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Hi to all on this beautiful day loving this weather, gone are the days when I would lay out in the sun getting roasted just to get a tan. Don't do, it has consequences in later life. to day I thought we might look at some of my images from the past.   This is a charcoal drawing on material we had to make a little book for school when doing my Diploma in Visual Arts  This was another drawing of the same time book  This I took in 1998 for school when doing a cert in Photography and darkroom Procedures.  This was taken at the Melbourne Zoo not sure when think it was around 2010  Melbourne Zoo Full moon last year Snakeskin, taken with a macro lens Closeup of my eyes after my father, then a year later my brother.  I wanted to see if emotional scars can be seen through the eyes.   
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Today I thought we would visit something different, still art but from a different perspective. I was in my younger day a Catholic, I started my journey in primary school. After that, I went to a normal school and never went back to my religion for a number of reasons. But what really captivated me was not the religion that I was taught but the massive churches I have been in and the beautiful artworks.  Way before I became interested in art I admired the art and sculptures and the architecture of the churches. The creative approach that people had back then. So today I thought we would look at some of the artwork together. Catholic art consists of all visual pieces of art produced for the church and its religion to spread the word of god. It came in many for such as painting sculpture mosaics needlework metalwork and architecture. Religious art played a leading role in the development of the western society since the fourth century. Documenting the life and times of Jesus, his disc
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Artists invented the first pigments—a combination of soil, animal fat, burnt charcoal, and chalk—as early as 40,000 years ago, Creating a basic palette of five colors: red, yellow, brown, black, and white. Since then, the history of color has been one of perpetual discovery, whether through exploration or scientific advancement. The invention of new pigments accompanied the developments of art history’s greatest movements—from the  Renaissance  to  Impressionism —as artists experimented with colors never before seen in the history of painting. https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3299402437624277126#editor/target=post;postID=3596056252304844658;onPublishedMenu=welcome;onClosedMenu=welcome;postNum=0;src=postname The Cardinal ,  1510 Museo Nacional del Prado Ever since the Medieval times, painters have depicted the V irgin Mary  in a blue robe, choosing the color not for its religious connotations, but rather for its extreme price tag.  Mary’s iconic