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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"watercolour"”.
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Micro-fading spectrometry: an ivestigation into display of traditional watercolour pigment in anoxia
In this work a novel micro-fading instrument has been developed that has increased structural stability, hence increasing the portability over previously reported instruments of this type. Using this instrument several new experimental methods have been developed and applied for the investigation …
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Brushing the surface: the practice and critical reception of watercolour techniques in England 1850-1880
… has devoted little attention to the study of watercolour painting techniques and artists’ materials. This is especially true of the period following Turner’s death, when watercolour is said to have been in decline. Yet the period 1850 to 1880 was a period of intense innovation and …
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GESTURES TOWARDS EMPTINESS: AN EXPLORATION OF RITUAL WITH REFERENCE TO BUDDHIST TRADITION AND INNOVATION
… ashes on paper; papermaking; wood pulp; and watercolour. The written thesis entails an analysis of process and outcome in each series of works, seen in relationship to Buddhist and educational disciplines. A four-year period of pedagogical developments in small and large-scale groups is …
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The Narrative Print in the Works of John William North (1842-1924), George John Pinwell (1842-1875) and Frederick Walker (1840-1875)
… artists is no mere prelude to their work in watercolour and/or oils and needs to be examined in greater depth than has hitherto been the case.
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Edward Goodall’s ‘Sketches in British Guiana’: art, anthropography and colonialism in 19th century Amazonia
… part of a larger body of over 250 drawn and watercolour works labelled as Sketches in British Guiana, and carried out by Goodall in his role as official expedition illustrator. These sketches captured a wide range of geographical subjects, from botany, topography and zoology, to hydrography, …
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
… the scroll paintings employ pencil, collage, watercolour and oil, and a metaphoric fusion of styles and techniques of painting and drawing, notably Persian miniature and life portraiture as a means of accounting for and sharing the abiding experiences and encounters yielded through travel.
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
… the scroll paintings employ pencil, collage, watercolour and oil, and a metaphoric fusion of styles and techniques of painting and drawing, notably Persian miniature and life portraiture as a means of accounting for and sharing the abiding experiences and encounters yielded through travel.
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Saintly ecstasies: the appropriation and secularisation of saintly imagery in the paintings and poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
… in the practice of illumination. Rossetti's 1856 watercolour Fra Pace will be examined in this context. The pertinence of the example of St Luke, who used his art as a preaching tool, will also be considered, Rossetti having returned to this concept directly, and obliquely, throughout his career …
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Virtual Nature: A practice-led enquiry into the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of the painted monotype
My practice-led research explores the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of painted monotypes. This project has developed from an ongoing fascination with the visual qualities of photography and what happens when you translate photographs into other …
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Virtual Nature: A practice-led enquiry into the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of the painted monotype
My practice-led research explores the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of painted monotypes. This project has developed from an ongoing fascination with the visual qualities of photography and what happens when you translate photographs into other …