Australian painting
Reading an Australian landscape painting
How Australian painters have handled light, distance and the horizon, from Heidelberg plein air to the aerial view, and how to read the marks on a canvas.
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Looking closely
How to spend time with a painting: brushwork, colour, composition, labels and the habits that make looking stick.
Looking closely
How to look at a painting slowly
A simple, unhurried method for spending ten to twenty minutes with one painting, from first impressions to the label, with a worked example to try.