J.W. Waterhouse

Cheers, James. I'll picking up that issue myself when it comes out. Cant wait :)

Jim

Thanks so much for sharing this ... wonderful to know about Neil's article ... and to see Gather Ye Rosebuds while ye may in the magazine.

 I'm eager to read this! Where can this magazine be purchased? Do B&N or Borders carry it? if not, is there somewhere I can get one mailed to me? I've been experimenting with a copy and I've already discovered all sorts of things I'd never have guessed. It would be a great help to find out about another painter's experiences.

 Here in the UK, it can be found in some of  the larger branches of WH Smith. I went there last weekend but they didn't have it.
Otherwise you can purchase it from the magazine website - or alternatively this place:
http://www.magazinecafe.co.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/magazinecafe/_573/%2D/INTERNATIONAL%20ARTIST 

I got my copy of this magazine the other day and it's not bad at all (from the Birkenhead branch of WH Smith here in England). The Waterhouse article wont give any great insight into Nino's way of working but, as I've done a few copies myself, I found it interesting reading and the artist didn't do a bad job of 'Gather Ye Rosebuds' at all.

Interestingly, there's a another artist featured in the magazine called Brad Kunkle who does some beautiful paintings using oils along with gold and silver leaf. I searched on the net for some more of his work and found this painting of his (very different from his style now, it has to be said). No guesses as to which artist was the influence ;)

 Just got my issue of International Artist too at a branch of WH Smith.
I enjoyed the Waterhouse painting article and it looks like there's a lot of other interestin stuff in there about painting and painters. Good find on the Circe inspired painting, Jimma.

Thanks for being interested in buying a copy of the article. I have been in France till  yesterday and without Internet connection.

I'm working on a couple of additional articles that will concentrate on particular elements of JWs technique. This first article was submitted to see how difficult it would be to get published and I was quite suprised to have only minor changes made before publication. My poor photography was more of a problem, ..... the magazine's staff did a great job to rescue my shots and make them worth publishing.

While getting over jet lag I visited the Victorian Visions Exhibition in Sydney. Only two JWs at the exhibition, Miriamme and the small "Eastern interior with a seated girl".

Both were quite stunning in a room with Sandy's "Love Shadow" and Holman Hunt's "Il dolce far niente". Miriamme looked even more imposing than at the Groningen exhibition of last year (not to mention that there were far fewer people present so I got to really look closely at the paintwork).

It is interesting that the catalogue points out the modern approach to paint taken by Waterhouse, when compared to the other paintings at the exhibition.

One week of my trip in France was spent in Montmedy and Nancy looking over the Bastien Lepage Museum and other Naturalists at the Nancy Musee de Beaux Arts. JW remains the painter that impresses me the most, though Emil Friant proved to be a great compositional worker and even less well known than JW.

Regards
Neil

David K if you want to discuss any point of JWs technique I'm happy to correspond. The article in International Artist is more about artists learning from copying than an exposition of JWs technique. My access is to his works around 1882 to 1893 so his later work is not something I'm very strong on.

Cheers
Neil