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Nice interview with Michael. https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2021/06/28/in-conversation-with-michael-harding/

Interesting! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/arts/bacteria-cleaning-michelangelo-medici-restoration.html

Sad day for the art community https://realismtoday.com/the-end-of-an-era-richard-schmid-1934-2021/

Barium Sulfite (what this paint is made with) is found in synthetic (PW21) and natural (PW22) forms and it's an ingredient in Lithopone (PW5), so I guess the way they made this can be ported to oil paint? 🤔 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56749105

Really cool site full of illustrations with a good search function: https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/

So cool! https://www.openculture.com/2021/04/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692-a-complete-high-resolution-digital-scan.html

Know Her, a list of 20 groundbreaking artists from the turn of the 20th century who have been largely forgotten and written out of the narratives of modern art because they were women. https://yhaduong.com/know-her

The title says it all really... https://collections.louvre.fr/en/

https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/greatest-art-heists-of-all-time-1234583441/musee-marmottan-monet-impressionist-works-stolen/ Makes you sad reading about all of the works that haven't been retrieved or worse, those destroyed!

Amazing how it looks just like our palettes: https://mymodernmet.com/ancient-egyptian-painters-palette/

To be enjoyed! 📖 Article https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/raphael-sistine-chapel-images-high-resolution-180976819/?WW84 🔗 Direct link: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/explore-the-raphael-cartoons#slideshow=3891&slide=0

Watercolour on Winsor & Newton paper (rough, 100% cotton 140lb, 1/4 of imperial sheet) 🎁 A present for my brother

Thought some might find this essay a good read: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/primary-sources

The Jackson's Art blog has some interesting articles every now and then, I got an email that it is their 11th year and for that reason they chose 11 articles and present them here: https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2020/09/01/the-best-of-the-blog-on-its-11th-birthday/ Some good ones, never seen...

Last week, Alphonso Dunn an artist and author posted a video on youtube claiming that another artist by the name of Jake Parker (who initiated the "Inktober" movement), plagiarized the contents of his book. Jake Parker seems to be a polemic figure even before these claims, if you are...

Not long ago I got the urge to try watercolours for the first time (not counting the ones I used when I was 6 or 7 😆) and thought the idea of a sketchbook would be great, a place where I could paint without feeling any pressure that it had to be "good", just draw and paint with the added...

Same as the paint brand thread, but paper. Paper is what plays the most significant part in watercolour painting in my opinion, there are a lot excellent paint brands but without good paper you'll never achieve a good result. Since sourcing paper (and the price) depends on where you are...

Hello, my name is Juan Pablo, I've been a long time lurker at WC and just learned about this place, I look forward to actually participate in these forums! I'm a software engineer during the day, but my passion is art and have been more serious in the last couple of years, I currently paint...