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Learn more UPDATE for listeners: I hope you enjoy the other episodes so far in this podcast. This episode has bee taken down for the time being, until a new one can be re-recorded: there were unexpected problems with the audio that made it seem best just to start again later!

In Episode 2, we discuss the elements of mastery in painting, and look to Nicholas Hilliard, Beatrix Potter, George Stubbs, Tom Hoffmann, and others for pointers. Books referred to in this episode: Elizabethan Treasures by Catharine MacLeod (National Portrait Gallery, 2019); The Art of Beatrix Potter by Emily Zach (Chronicle Books, 2016); George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue Raisonné by Judy Egerton (Yale University Press, 2007); Watercolor Painting: A Comprehensive Approach to Mastering the Medium by Tom Hoffmann (Watson-Guptill, 2012); How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov (Bloomsbury, 2007).