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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Laetare Sunday

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"Rejoice, O Jerusalem: and come together all you that love her: rejoice with joy, you that have been in sorrow: that you may exult and...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Egg tempera and the Renaissance

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Fascinating talk on egg tempera painting in the early Italian Renaissance. He's got a few modern prejudices - especially about Byzant...
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Monday, March 18, 2019

The body matters: the interment of King Richard III

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We know instinctively, down to our bones, that the body is important, even after death, that Descartes and all his followers were wrong; the...
Friday, March 15, 2019

First fruits

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Well, first flower heads, at any rate. Cut the first Romanesco broccoli of the season last night and had it for dinner. A bit early, s...
Saturday, March 09, 2019

Walking the hair-thin line between Zen serenity and madness...

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When you're walking around the house looking for things to dust... It doesn't usually look like this.  I've been mak...
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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Russian mass-heater

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So, this actually answers a question I had years and years ago about a Russian novel I was reading - or maybe it was a play - in which a ch...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Medieval painting; how it's done

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Conservators and other art-expert people know now that certain pigments are more chemically stable than others. The green, apparently, las...
Monday, January 21, 2019

Art supply news and adventures in Egg Tempera

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Nitram, for those outside the world of traditional academic drawing circles, is the most important artists' charcoal producer in the wor...
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Thursday, January 03, 2019

You don't have to live like they tell you: home-made log cabin edition

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Lately can't seem to get enough of these outdoors, camping, bushcrafting, build-a-fort-in-the-woods videos. We admire people who know h...
Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Octave Day of Christmas

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Bet you didn't know the story of the Christmas Moose, did you? It's a Canadian thing...
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