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And just after I told you all to go there too! Sorry. Bad timing.
National Gallery staff strike shuts down most exhibitions | Art and design | The Guardian.
11 Tuesday Aug 2015
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And just after I told you all to go there too! Sorry. Bad timing.
National Gallery staff strike shuts down most exhibitions | Art and design | The Guardian.
09 Sunday Aug 2015
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If you get a near it – and you will because it’s so central – take the time to go into the National Gallery at the top of Trafalgar Square. It’s free and it has PLENTY of seating right in front of some of the most celebrated paintings OF ALL TIME!!!! Feel free to read that again in Kanye’s voice.
Even if art isn’t your “thing”, you will know what these paintings are and by whom. You will. Trust me. You will have heard of these artists – because they’ve been referred to in modern culture so many times – THAT’S how very good they were.
My main man Van Gogh is here – but not his Starry Nights which is my favourite (not only because of the Doctor Who episode with that magnificent speech by Bill Nighy that was superb!) but his Two Crabs which is my second favourite work of his. His Sunflowers is also here – more well known than his other paintings and certainly the focus of the tat in the gift shop. But for mine, Two Crabs is glorious. The colours get me every time. He painted this the year before he took his own life.
Works by Degas are here – his beautiful dancers.
Monet and Manet – side by side even so you can get the differences straight 🙂 Renior, Dürer, Constable, Talouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Cezanne…honestly. This is the who’s who of the age AND it’s only one section of the gallery.
While away an hour or two. Sit and sketch from some of the very best. Have a coffee in the cafe and come back for another few hours. It truly is a magnificent place – even the ground you walk on is beautiful.
27 Tuesday Aug 2013
Stamen’s website allows you to type in a place and it renders a map of it in watercolour. Fantastic for scrapbooks of travel, framed on your home’s “Wall of Life”, or part of your travel journal all marked up with where you have been – or want to go!
Go here – http://maps.stamen.com
Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under CC BY SA.
27 Tuesday Aug 2013
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This Tumblr site makes me smile. Whimsy and fun all together. This is what art is about for me.
11 Tuesday Sep 2012
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Posted by laurenetrim | Filed under art, musings
01 Friday Jun 2012
I’m looking forward to moving in to my own place – but the thing I’m most excited about is painting one single wall in a room.  That’s all.  It’s the only thing that would make me happier in the place.  Strange by true.  It’s currently a happy and bright blue colour – a cross between Valleys Diehard and French Royal – but it’s too bright for my idea of a bedroom.  My perfect bedroom is dark and cosy – so paint will be the order of the day.  I don’t want fancy shmancy, no tricky techniques, just a deep and calm colour.  I was tossing up a purple, but think I’ll go a dark storm grey … kinda like this…how exciting. 🙂
20 Sunday May 2012
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Another Banksy got wrecked in Australia this week – the parachuting rat bit the dust. Â I’m not sure Banksy would care really. Â Graffiti in itself is meant to be transient. Â A fleeting glimpse of something a little more special decorating the ugly functional walls we build to trap ourselves.
I call his work art because it makes me consider the reality of life I might not normally see or understand. Â It’s poignant. Â It’s simple. Â It packs a punch. Â It’s much more than glary colours and funked up lettering.
This is art. Â Long may it reign.
20 Sunday May 2012
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06 Sunday May 2012
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Not a bad subject to try to get my eye in on. Â Gorgeous George. Â Well, sort of. Â I’ve broadened him somewhat and his nose is too bulbous, but I’ll keep on practising. Â I know I’m very rusty – and it’s something I want to get back into.
The hardest thing to do is to not tear it up along the way – my “internal critic” is a vicious bitch at the best of times. Â Imma gonna slap her silly for as long as I can.
18 Wednesday Apr 2012
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