Wednesday 1 August 2018
by Wulf
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Last September, Jane and I visited Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast and spend sometime sketching down by the harbour. Today, at the Oxford Summer School, I concentrated on reworking one of the views I captured: I have some tall … Continue reading
Tuesday 31 July 2018
by Wulf
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Paintings change when you start working on them. In this one, based on a tonal collage based on a recent sketch, I was surprised to see the figure of William Shakespeare emerging: I started off by blocking in mid, light … Continue reading
Monday 30 July 2018
by Wulf
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Today’s word of the day for me is coccolithophore. These are single celled organisms protected by bony plates which cause them to reflect light in interesting ways. One of the other people on the Oxford Summer School course I am … Continue reading
Friday 13 July 2018
by Wulf
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I’ve been doing a fair amount of painting this week, although nothing particularly interesting unless you’re a Robert Rauschenberg fan. My medium has been acrylic gesso and my purpose has been to paint some photo canvases (the kind you get in … Continue reading
Saturday 30 June 2018
by Wulf
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Is this my best painting from the 30x30DirectWatercolor2018 project? I had a welter of different ideas for what to paint for the final day of this month-long project. What about another self portrait? What about that Buddleja globosa, for which … Continue reading
Friday 29 June 2018
by Wulf
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Today I’ve been at the ICTF2018 conference in Oxford – lots of IT people from Oxford (and a few welcome guests from Cambridge) to hear a range of talks on IT themes, some general and some very technical. The venue … Continue reading
Thursday 28 June 2018
by Wulf
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Today’s watercolour is a quick sketch of some rosemary: Given time, it would probably be sensible to try ten or twenty such sketches to really begin to explore what can be done. Here I was just beginning to experiment with … Continue reading