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A challenge to paint an abstracted urban scene
This project is about conveying the essence of an urban scene without the detail, as an abstraction, not pure abstract.
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A waterbrush has a familiar-looking bunch of bristles at the one end, but the handle is more like a fountain pen in that it's a reservoir. As you use a waterbrush, water seeps down onto the bristles, keeping them permanently moist.
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Deadline for Urban Abstraction Painting Project Extended
Wednesday July 23, 2008
I've extended the closing date for submissions for the Abstracting an Urban Scene Painting Project to Friday 22nd August 2008. So if you've been thinking about tackling the project but haven't yet, you've now got a few more weeks (and I've got more time to deal with submissions piling up in my intray while I deal with some curve balls life has thrown).
In Art Sensations are Condensed
Monday July 21, 2008
"Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories...
"Like music, it acts on the soul through the intermediary of the senses... hearing can only grasp a single sound at one time, whereas the sight takes in everything and at the same time simplifies at its will."
-- Paul Gauguin, notes on painting made in a sketchbook c.1889-90
See Also: Palettes of the Masters: Gauguin
"Like music, it acts on the soul through the intermediary of the senses... hearing can only grasp a single sound at one time, whereas the sight takes in everything and at the same time simplifies at its will."
-- Paul Gauguin, notes on painting made in a sketchbook c.1889-90
See Also: Palettes of the Masters: Gauguin
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