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Renoir: first the book, now the film!

17/2/2016

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I've a lot to thank Pierre-Auguste Renoir for. Writing and illustrating my second book Paint Like Renoir (Octopus Books) taught me a huge amount about oil painting. In order to emulate Renoir's technique I had to try things that I had often thought of trying, but always put off for another day. Things such as painting on a white canvas surface, diluting the paint with linseed oil and turps and painting loose shapes as opposed to drawing out my subject first. I had to buy new tubes of colours that I hadn't used before and began to experiment with greater quantities of thick oil paint made fluid with oil and then floated on the wet painting's surface.  When the book was finished I then went on to employ many of these approaches in my own work and I believe that, thanks to Renoir, my paintings are nowmore vibrant and 'painterly' than before.
A few months after the book was published I was contacted by a film maker Phil Grabsky of Exhibition on Screen  www.exhibitiononscreen who was making a film about Renoir's late nudes and exploring his life and work through the collection at The Barnes Foundatioin, Philadelphia. He interviewed me on film and asked me to demonstrate some of the artist's approaches and discuss the ways in which Renoir's technique and his use of colour evolved in the later years. The film has it's premier tomorrow in London and will be shown first in Edinburgh on 23rd February at The Vue cinema, Omni Centre, 7pm.  http://www.myvue.com/latest-movies/info/cinema/edinburgh-omni-centre/film/renoir-the-unknown-artist and then on 14th March at The Cameo  https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Cameo_Picturehouse/film/exhibition-on-screen-renoir-reviled-and-revered

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    Damian Callan is a practising figurative artist and tutor based in Edinburgh.

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