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Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils 2007-03-20 12:48:00 This is my 'back of the sketchbook' colour chart for my very first set of coloured pencils - a 36 pencil set of Lyra Rembrandt
PolycolourVivien has been so taken with her new set of Lyra Rembrandt flesh colours that I thought I'd show her (and the rest of you) a taster of what she's missing in terms of the rest of the range!I've tried a lot of different brands of coloured pencils - but keep coming back to my Lyra Rembrandt pencils. They have some great shades which achieve saturated colour very easily, never ever break and don't get temperamental. They seem happy to work with any other brand and particularly like Faber Castell Polychromos. For a proper review see below.I've done the colour chart image large so if anybody wants to try and decipher my scribble and check the names they should be able to - just click on the image and you'll get the large version.This is what I said about Lyra Rembrandt Coloured Pencils
in my review in the Wet Canvas Product ReviewMy very first c
Topblogarea - code malfunction 2007-03-20 11:24:00 Calangute Beach, Goa (1994) pencils and coloured pencilscopyright Katherine TyrrellDo you check your links once you've posted them in the right hand column? Yesterday I checked the "TopBlogArea" link on my other Sketchbook blog as I couldn't remember whether I'd got it listed in the Art Directory or the Travel Directory - only to find that the Directory generated by the icon seems to contain, on first look, a lot of Spanish language blogs and, on further investigation, a lot of adult content. I possess absolutely no knowledge of Spanish but even I can tell that it's also not the Arts Directory which is what is supposed to be listed. I think it's 'supposed' to be about technology. The adult content I'm much less happy with - and I'm certainly NOT in the business of spreading access to that sort of thing.I wrote yesterday but did not get a helpful response. "The code works just fine, it just doesn’t point to the correct category. " I wonder why sending visitors to the wr Read more:malfunction
Sketches from the 13th International Sketchcrawl in London 2007-03-19 11:27:00 Saturday did not go as originally planned, so my sketchcrawl ended up being local - down alongside the Thames just east of Tower Bridge. I started just east of Wapping Station and walked down Wapping High Street towards Pier Head with diversions to the Thameside Path.A brief description of each sketch follows - with links to a more detailed and individual post about each of these historic sites in my Travels with a Sketchbook blog. These links are being inserted into this blog post as these are completed - click on the link to read a more detailed post of the view in question.a view of Rotherhithe and the place from which the Mayflower set sail with the Pilgrim Fathers on its journey to Plymouth Massachusetts:Wapping Pier HeadTower Bridge from Wapping (to be posted later tomorrow)Click on the images to see a larger version and/or visit the River Thames section of "Travels with a Sketchbook in London" on my website.Over the River Thames is Rotherhithe. This is a site associated with th Read more:Sketches
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A new purpose and format for my "Travels with a Sketchbook" blog 2007-03-18 13:22:00 The "Travels
with my Sketchbook" page from my websitehttp://www.pastelsandpencils.com/travels_with_a_sketchbook.htmlIn future, in order to keep all the sketches I do on on my travels in one place, I intend to use my Travels with a Sketchbook blog for all the sketches from various activities associated with my trips to places in London and the UK - as I currently do on my website - see the Travels with a Sketchbook web-page (above) on www.pastelsandpencils.com.It will also continue to be used, as it has been in the past, for blogging about:the sketches I do on international trips,art kits/supplies for sketch trips andthe sketchbooks of other travelling sketchers (focused on people who sketch about places or use categories to collect all their sketches done on travels in one place)To get this started I'm going to post the images and narrative from past posts from this blog (which a number of people will not have seen) on the Travels with a Sketchook blog. I also want to try and organi Read more:format
Orphan Works and copyright: should you be worried (still)? 2007-03-17 12:25:00 Alstromeria Still Life10" x 10", pen and sepia ink in Daler Rowney sketchbookcopyright
Katherine TyrrellAn orphan work is a copyrighted work where it is difficult or impossible to contact the copyright holder. This may occur when works - such as photographs or illustrations - are published without any copyright notice identifying the originator who holds the copyright or when they become separated from the original copyright notice. The interest groups involved with orphan works are largelyfreelance artists and photographers,graphic designers,picture agencies andthe estates of deceased fine artists.A number of groups representing the above have been very concerned over the last year or so about proposals being made in the USA following the publication of the US Orphan Works
report in January 2006. I'm no expert on this so much of what follows is based very largely on material found on websites of organisations mentioned below - but I think I've seen enough to be concerned. Plus I
The National Virtual Museum - 24 hour culture 2007-03-16 11:37:00 Impressions at the National
Gallery (from Drawing Monet)11.5" x 17", pencil in Daler Rowney A4 sketchbookcopyright Katherine TyrrellThe weekend is coming up - what better time to have a nice leisurely outing to a museum or art gallery? But have you ever tried a virtual visit? I've come across this site once or twice before but was researching something recently and came across it again and realised I'd not shared.So - first an introduction to the 24 Hour Museum
and then some links to some good bits. I'm sure you can find some of your own. Please share them in the comments section if you do.The 24 Hour Museum is the UK’s National Virtual Museum, updated daily with at least two new stories including arts and museum news as well as exhibition notices, reviews, features and trails. The site promotes publicly-funded UK museums, galleries, archives and heritage attractions and seeks to get the message about Britain's great culture
to a broad online audience nationally and worldwide. (
13th International Sketchcrawl - Saturday 17th March 2007-03-15 09:23:00 10th Sketchcrawl: The Last Sketch - St Paul's Cathedral and Southwark Bridge11" x 17" double page spread in Daler Rowney Sketchbookcopyright Katherine TyrrellJeanne in California wrote to me last night to remind me that the next International
Sketchcrawl is on Saturday
17th March
. The Forum for the 13th Worldwide Sketchcrawl indicates that the current state of play on regarding places where sketchcrawl thinking is happening about places to go on Saturday is as follows:NORTH AMERICA: California: Sonoma, Sacramento, Los Angeles (Griffith Park), East Bay/Berkeley (3 pages of thread for this one on the forum so far!), Davis, San Diego; San Francisco; Arizona: Tucson; Oregon: Portland, Corvallis; Hawaii: Honolulu (see feature about a previous Sketchcrawl); Utah: on the road to Southern Utah; Florida: Ringling Museum, Tampa; Georgia: Savannah; Michigan: Detroit; Missouri: St Louis Washington: Seattle; New York: Albany/Saratoga; Lower Hudson Valley; Minnesota: Minneapolis; Indiana: India
Drawn! wins 2007 Bloggies Award! 2007-03-14 13:36:00 No 46, Ananda Cottages, Ubud, Bali8.5" x 11.5" pencil in Daler Rowney sketchbookcopyright Katherine TyrrellCongratulations to "Drawn" who scooped one of the 2007 Bloggie Award
s - announced on Monday this week. Drawn! came first in the Canada category which was a rather nice 2nd brithday present for this multi-authored blog. You can read about their reaction and their plans for the development of their blog here. They were also shortlisted in the most topical weblog which was won by Post Secret.The Drawn! site is a multi-author blog devoted to illustration, art, cartooning and drawing. Its purpose is to inspire creativity by sharing links and resources. The links and posts on Drawn! are written by a small group of professional illustrators, designers, and cartoonists. Learn more… (About 'Drawn!')You can also find a link to Drawn! in the right hand column of this blog under "Illustrated Blog Communities and Webrings" as it's a multi-author blog.You can read all about who won the r Read more:Bloggies
A Study of Cosmo 2007-03-13 11:56:00 Study of Cosmo
30cm x 24cmcoloured pencils on black Winsor and Newton Lana Tints pastel papercopyright Katherine TyrrellYou may remember my cats are trying for a place in the Society of Feline Artists exhibition at the Llewellyn Alexander Galleries in central London later this year. Polly's effort "Polly Paused" can be seen here.This week Cosmo has been auditioning for his place in the show. Yesterday he sat in brilliant sunlight in the morning which produced this study yesterday afternoon. I like my loose hatching approach (it's why I do it!) and I'll probably try to keep a lot of this as I develop the drawing. It also let me use some very unusual colours in the shadows and reflected light.I now have to try and decide on the overall composition. My current thinking is that I need to change the overall placement and size of the image. The space on the right hand side needs to maybe be reduced and I certainly need to add some more dark space to the top. Then there's the que Read more:Study
"Pastels and Pencils" - an art resources page 2007-03-12 09:52:00 On my website www.pastelsandpencils.com I have a page called "Art Materials and Other Resources" which identifies all the art materials and art suppliers I use - pastels, coloured pencils, pen and ink, paper, sketchbooks - and the rest! I started to develop this page last year. Gradually I've added in all the different items - and associated images - and it's now one of the most popular pages on the site. I guess we're always interested, whether clients or fellow artists, in what materials people use for their work!I realised just recently I'd never formally 'signposted' about its existence from this blog so this post is to remedy that omission. I've always been very grateful to the people who had websites which shared information as I developed my artwork and tried different things - and it's a pleasure to share the information I have - even if it did take a bit of time to sort it all out!While some products I use will continue to find favour over time (e.g. I've been us Read more:Pencils
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Pensions for artists and creative practitioners 2007-03-11 10:50:00 "P"pen and sepia inkcopyright Katherine TyrrellI have an eclectic mix on this blog - so why not pensions too! It's a serious issue for very many artists. Being self-employed or having a portfolio of working interests means that financial provision for pensions very often gets neglected or is badly organised.Are you concerned about your pension provision? Did you know that 70% of people working in the UK's creative
sector don't have a pension? That statistic and the reasons often given for not having a pension are a real cause for concern.the reasons offered for no pension are most usually given as "I am too young to need to have one" ... "pensions are too difficult to understand" ... "I'm never in employment long enough" ... and ... "I can't afford to save".So the Arts Council England, through their Artists Insights programme, are supporting a series of over fifty FREE seminars at venues across England from Plymouth to Newcastle during March and April 2007.The 2 hour seminars
Bernice Snowden 1951 -2007 2007-03-10 08:55:00 Chrysanthemum6.5" x 8.25" graphite on vellumcopyright Estate of Bernice SnowdenI was very saddened yesterday to hear of the passing of a really lovely lady. "bsnowden" was a member of Wet Canvas website and was somebody who started in the Coloured Pencil Forum and then moved across to also post in the Drawing and Sketching Forum where she pursued the Drawing 101 course and other activities within that forum. These were both forums in which I was active in BB (before blogging). As a result I'd rather lost touch with her but there are some people who you always remember and Bernice is very definitely one of those. I'd like to remember her here today.I think only people who are members of Wet Canvas will be able to access the following links - but this was her profile page where she describes herself as "optimistic/romantic" - and her optimism is one of the things that always shone through - that and her patience. Her interests revolved around her music, her poems, her artwork and
Abrasive Supports for Pastels & Coloured Pencils #2 2007-03-08 13:38:00 This is the second of two posts providing an overview of abrasive supports for use with pastels. Yesterday's post discussed a range of supports - Ampersand Pastelbord, Art Spectrum Colourfix and Ersta Sanded Paper.Today's post covers four different surface:Jack Richeson Premium Pastel Surface (new product)Sennelier La Carte Pastel (Pastel Card) / Rembrandt Pastel Board.Schminke Sansfix PastellkartonWallis PaperFuture posts will cover making your own abrasive supports using pumice or marble dust and this will be covered in a future blog post and the velour type papers.Quotes (in the boxes) which follow are all from the Dakota Pastels
website unless otherwise indicated. I was generally impressed with the presentation of information on this website - which specialises in pastels and associated art materials.Jack Richeson Premier Pastel SurfaceJack Richeson is introducing a new pastel surface produced on three different substrates:140lb. paper, 1/8” hardboard and 3/16” Gator Boar Read more:Pencils
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Abrasive Supports for Pastels & Coloured Pencils #1 2007-03-08 12:15:00 Christmas in Cheshire available via the Art for UK Youth North 2007 exhibition in April)5" x 15", coloured pencils on Art Spectrum Colourfixcopyright Katherine TyrrellI really like making a mark on an abrasive support when developing artwork involving either pastels or coloured pencils. So how come I've not done an overview about abrasive supports before? This post begins to remedy that problem and completes with a second post tomorrow.Why use abrasive supports for pastels and coloured pencils? I use an abrasive support for pastels because I find it invariably gives me much greater control over my soft pastel sticks. Adhesion is also very much better than when pastel is used on paper. Abrasive supports vary as to how much pigment can be laid down before the tooth is 'full' - some have such a good grip they positively eat soft pastel sticks.The way I use my coloured pencils on abrasive supports is very similar to the way I use pastels. The only real difference seems to be Read more:Pencils
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Pastel with Ponting - an online pastel class 2007-03-07 12:10:00 Dianna Ponting
SFCA, PPC, MPAC, PSA the current President of the Federation of Canadian Artists is teaching "Pastel with Ponting" an excellent on-line class
in the use of pastel right now! You can find it in "The Classroom" sub-forum of the Wet Canvas Drawing and Sketching Forum. This is an absolutely fantastic opportunity to learn about Dianna's particular approach for working with pastels.The class proper started on Monday (March 5th) and the way these classes generally work is that the tutor is present and generally active for the first two weeks - possibly longer if their time allows. The thread has already had 2,500 page loads and it's only been going since the 1st March when Dianna posted preliminary information for class - posts which are absolutely packed with excellent information and images about art materials for working with pastels. And her diagrams and descriptions of how she works in the class proper are simply fantastic!What do all those letters after her name mean Read more:online
Maggie Stiefvater: how does she do it? 2007-03-07 10:08:00 Gawain - a work in progress16" x 20" coloured pencil on pastelbordcopyright Maggie
StiefvaterHow do you become a best-selling artist? How can you find more time for your art? Bottom line - what are the "secrets of success" to juggling all the various demands and responsibilities that threaten to engulf you so that you can really 'make it' as an artist?OK - the time has come and the answer is here. I've written before about the meteoric rise of Maggie Stiefvater (see links at end) and I've been on at her for ages to share how she has managed to achieve her success. This time Maggie is going in for the 'big reveal' in her latest blog post "How to juggle and other parlor tricks". It provides an excellent account of the "secrets" of her success - and how she manages to create and develop her artwork, develop her art business and at the same time cope with all her other responsibilities and still make time for all her other interests - such as writing 65,000 word novels.Of course,
Symonds Yat and Art for Youth North 2007 2007-03-06 09:44:00 Symonds Yat - blue, green and gold12" x 18", Coloured Pencilcopyright Katherine TyrrellThis is a new piece of the view of the River Wye and its valley from Symonds Yat Rock in Gloucestershire in the west of England. This view is a particular favourite of mine. I've drawn it once before and the work just flowed! This time I loved drawing it and loved the end result all over again - I guess some views just make my artistic 'juices' flow. My previous piece is very firmly attached to my sitting room wall and is very definitely not for sale whereas this piece is for sale next month (see below)! Click on the picture for a larger image.This view of the woods alongside the River Wye from Symonds Yat is both extremely popular and internationally famous. However, as anyone who has visited the Rock will know, there's not a lot of space and there are usually throngs of people there - all keen to soak up the view and to see if they can spot the Peregrine Falcons which have a RSPB protec Read more:North
"Pastels Today" - The Pastel Society Exhibition (#1) 2007-03-04 11:41:00 Pura Ulun Danu Bratan19.5" x 24.5", soft pastelcopyright Katherine TyrrellYesterday, I visited "Pastel
s.htm">Pastels
Today
", the annual exhibition of The Pastel Society
(February 28th - March 11th 2007 at the Mall Galleries) and saw all 346 works being exhibited by members and non-members.I'm splitting my posts about this in two and this one is about the exhibition as a whole. The one that follows (today) is about some of the artists whose work I liked as I want to do the highlights justice. I'm also going to be cross-referincing Vivien Blackburn's post about the exhibition on her blog 'Paintings Prints and Stuff'. [Update - here is Vivien's post with links to the work she liked.]You can see some of work in the exhibition if you press the new button in the Mall Galleries menu 'Pastel Society Works for sale' or the 'Annual Show' menu item on The Pastel Society website. Having an online version of an exhibition seems to be very much the new thing that Societies need to do for annual exh Read more:Exhibition
Reflections on the London Art Fair 2007-01-25 13:27:00 Last Sunday I went to the London Art Fair
. It was really buzzing! It had galleries on three floors, used all the available space in the Business Design Centre in Islington and was absolutely packed with people looking at art with their wallets at the ready!The Fair comprises most (if not all) the leading galleries from Cork Street, Old Bond Street (eg Browse and Darby, Messums, Agnews, ) and beyond (eg the Lemon Street Gallery in Truro) and included some, such as The Fine Art Partnership, which don't have a physical gallery but rather trade exclusively in the original works of art on paper through the internet and select fairs.It exhibits and sells the sort of contemporary art which gets into the leading galleries - as well as established Masters who are already in Museums - with an emphasis on paintings and original prints although sculpture was well represented. (Maybe a bit more Lucien Freud than Damen Hirst?) Bottom line though it meant that the prices of much the original Read more:Reflections
Unison Pastels: Blues and Greys 2006-06-28 12:58:00 Today is the turn of the Blues
and the Greys. I don't really do a lot of 'blue' paintings but I so seem to use some of the blue pastels quite a bit for both highlights and darks. Over the years, I 've also grown to appreciate coloured greys more and more.There is a good range of hues in the blues box. From ones which are very useful in more subtle pictures and within a more traditional palette (for example in "Dunwich Single" or "Violets in a jam jar" below) to ones which command attention in brighter more contemporary pieces (see "The Fish Bowl" below). I used BV12 and some touches of BV11 in the latter piece and the pigment strength and cover is simply astounding."The Fish Bowl" is an interesting example of what happens when you have a go at using some of the colours you don't normally use! I had tremendous fun doing it although I'm not sure whether it's ever going to find a place on the walls of my home!The second box is a personal selection I made from the Greys series Read more:Pastels
Unison Pastels - Yellow and Yellow Green Earth 2006-06-23 09:28:00 These two Unison pastel sets are Yellow
and Yellow GreenEarth
. The Yellow set is the one set where I've lost a pastel. It's somewhere in Italy on the border between Tuscany and Umbria!None of the Unison pastels have names. They all have code names based on the set they belong to eg Y = Yellow and YGE = Yellow Green Earth.Most sets have 18 different hues and tints of that hue - and the pastels are then numbered 1-18. I find this makes it very simple to keep your pastels organised in their related colours if kept in their original boxes - which is what I do.On the whole, I've not come across many pastel brands sold in the UK that have a good strong pigment rich sunshine yellow - Unison is one of the few that provides such a shade with Y10. It was used along with other pastels from this set in "Spring Flowers and Pomegranate" which you can see at the end of this post.Yellow Green earth is a really interesting set of quite muted colours which I like very much and find very useful i Read more:Pastels
Mixed Parrot Tulips - in coloured pencil 2006-03-14 14:19:00 I started this a week ago - just after I did the pastel version - see Parrot
s In Pastel. The first two stages were done from life. Unfortunately I had to break off due to various commitments last week - but managed to get it finished last night as most of the work that was left was the work required to strengthen the colours and values.This is the final version is now included in the Flowers Gallery on my website "Pastels and Pencils" - this is the link http://www.pastelsandpencils.com/flowers.htmlart , coloured pencil
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..........and another parrot tulip makes three WIP 2006-03-11 03:11:00 I'm getting quite excited. I photographed my part-finished third parrot tulip
bloom with the other two this morning when I was photographing the amaryllis. I just couldn't wait to see what they all look like sat next to one another............it was the impact of the first two which made me want to do this third one.And this is what I got. I've just laid down the sheets of paper next to one another. Bear in mind that the third one on the right is only half finished.And then I got that nice comment from Linda on the last one suggesting I do maybe another seven instead of another one!!!And I'm already eyeing up some more parrot tulips - can you tell they are one of my favourite flowers? But I've also got the amaryllis, the pussy willow and the narcissi to do as well!!!What this exercise has convinced me of is the value of doing a small series of the same flower at the same time - and I'll certainly be trying this again.I'll post the third bloom when completed together with another Read more:makes
Amaryllis - pen and ink drawing 2006-03-11 03:03:00 I've got three stems of amaryllis (what's the plural of amaryllis?) for my "flowers from life " project - so I thought I'd better practice drawing
them before starting a painting. And the best way I know of really focusing on working out how somethings "works" is to draw in pen and ink. The fact that erasing is not an option makes me draw my lines rather more carefully in the first place.However, every time I do a complicated pen and ink drawing I remember that I really love to do contour hatching and cross-hatching. Which might sound a bit nonsensical - so I'd be interested to hear what you think.............This is on Daler Rowney Lyndhurst - which is a double sided high white smooth cartridge paper which suitable for line and wash. The pad is 20" x 15" and the image I'm showing you is about 15" x 12" and was drawn using a Pilot B-Tec C$ with a 0.4 fine point.art , drawing , flower drawings , pen and ink Read more:Amaryllis
The problems and pleasures of storage - and 3 "new" paintings 2006-01-22 13:44:00 In recent years, my main focus has been on producing artwork rather than selling it - and, as a result, I have artwork stored all around my home. I keep aspiring to a planchest but I'm not sure they are a practical solution for me. Instead I've devised a system of horizontal and vertical storage
files for my work - I've even got work sorted in terms of size.However, I sometimes forget where I then store the files! Or I forget what I've stored in which file. Memo to self: Must develop an inventory system!Anyway, my reason for writing is that I've just rediscovered some pastel paintings which were in a file I thought was storing some other paintings. It's always nice coming across old work. When I look at the work which will not be getting posted here or on my website, I have a quiet sense of satisfaction about how much I've progressed. When I look at the better stuff, it reminds me of what I can do if I've got time and the application.So here are the three paintings. They are al Read more:problems
Have your say on the future of the arts in the UK 2007-03-21 12:44:00 The view across Westminster from the top of the National Portrait Gallery11" x 32" pen and ink (two double page spreads in anA4 daler rowney sketchbook)copyright Katherine TyrrellWhat do you value about the arts and the public funding of the arts, and how might the Arts Council better meet your needs? Luke Smith, Project Manager of the Arts Debate sponsored by the Art Council, UK has left a comment on my earlier blog post about the The National Virtual Museum - 24 hour culture (March 16th) inviting people reading this blog to contribute to the online debate about the future of the Arts in the UK.Here's what he said........24hr Museum is a great resource, but should we expect more online facilities from 'physical' cultural institutions. If Making a Mark readers have views on the responsibilities of publicly funded arts organisations then lets hear them at the arts debate. This is Arts Council England's first ever public value enquiry and we've already had a lot of lively online
Taking a Line for a Walk 2007-03-21 11:28:00 Pages 84 and 85 Lucca "Taking
a Line for a Walk" copyright Christopher Lambert - used with permissionIn future the new revamped version of my Travels with a Sketchbook Blog will contain reviews of various books relevant to individuals travelling with a sketchbook. I'm anticipating this will include:the published sketchbooks of other artististic travellers'how to sketch' booksgood travel guides for an areamaps I've found useful in the pastSince I have bookshelves weighed down with the above it should mean I can avoid the stop/start frequency of a blog which is just about trips!The first of these book reviews has been posted on my other blog this morning. "Taking a Line for a Walk: 1000 Miles on Foot - Le Havre to Rome" - a facsimile edition of Christopher Lambert's sketchbook journal as he walked over 1000 miles on foot between Le Havre and Rome, crossing France, Switzerland and Italy. Here's the first paragraph of my book review.Paul Klee once explained that "a drawing is
Drawing Night - by the Thames 2007-03-22 08:35:00 Have you ever tried drawing at night? I've done it a couple of times recently when down at Bankside next to the River Thames
seeing exhibitions. There are some great views (and lights) and, of course, the shapes and values all change from the daytime. Here are some sketches and you can read more about the experience on my travel sketchbook blog here.These 5-10 minute sketches are of:1) the view of St Paul's Cathedral through the avenue of Silver Birches planted outside Tate Modern - great lighting effects and shadows.2) St Paul's Cathedral from Bankside - looking even more imposing at night3) the Millennium Bridge and the bridges beyond it looking west. This started off looking interesting and got even better as I sat there when a boat went past......... Technorati tags:drawing, London, pencil, River Thames, sketch,sketchbook Read more:Night
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Annual Exhibition 2007 2007-03-25 13:06:00 Richard Plinke painting a watercolour8" x 10", pen and ink in a Moleskine sketchbookcopyright Katherine TyrrellThe 195th AnnualExhibition
of the RoyalInstitute
of Painters in Water Colours
runs until the 5th April 2007 at the Mall Galleries. I visited the exhibition yesterday with Vivien and Glen before we moved across to the Royal Academy in Piccadilly to see the Unknown Monet exhibition - of which more in a later blog post.The RI exhibition is much bigger than the RWS Spring exhibition at the Bankside Gallery which I covered in my last post. The RI exhibition has 510 paintings, priced between £200 and £9,000, from artists working in any water based paint (ie including acrylics). Unlike the RWS, it also includes paintings from artists who are not members of the RI. The catalogue is excellent with very good colour reproductions of some of the members' work on the front cover and in the centre pages. Unfortunately, the society does not have a website, so I'm going to highligh
Royal Watercolour Society: Annual Spring Exhbition 2007 2007-03-24 11:15:00 Listening to Jonathan Cramp RWSpen and ink, double page spread in Daler Rowney A4 sketchbookcopyright Katherine TyrrellThe AnnualSpring
Exhibition of the Royal
Watercolour Society
- the oldest watercolour society in the world - is currently on display at the Bankside Gallery in London until Sunday 15th April. There are 187 pieces in the show all by members of the RWS and priced for sale between £395 and £6,000 with most work being in the £700 - £2,000 range.I'd highly recommend that anybody wanting to improve their watercolours should make a point of getting to see a show such as this - it really gives an insight into what can be achieved. Examples of the work shown by RWS members from last year's (2006) exhibition can be seen here.I do think it's a very great pity that digital images of work in the current exhibition cannot be seen on the RWS website while it is actually on (as happens with the NEAC website/shop). Also, online access to members' work is limited to clickin
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