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Weekly blog
This is a weekly blog about the general processes behind creating paintings, 3d pieces and prints. Please feel free to comment and add your voice to the blog.
Tentative beginnings
Well. The Christmas card finally got done and, as it’s not a particularly Christmassy object I shall run a short edition of 25 in navy blue on japanese print paper. If you would like one of these please mail me for a price. The good news (as far as I’m concerned) is that I have ...
Right! To action!
That’s certainly a decisive headline. One born of the frantic realisation that I have not posted anything in a very long time. This is partly due to the fact that I’ve not painted, engraved,cut, printed or made anything and desperation is starting to set in. So this weekend work gets underway for the annual panic ...
The perfect space
It’s been quite along time since I last added anything to this blog. I had just been on a very good blogging course at Southampton University and was fired up to post on a more regular basis. Sadly my lovely Mother in Law died in early June and everything stopped for a while. We have ...
Ennui
It’s that awful feeling of having time to do the work and then becoming so self-hypercritical that painting becomes a tortuous fight with myself to knuckle down and do something useful. Of course, a deadline helps the process. Sadly, I am not one those artists who feels a twenty four hour compulsion to create images ...
Showing off
I’ve just spent the evening with a bunch of really nice, talented and generous people at the King’s Theatre in Southsea for the first ever ‘Evening of Art’. I’d forgotten how nerve wracking trying to talk about one’s own pictures can be. But it was delightful to meet other artists from the surrounding area and ...
Different colours
I’ve concentrated on acrylic paints for such a long time now that they seem to be second nature to me and I’ve become used to the difficulties of mixing enough paint, fast drying time and ugly paint build ups.But I find that I still struggle with achieving good skin tones and I feel that acrylics ...
The disappearing artwork
One of the main problems with painting pictures is the inevitable fact that, once completed, pictures tend to have to be sold and thereon hangs a problem. I’m not a mass producer of paintings and I tend to live with them for fairly protracted periods of time while they are worked on, changed, panicked over, ...
Where does it come from
Many people who see my pictures ask where the ideas come from. What are my sources of inspiration? Why do I paint what I paint? How do I get the ideas? The process is impossible to sum up in a few paragraphs and there is not really a hard and fast answer to any of ...
Why do I paint?
For years I painted, not at all. I felt guilty when I looked at other artists work and horribly jealous when I went to galleries. I bought books about art and the artists I loved (and still love). I went to exhibitions, I looked at art and I felt lousy. ‘I could do that’ is ...
Getting all the kit
I have always ridiculed the sort of person that, as well as buying the complete wooden box of art materials, also buys the special painting clothes (especially a smock and straw hat). If you feel that you need to dress up specially to paint then I would suggest that perhaps painting is not the right ...
Getting the hang of this stuff..
The site is beginning to take shape and I can see light at the end of the tunnel. Finally working out how to get work into portfolios and projects. Actually it’s not that difficult but it takes a while to get used to a new workflow and there are always the niggly bits where one ...
At last!
After a day of wrestling with unfamiliar stuff like ISPs and trying to get my domain name back , I’ve finally managed to get a new domain and set up this lovely new blogness.
The longest day
This is turning into one of the longest site redesigns in History. It’s been such a busy year so far that I only just seem to have started painting again and without paintings there did seem to be much of a point in modernising the site. However painting has started and the site should start ...
I Decided to continue
I had originally decided just to post blogs for the french exhibition that I had with Steve the photographer in March. However it seems a shame not to blog about what I’m doing on the art front and so I have have decided to start again. Over the next few weeks I’m hoping to turn ...
Day sixteen: Tuesday
A relaxed start from Orléans got us into Paris mid morning. After our previous nightmarish traffic jam and crawl round the peripherique, this was a breeze. I love parisian driving. They are completely uninhibited about lane swapping, diving into tiny spaces and turning off unexpectedly without signalling. There is a verve and brio about their ...