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
Comments Off on Saving the Best for Last?
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
Wednesday 27 June 2018
by Wulf
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For today’s 30x30DirectWatercolor2018 painting, I’ve gone for an abstract reworking of an old photo of mine: The original image was taken at Carfax in Oxford at the start of Queens Street not long after I first moved to the city. … Continue reading
Tuesday 26 June 2018
by Wulf
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Earlier this year, one of my birthday presents was Tate Watercolour Manual: Lessons from the Great Masters by Tony Smibert and Joyce Townsend (Tate Enterprises, 2014). It is another watercolour manual but has a particular focus on techniques and approaches from … Continue reading