I walked home in and thought about the whole year, and by the time came I still had not written any of it down.
Artist
British Romanticism · 1775–1851
Turner exhibited The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken up at the Royal Academy in 1839. The ghost-pale warship — a veteran of Trafalgar — is hauled to the breaker's yard by a squat, black steam tug belching smoke.
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Observance
Find nature framed by something — a leafy arch, a cave mouth, branches around a vista. Tip: let a dark out-of-focus foreground wrap the edges to add depth and draw the eye to the landscape.
Colour of the day
Analogous harmony (blue-green sea)
Ivan Aivazovsky's The Ninth Wave (1850, Russian Museum, St Petersburg) is the most celebrated seascape by the Russian-Armenian marine painter, and its…
Composer
Czech Romantic · 1841–1904
Dvořák was the great melodist of the Czech national revival, folding the dance rhythms of Bohemia and Moravia — the furiant, the dumka — into the…
Every page above came from somewhere. This is the somewhere — a day’s worth of colour, work and weather, published whether or not anybody writes.
The sky today
Slow down. Pay attention. Your ordinary day is the one worth keeping.