Posts for »July, 2010«:

Turner at the Tate Britain

25th, July 2010 - 05:12 PM

© Marc Volquardsen

At the Tate Britain in London works of the british painter William Turner are shown. In a special room they explain how his printing technique as well as his color palette had changed over the years. In his early works he used organic and mineral pigments and when later the industrie introduced new pigments he used them too. I very much liked a display, where they showed how his colors had changed during his travels, especially after he had visited Germany and Italy.
The best thing probably was a set up, like the students used to copie Turners work in the 19th centuary. The visitors are invited to do the same. Somehow cool to sit in front of one of Turners originals drawings and copie them.

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Squirrels

18th, July 2010 - 03:54 PM

Sketch, Ink& Aquarell,
© Astrid Volquardsen

The last weeks we were in England and Wales to go camping and hiking. The first couple of days were spent in London where we did find a lovely camping site. Also lovely were our camping comrades, very cute and as we found out later, bold squirrels.

© Marc Volquardsen


On the campsite were signs which pointed out that the squirrels loooove food and that it shouldn’t be left in the tents. We took care of that but were somehow foolish regarding our chocolate spread. One day we found the glass opened, half emptied and the other half spread accross the tent. ( I wonder if that is the reason why it’s called chocolate spread…?)
Our Dutch camping neighbours told us, that they saw them the other day escaping with their bred.
The campsite had also put up a warning that the foxes who roame around, love shoes. We took that one very serouisly…

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Lafayette in Paris

11th, July 2010 - 03:40 PM
© Astrid Volquardsen

© Astrid Volquardsen

As I looked trough my photos of Paris, these ones catched my eye again. I’m not exactly a shopping girl, but this interior of the department store Lafayette even impressed me. And now imagine a women dressed in the gown shown below. Degas can’t be far away!

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Colour impressions

4th, July 2010 - 09:09 AM

Farbimpression, 10×17 cm, Pastell, 2010
© Astrid Volquardsen,

Another color impression. The more often I do it, the more I do enjoy it.

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