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With the Turner Prize turning 40 we are inviting you to look back at the work of the master himself and enter your Turner-inspired paintings for the chance to win a voucher worth £50 to spend at Art Supplies with Painters Online. You could even see your work feature in the magazines too! Follow the link for more details and to enter https://www.painters-online.co.uk/competitions/paint-like-turner-to-win-a-prize/
There's some top advice on painting like Turner from Alan in the 'how to' area as well!
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Nice one Denise!
Great competition and it gives you the opportunity to really express yourself, much as Turner himself did in his thousands of sketches and paintings.
Just to say that I won’t be entering the competition myself, I’ve taken a back seat on this one, but I believe that the link takes you to a feature I did on learning from Turner, published in The Artist last year!
Good luck to you all, go on…give it your best shot!
Ps. I don’t think they are looking for a copy of The Fighting Temeraire, (but they might), more like your own composition which has been influenced or inspired by Turner.
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by Alan Bickley
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Thanks for taking the time to look at my feature Carol! These discs are from Wallace Seymour, Turner 18c watercolours.
They resemble the colours that Turner himself used, and are made with similar raw materials!
I bought mine in a set about five years ago, they aren’t like normal watercolours, they’re very hard and are best used with warm water to get them activated. The Florence Red and Madder Lake are particular favourites, so evocative of Turner’s palette.
There’s also this other set in a wooden box, similar watercolours but in pans.
Let me know if you need any more information!
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by Alan Bickley
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Excellent, Alan, thank you for the information and the vibrant watercolour sketch.
I do like the paint pans in the box. Is that mineral blue fifth on the top row, and malachite second in on the next row.
I'll let you know how I get on with my search for these. I may be back for a little more help if unsuccessful.
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To be honest Carol, I’d go by the description on the website, but they sound a possibility!
It’s the Choosing Keeping website I believe they’re on, but I’ll check on that.
All the details were in my original feature in TA, but you may not have that.
Same paints as the discs, same Wallace Seymour company. Extremely expensive unfortunately, my box was sent to me by Rebecca Wallace to try out and include in my feature!
This is the extract from the feature:
Turner Colour Beginnings Historical 12 wholepan wooden travel box with ceramic palette
This impressive box of watercolours was kindly supplied to me by Wallace Seymour, but is available from the Choosing Keeping website
www.choosingkeeping.com
These paints have been created to emulate Turner’s own paint materials, their feel and texture, utilising historical pigments as those of Turner’s day. The wooden box contains the following colours, plus a ceramic mixing palette: madder lake, Oxford bluestone, green earth, Oxford ochre, gamboge, Davy’s grey, cinnabar, azurite, lapis lazuli, indigo, bloodstone grey, and vermilion.
Turner made hundreds of these ‘colour beginnings’ - mainly loose colour studies painted rapidly at the scene. I’m also using a set of Wallace Seymour ‘Turner 18C Watercolour Discs’, which I’ve had for several years now. Windsor & Newton Artists’ quality watercolours also make an excellent choice when studying Turner’s watercolours. Another important element when studying Turner is to look at the handmade papers that he used in his sketchbooks. Fortunately for us artists, some of these are still available today. Turner Blue, Turner Grey and Turner Nocturne handmade papers can be obtained from Ruscombe Paper Mill in France, along with a good selection of tinted historical papers of the period. Turner laid handmade paper is also available from Two Rivers Paper Mill in Somerset, along with a selection of other historical papers.
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by Alan Bickley
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You are a mine of information, Alan, and thanks for the link.
I do have both the Artist magazines. I buy the bumper pack, now, with both LP and tA, good value.
I read your features about 'choice of paper, and drawing with charcoal, soft pastels, oil sticks and oil pastels. It was after reading the last feature I tried out the oil pastels.
I'll read them again and find the relevent information.
When you say they are pricy are they similar money wise as A Gallo?
A quaint place. And it isn't far from Covent Garden, the area I'll be in when I visit London in December.
The price of the boxed paint is ok, it will be on the shopping list, and no doubt, a few other things.
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by Carol Jones