will also allow me to highlight blog posts by artists just because I like the painting! LANDSCAPE ART - ANNUAL REVIEWS Prolific plein air

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Click the frame icon above the small thumbnailsto see the paintings in large slideshow Tate has put up a themed collection of artwork on its website relating to the theme of Winter Solstice It includes a number of landscapes and streetscapes of places in winter and by artists of different eras and styles. Click the box icon to see the slideshow version which is excellent. The paintings are

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You can read my review of the new exhibition 'Australia' at the Royal Academy of Arts here - Making A Mark: 'Australia' Exhibition at the Royal Academy - review. It includes paintings from 1800 through to this year's winner of the Wynne Prize. Left - Australian ImpressionistsRight - Federation Landscapes - in watercolour'Australia' at the Royal Academy - 21 September 2013 to 8 December

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Angela J Simpson's Plein Air Painting Kit Angela J Simpson is an artist, illustrator and landscape architect who works from her home in in the Scottish Highlands. Recently she has been challenging herself to produce a daily pochade which she then posts on her "diary without words". Last month she wrote a post on her blog about My kit for painting outside in which she

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Corn is harvested in August - however what's in the landscape painting of a corn harvest varies according to where the artist painted (see explanation at the end).  In Europe corn means grain.  Die Kornernte  (1564) by Pieter Breugel the Elder (1526 - 1569) (a.k.a. The Harvesters / The corn harvest / The grain harvest) Oil on wood, Overall, including added strips at

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I'm returning to the representation of the seasons and months of the year in paintings of landscapes.  In part, I do this because I very much enjoy records of the land at different times of the year but also as encouragement to landscape painters to create more paintings recording the land in specific seasons and months. This is Juillet (July) in the body of work known as Les Très

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Following on from the last post about an artist's plein air equipment. here's Bill Guffey's kit which he explains in this post - My Plein Air Equipment on his blog Bill Guffey. See a larger version in Bill's post You can see larger images of the kit on his post - just click an image in his post to see the larger version. I hope this gives you an idea of what, how and why I

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I love looking at the kit people take out with them - and am even more impressed when they do an annotated drawing for us all of what it entails. Below is the kit of one artist and at the end is an invitation for you to show me what your kit looks like. Below is the annotated drawing of a photo of the plein air kit of Rick Delanty. Rick says taking only what you need into the field is a

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Artists and Illustrators Magazine have issued an invite on their Facebook Page We're working on a plein air painting special for our Summer issue, taking four leading artists out on location for the day to find out how they do it... So we wanted to share the fun with you all. Tell us your favourite place to paint and why in particular you like it - the best responses will be published in the

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The Wynne Prize ($35,000) for Best Landscape Painting of Australian scenery, or figure sculpture by Australian artists had 773 entries this year - which is marginally down on last year (2012: 783 entries; 2011: 712 entries) The Wynne Prize is awarded annually for 'the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by

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Today I saw a work by George Rowlett which had won a £1,500 Runner Up Prize in the art competition for the Lynn Painter Stainer Prize. Advancing blue, yellow barges, Thames Barrier, early afternoon by George Rowlett Rinner Up, Lynn Painter Stainer Prize 2013 George's work is not so much impasto as huge slabs of paint which are trowelled onto and moved around the support - with a trowel. This

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This Green and Pleasant Land: The Story of British Landscape Painting is still available to view on iPlayer. It's available until12 February. Documentary looking at how the British landscape has been depicted, from Flemish beginnings in the court of Charles I to the digital thumbstrokes of David Hockney's iPad. It's also a repeat (and I've written about it before - see This Green and

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