Tag: National Gallery

• Unforgettable

  Drawing at the National Gallery ‘Unforgettable, that’s what you are Unforgettable, though near or far Like a song of love that clings to me How the thought of you does things to me……’  (Irving Gordon 1951) Just walkin’, lookin’, learnin’ and takin’ a line for a walk. Making notes. Not copying. Studying. Learning from the…

  Colin Slater – artist

  May 3, 2024

  Art History, Drawing, National Gallery

  Aelbert Cuyp, Canaletto, Claude Lorrain, Drawing, Francesco Guardi, Frans Hals, Hendrik Avercamp, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Beerstraaten, Jan van de Cappelle, Jan van der Heyden, JMW Turner, Meindert Hobbema, National Gallery, Peter Paul Rubens, Philips Koninck, Rembrandt van Rijn, Salomon van Ruysdael

• Smile Like You Mean It

  Portrait Drawing at the National Gallery 2 January 2014 A visit to the National Gallery, with notebook and pencil. A day spent learning from the Masters to improve concentration, the discipline of looking and the nerve of working in a public space. With drawing, there’s no hiding place. (See also ‘Unforgettable’ – notebook drawings of…

  Colin Slater – artist

  January 13, 2014

  Art History, Drawing, Exhibition, Inspirations, National Gallery

  Albrecht Durer, Drawing, Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun, Giovanni Bellini, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, National Gallery, Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait, Rembrandt van Rijn, Rogier van der Weyden, Salvator Rosa, The Killers, Titian, William Hogarth