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Old Jewish Tailor Woman
The first job I ever had was in high school working in the afternoon for an elderly Jewish woman who was a tailor. Her work consisted mainly of repairing the tattered garments of the residents of the...
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I Had The Key
click image to enlargeMy daughter called me last night and told me to go outside and look at the stars, because there was an alignment of the moon and two planets. It was late. I stood on the sidewalk...
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Pythagoras's Theorem
click image to enlargeDownload this drawing. Then put it in a nice frame and hang it in your child’s room. Then wait and see what happens.Dimensions: 7.25” x 6.75” Materials: pencil and acrylic paint...
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The Square Root of 2
click image to enlargeThis is what my father was like. One day when I was twelve I went with him on Saturday morning to my Aunt Mary’s house to have coffee. While we were having coffee my father said,...
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Engraved and Gilded Math Homework
click image to enlargeI check the oil in my car all the time, like a ritual. And even though it is a ritual, I never remember to have a piece of cloth, or a paper towel to wipe the dip stick on. I look...
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West Side Highway
click image to enlargeThe elements of this painting are:1.The coast of New Jersey2.The Hudson River3.A barge4. Some docks5. The West Side Highway.The coast of New Jersey, the river and the barges have...
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Lost in the South Bronx
click image to enlargeThis detailed drawing is done from my memory of being lost in the South Bronx. Since this happened to me more than once there are a lot of accumulated images that I have managed...
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While Putting on her Lipstick
click image to enlargeUsually when I begin a drawing I know exactly what it is I am going to draw, and how I am going to compose it. At other times I will have a lot of ideas floating around in my head...
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Midnight West of Denver
click image to enlargeMIDNIGHT WEST OF DENVERI felt sorry for Raymond when I got that letter that I posted with yesterday’s drawing. Like so many highly educated people, he approaches old works of art...
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Their House was on a Pedestal
In order to do this little painting on gilded paper, first I had to attach some 23 karat gold to the paper. This has been done since ancient and medieval times by various methods. The method I used...
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Faraway Look
It’s math class in grade school. The teacher says “I have five apples and I buy five more apples, now how many apples do I have, Johnny?” Johnny says, “I can’t answer the question because I don’t like...
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I Was Born in Utica
Like everyone else I am very egocentric. I imagine that upon very careful and thoughtful analysis, the place where I live will turn out to be the center of the universe. And after all how is one to...
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The Metropolitan
This is a difficult perspective because the lines across the face of the drawing recede at such a slight angle that the vanishing point that they converge to is out of range of a ruler, or even a yard...
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Fear Of Flying
I flew to Europe once. The plane took off at dinner time and by two in the morning we were somewhere over the mid-Atlantic. I was very afraid of flying and sat wide awake, staring out of the window. I...
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2017 Broadway, The Ansonia
I am not a New Yorker. This fact came home to me very vividly the first time I ever entered a gallery in New York hoping to interest it’s director in my work. I chose a gallery which was exhibiting...
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A Berkshire Sampler
I call this drawing a Berkshire sampler because it contains nine small sketches of things or places in Berkshire County that are particularly interesting or beautiful. Berkshire County is in Western...
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Portrait of Amy Climo, from directions of Cennini
click image to enlargeRichard Britell "Amy Climo" acrylic and silver point on copper panel, 8" x 5.5" 2010From "The Crafteman's Handbook", of Cennino CenniniHow you Should Regulate Your Life in the...
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Article 7
Richard Britell, "Fox and Parking Meter", oil on canvas 30" x 48", February, 2010Things in this painting: A red fox, two urns, a parking meter, a fire hydrant, and a parked car. The parked car is out...
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Fear of Gypsies
This is a work in progress. Julia Britell is the model, but the features have been adjusted to fit the idea of the painting. When Julia was a child she was afraid of gypsies. This fear was aggravated...
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The Dakota, 72nd Street, New York City
This is an original drawing in pencil. The paper is not white, it has been tinted with watercolor to a light tan similar to the trim color of the building. This style of drawing is considered an...
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Cathedral of Notre Dame De Brebieres, wash drawing on prepared paper
This is an original drawing on prepared paper of the cathedral called Notre Dame of Brebieres, which was destroyed in World War I and later rebuilt. The drawing measures 8.6" x 6.2", and is signed and...
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A Victim Of The French Revolution
Click Image To EnlargeThe thing about architecture of this period is that every square inch of the edifice was attended to with the same minute devotion. This drawing approaches the subject with the...
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Northampton Skyline Near Smith College
Click image to enlargeThis drawing is of the Northampton skyline near Smith college. The tower with the flag is the bell tower at the entrance of the college. The view is from State Street, near the...
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Drawing Amiens Cathedral, Richard Britell
The drawing is on cold press watercolor paper which was prepared with gesso, and a wash of a very light tint of watercolor. Because of the gesso preparation the heavier marks have almost an engraved...
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Drawing Amiens Cathedral, detail above the portal, drawing
"The Fourteen Saints", Amiens Cathedral, above the portal, 10" x 13.625", Richard Britell June 2012The drawing is on cream color, 100% rag paper. I used only an hb, and a 2h pencil in this work. The...
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