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Quick research 03
#capturingalikeness – observation and perception 03
Walking round the National Gallery while thinking about my portrait project, I snapped these close-ups of paintings I liked, selecting them for their range of styles and treatments. Live models would have been used by the artists in all cases, but in some, only as a starting point.
Mud flats, low tide and setting sun
St James’s Park Station, c1970
Another memory-jogger from the Museum of Childhood
George Shaw’s homely and unsettling vision of Britain
Quick research 02
#capturingalikeness – observation and perception 02
Walking round the National Gallery while thinking about my portrait project, I snapped these close-ups of paintings I liked, selecting them for their range of styles and treatments. Live models would have been used by the artists in all cases, but in some, only as a starting point.
Early thaw, Bearsville
Quiet moment at Paddington Station, c1970
Graceful Curves
#structuralcurves – noble grandeur 02
These flying buttresses throw out their arms to support the cathedral’s walls; the structural tension is palpable and the structural curves graceful.
