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Ink Paintings on rice paper On my recent trip to Hangzhou China, I bought some art materials from local merchants there. The materials consisted in some Chinese brushes, black and red ink cakes, a stone slab and some rice paper. While I was in Hangzhou, and consequently after the trip, I had done some work …
Maccarese Beach I’ve recently been reading about ‘Ethics’ and especially in terms of ‘Analytic Ethics’. It’s interesting to apply some of this logic to the field of painting. Let me first try to simplify what I have read. It is customary to speak about three levels of ‘Analytic Ethics’ which correspond to the idea of …
I’m going to tell the story of how this website has come about. Let’s say there was once a painter. He grew up with an attraction to art. Strange thing in the middle of the state of IOWA; no museums, no galleries, no artists, no, no. It must have been in his DNA since a …
Friday the 24th of June was the feast day of Saint John the Baptist and on that day I went to Grottaferrata for a retreat with the prayer group that I have been following for the past three years. The trip was short; only about forty-five minutes, but the distance from Rome to the nearby …
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En Plein Air Painters is a cultural project. En Plein Air painting (or just ‘plein air’) can be an exclusive way to work or an addition to studio work executed indoors. Either way, the experience of painting in the open air remains important to the artist’s Oeuvre throughout the history of art. Workshops are an …