Waving Goodbye

Blogger have just informed me that the old blogger interface is going shortly. My health is not good most days and I can't struggle with the new interface that doesn't format properly, schedule properly and who's only good thing seems to be to re size pictures better. And don't start me on the horrible new verification.

I know a lot of you don't like Facebook, but its easier than this load of codswallop. Have a happy life, I am not going to spend the time I have left, fighting Blogger.

Just a point - google doesn't seem to index fb entries and photographs, so I'll have to think about tumblr or pininterest.

I can only apologise but enough is enough for me. I loved Blogger when I started.

Phillip Brown

Victorian paints

A Victorian bladder of paint before tubes were invented. Some artists preferred glass jars. The bladders would have been made from pig membrane and tied at the top with strong twine to exclude air. Artists had a wide choice of pigments that came from minerals, precious stones, rocks, vegetables, insects and plants. Some of the new colours he used came about by the advances of modern chemistry. He used: lead white, zinc white, ultramarine ash, vermilion, chromium oxide, zinc yellow, chrome yellow, cobalt blue, Prussian blue, burnt sienna, Naples yellow, madder lake, ivory black and bone black. Greens were mixed greens of chrome yellow and Prussian Blue, possibly from a tube of green paint.

Artists would have mixed their oil paint (a mixture of pigment and oil) with another liquid to make the pigment more fluid and transparent. This liquid is called the medium and a common one used was copal medium, a resin (a sticky substance produced by trees) dissolved in oil (see image) to make the paint more fluid.

Before the introduction of ready-made paint, artists had to mix paint themselves.

Victorian cricket icon for sale

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55721

New York

James Sant #4

James Sant #3

James Sant #2

James Sant

Berkshire, Sonning Village

A Woman's Protest (Clough) by John Liston Byam Shaw,

“Notice Neptune, though . . . ” - John Liston Byam Shaw c. 1900

The Studio (1900)

This illustration to Robert Browning's “‘My Last Duchess” has the full title “Notice Neptune, though, / Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, / Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me.’ Robert Browning. From a Watercolour by Byam Shaw, R.I.”

The artist has depicted the close of Browning's poem, which appropriately closes with the vicious duke's relating how he tamed his “last” wife, who now survives only in a work of art he owns, with the image of a work of art depicting another act of “taming.”

Love that Wastes Our Little Schoolgirl's Time - John Liston Byam Shaw Before 1899 The Studio

The Caged Bird - John Byam Liston Shaw, 1872-1919 1907

Anstey’s Cove, John William Inchbold

Jack Butler Yeats

Self Portrait, Ralph Hedley

Vesta Tilley

 Originally named Matilda Alice Powles (1864 – 1952), she was the most famous and well paid music hall male impersonator of her day. She was a star in both Britain and the United States for over thirty years. Her father was a comedy actor and sometimes theatre manager, and Tilley first appeared on stage at the age of three and a half. At the age of six she did her first role in male clothing under the name Pocket Sims Reeves, a parody of then-famous opera singer Sims Reeves. She would come to prefer doing male roles exclusively, saying that “I felt that I could express myself better if I were dressed as a boy”.

Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1889

Maggie Hamilton Mrs AN Paterson by Sir James Guthrie

Portrait of Stoddart Walker's wife by Sir James Guthrie

The Morning Walk by Sir James Guthrie

Street in Oban Night by Sir James Guthrie

Mr. Palethorpe’s jealousy aroused. John Leech, from Colin Clink vol. 3, by Charles Hooton, London, 1841.

Portrait of a girl holding a lily - John Simmons,

Eiffel Tower being built

Sitting on a Gate, Bushey by Thomas Edwin Mostyn 1893

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/thomas-edwin-mostyn/paintings/slideshow#/2

Peace - Thomas Edwin Mostyn

Tom Mostyn - Sunshine

http://www.rehs.com/tom_mostyn_virtex.htm

Tom Mostyn - A Parisian Garden

Hercules and the Hydra, the Second Labour by Violet Brunton 1910

Evening, Storm Clearing Off by John Linnell

Thomas B. Seddon, Boats on the Nile

Thomas Seddon, Pyramids of Gizeh — Sunset Afterglow c. 1856

Vita Sackville-West at Ascot, June 1912

Devon, Brixham, Breakwater

A Favour, 1898 - Edmund Blair Leighton

A King and a Beggar Maid, 1898 - Edmund Blair Leighton

Old Times - Edmund Blair Leighton

How Liza Loved the King, 1890 - Edmund Blair Leighton

Berkshire, Eton, Eton College, Keate House

Bedroom, Barhouse, Beverley - Mary Dawson Elwell

Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee - Portrait of Elsa - Daughter of William Hall,

Balloon engraving

Hush, ca 1875 - James Jaques Joseph Tissot

Bournemouth 1919

John Singer Sargent - Muddy Alligators

John Singer Sargent - Gondoliers’ Siesta

John Singer Sargent - Morning Walk

Mrs Reginald (Daisy) Fellowes - John Singer Sargent

Mary Louisa Gow - The Young Scholar