//=time() ?>
David Michie RSA was an astute observer of people, illustrated here in a painting conveying the movement, drama and passion of tango dancing.
Find out more about Michie's work in our Viewing Room: https://t.co/ieayDCfYfK
Image: David Michie RSA (1928-2015), The Dancers, 2011.
This oil painted portrait is on a smooth, sealed, gesso primed wooden panel. Pre-primed surfaces are available to buy, but many artists prefer the more traditional, methodical techniques, do you?
#RSACollections #RSA #FemaleHead #Oilonboard #learningtopaint #FigurativePainting
Have you copied an Old (or Modern) Master's work?
It's a great way to learn & we'd love to see! #MyRSASketchbook
This cropped version of #Velazquez's "#LasMeninas" (1656 @museodelprado) is by JF Lewis HRSA. #RSACollections holds many such studies
#RSA #inspiredathome #painting
Newly available from the artist's studio:
Henry Kondracki RSA, Sailing Home, oil on canvas.
This work is featured alongside about 100 others in our online exhibition Academicians in Isolation.
https://t.co/TPkVEIe5yZ
An #RSA founding aim of 1826 was to nurture & sustain the Scottish artistic community. RSA #Artists often also taught, and so Elisabeth M Ouchterlony (1776-1854) learned the #neo-romantic style from the father of Scottish #landscape #painting.
#RSACollections #alexandernasmyth
In the second of our guest blogs, Dr Tom Normand HRSA recalls his home town Dunfermline's most famous family of artists
https://t.co/RPhlTItdWN
#RSA #RSAcollections #royalscottishacademy #tomnormand #ameliarobertsonhill #josephnoelpaton #wallerhughpaton #scottishart #arthistory
There is just TWO weeks left to apply for the RSA William Littlejohn Award.
The £2,000 award is to research, develop and produce a new body of work in a water-based medium.
Deadline: 28 June 2020, 11.59pm
Full details: https://t.co/GlNHaocsDS
Now online: Academicians in Isolation
Works by 30 Royal Scottish Academicians created during lockdown.
View the exhibition: https://t.co/CWqpY5M8nq
Image: Graham Fagen RSA, Lockdown Rainbow (4), Indian ink on paper.
Congratulations to Emily Moore who has been awarded the @EdArtShop Award for her work in the #RSAAnnual.
Check out Emily's work, and lots more on the RSA Annual Online site - https://t.co/L7SA33wM88
Image: Emily Moore, Untitled, £3,500 (or 10 monthly payments with @ownart)
Congratulations to Hannah Paterson who is the winner of the RSA David Michie Travel Award 2020.
Graduating with a BA (Hons) in Painting from @GraysArtSchool Hannah will use the award to visit the salt mines in Salzburg and Krakow, to conduct research on the salt material.