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Limiting
and Expanding Your Palette
A
Lecture for Schools, Colleges, Art Clubs
Some
artists avoid fully understanding the qualities and properties of the
paints they use. Many more are becoming aware of the importance of
knowing all about the nature of the pigments on their palettes.
This lecture has been devised to benefit those who are
interested
in
gaining more knowledge about the performance of their paints.
Content:
The
performance and limitations of commonly used pigments
The
selection and use of pigments for a variety of palettes
Taking
the guesswork out of mixing
How
to pay more and spend less!
Objectives:
To enable participants to:
Purchase
paints with greater understanding
Reject
pigments of limited performance
Mix
pigments more skilfully
Recognise
the benefits of using reduced, limited and complete palettes
Use
paints and other materials safely
Who
for:
Beginners
who feel confused by conflicting advice and daunted by the vast array of
paints available. (One supplier offers a range of 780 artists’
quality watercolours, 557 artists’ quality oil paints and a
watercolour tin with a capacity for 48 paints.)
Improvers
who have found their feet but feel they would like to choose
pigments with more confidence and enjoy a greater scope in mixing.
Paintings
to Appreciate
These
lectures are aimed at developing an appreciation of paintings by looking at the use artists make of colour to create the illusion of three dimensions, the use of space and other compositional
techniques as well as general interest.
The lectures are accompanied by slides showing paintings by a variety of artists.
Tone, Temperature and Intensity
This lecture looks at the way the great artists arranged colour and tone in their works. Artists shown include:
Boudin
Chardin
Claude
Corot
Courbet
Pissarro
Rembrandt
Turner
Van Gogh
Portraits, Landscapes and Figures
Portraits spanning four centuries, and landscape and figure painting across three centuries feature in this
lecture. Artists shown include:
Constable
Degas
Millet
Morisot
Rembrandt
Reynolds
Rubens
Titian
Watts
de Zurbaran
Paintings, Scandals and Gossip
A glimpse of personal insecurities, complex sexual liaisons and unlikely
secret CIA deployments form the basis for this lecture. Artists
shown include:
Vanessa
Bell
Cezanne
Gainsborough
Giacometti
Gwen John
Monet
van Ostade
Pollock
Rauschenberg
Renoir
Sickert
Toulouse-Lautrec
Whistler
Society, Seascapes and Saints
A celebration of secular, sacred and commemorative works in a variety of figurative and fabulous styles. Artists shown include:
Chardin
Cuyp
Durer
Gainsborough
Ingres
Manet
Raphael
Stubbs
van
Eyck
Velazquez
Vermeer
Perspective in Paintings
This series considers the early understanding of perspective and its eventual application to buildings, to people in the built and natural environments, and to skies. Artists shown include:
Canaletto
Constable
Gainsborough
Hobbema
Hogarth
de
Hooch
Pissarro
Poussin
van
Ruisdael
Uccello
Art of Oak 1
A rich mixture of landscapes, seascapes, portraits and interiors feature in these British paintings from the mid 18th to mid 19th centuries. Artists shown include:
Bonington
Constable
Crome
Gainsborough
Hogarth
Moreland
Reynolds
Scott
Stubbs
Turner
Wilkie
Art of Oak 2
Continuing the theme of paintings by British artists, this series shows works from the mid 19th to mid 20th centuries. Artists shown include:
Coldstream
Dyce
Etty
Grimshaw
Hunt
Landseer
Lowry
Millais
Orpen
Spencer
Turner
Waterhouse
Wilkie
Out of the Middle Ages
This series looks at the way in which artists portrayed the world, and their beliefs, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Artists shown include:
Andrea del Sarto
Botticelli
Bronzino
Ghirlandaio
Giotto di
Bondone
van der
Goes
Leonardo
Masaccio
Raphael
Titian
Paintings
of England
By
popular request, another look at English artists and their paintings
featuring works from Hogarth to Lowry. Artists shown include:
Bevan
Constable
Crome
Hunt
Augustus John
Lambert
Palmer
Reynolds
Stubbs
Turner
Morris
Wilkie
Symbolism
in European Art
This
fascinating series of slides unravels symbols and devices from the
worlds of mythology and emblematic imagery and enables us to decode the
hidden meanings concealed in biblical, mythological, apocryphal, and
allegorical paintings. Artists shown include: Botticelli
Bronzino
Canaletto
Correggio
Crivelli
Fragonard
Giordano
Leonardo
Michelangelo
Rubens
Tiepolo
Tintoretto
plus
Hogarth’s
six satirical moralizing paintings; ‘Marriage A-la-Mode’
Paintings
of France
The
second half of the 19th century marked an important and revolutionary
period in the development of art in France. Accompanied by examples of
works from the 17th and 20th centuries, this series covers paintings
from the Barbizon School, through the Impressionist to the Post
Impressionist era. Artists shown include:
Cézanne
Claude
Corot
Daubigny
Degas
Derain
Van Gogh
Sisley
Manet
Millet
Monet
Pissarro
Renoir
Theodore Rousseau
Celebrating
Ordinary Life
This
is a collection of mainly 19th century English Genre paintings depicting
scenes from the daily lives of ordinary people. Artists shown include:
Arnesby Brown
Bastien-Lepage
Clausen
Gore
Guthrie
Moreland
Parsons
Small
Lady Stanley
La Thangue
Tuke
Walker
Webster
Paintings
of Russia
This
stunning collection of portraits, seascapes, landscapes and figures from
18th, 19th and 20th century Russian painters contains images comparable
to, or surpassing, the very best of European works. Artists shown
include:
Aivazovsky
Arkhipov
Brullov
Flavitsky
Kramskov
Nitkin
Polenov
Repin
Serebryakova
Shishkin
Tropinin
Desert
Island Paintings
I
am often asked what my favourite painting is and the answer is there is
not just one. This selection of slides is taken from some of my other
lectures and represents a collection from which I would choose eight to
take with me if I were to be stranded on a desert island. A sort of
visual Desert Island Discs! Artists shown include:
Aivazovsky
Boudin
Bramley
Church
Clausen
Constable
Courbet
Derain
Gerhartz
Goeneutte
Guthrie
Pissarro
Sargent
Sassoferrato
Shishkin
Watts
Paintings
of America
American
painting shows the influence of the Impressionists, the Pre-Raphaelites
and Russian artists. But there is also a distinct American style to
appreciate. This lecture, in two parts, takes a broad view of the vast
range of traditional and contemporary talent from the 19th and 20th
centuries. Artists shown include:
Part 1: Alexander
Benson
Bradford
Bierstadt
Brown
Cassatt
Church
Farny
Garber
Gerhartz
Gonske
Grelle
Harmon
Part 2: Homer
Hopper
Inness
Johnson
Knight
Metcalf
Potthast
Richards
Rockwell
Sargent
Sheeler
Sloan
Spencer
Steele
Not
the Golden Mean
The Golden Mean,
or Golden Section, has been a guiding compositional principle for
artists for more than two millennia. Here we see how more recent artists
have used other techniques to offer pleasing compositions. Artists shown
include:
Andrews Barnet
Blake
Briscoe
Buffet
Clough
Coldstream
de
Grey Hammershoi
Lavery
McCulloch
Mondrian
Nevinson
Power
Sage
Sheeler
Sowa
Tissot
Waterhouse
Whistler
The
Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists
Following the
great Scottish Romantic painters, a diverse group known as The Glasgow
Boys revolutionised painting towards the end of the 19th Century. As the
group dispersed, four artists who were to become known as the Scottish
Colourists became their natural successors. Here we enjoy their range of
styles. Artists shown include:
The Boys:
Crawhall Dow
Guthrie
Henry
Lavery
Macgregor
Mann
Melville
Nairn
Paterson Stott
Walton
The Colourists:
Cadell Fergusson
Hunter
Peploe
Note: These
lectures are under constant review and are therefore subject to minor
variations in content
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