Monday, September 29, 2025

DRAWING LESSON NUMBER ONE ... MINIMALISM ... you don't need to draw every detail... you don't need to draw every detail exactly ... if your lines are near enough then the people who look at your your drawing already have brains that evolved to fill in the gaps back in the mists of time ...

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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Academic painter PUVIS DE CHAVANNES made the MUSES look rarther dull in what might have been a livelier composition had any of the ladies shown signs of feminine vitality ... TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, the naughty boy, immediately shot him down ... both paintings date from 1884

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Friday, September 26, 2025

GOLTZIUS ... "Sine cerere et Baccho friget Venus"

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drawn in maybe 1588 to 1592 https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Venus-en-Cupido--ea88b42139f540bcb7f096924d711142?tab=data drawn...
Monday, September 22, 2025

IRIS painted by John Atkinson GRIMSHAW ...

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Christie's Auction Notes Fai ries and fairy tales presented Victorian artists with an accepted vehicle to explore taboo subjects such as...

the HACK ... El Vino ... Geoffrey Van Hay and Stuart KUTTNER

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January the 8th, 2010 ... Saint Katherine's Church at Merstham in Surrey ... i was driving my little truck back into london on a very co...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

ALBERT DECARIS ... illustrations for DON QUIXOTE ... rarther fabulous !

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https://www.librarything.com/topic/227314  

ALBERT DECARIS made three rarther splendid engravings illustrating the tale of EUROPA ABDUCTED BY THE BULL ...

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Magritte ... La memoire ... Sotheby's auction notes ...

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In a letter to Claude Spaak written during the opening days of 1941, René Magritte outlined the principle idea that had been driving his mos...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Art ... illustrations by Colin Forward from around 1960 ... this is a first draft ... I'm hoping Blaise Vyner will have more details in due course.

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Some Flying Saucer Enthusiasts around 1960 … unexpected relics have recently come to light.   My friend, Dr. Blaise Vyner, surprised m...