Acrylic Paint for Artists
ARTIST'S ACRYLIC PAINT Rowney introduced Cryla Colour into the UK in 1963. That was the first time British artists could experiment with...
Flat Art…Paintings and Prints.
Flat Art…Paintings and Prints. Paintings and prints are the main categories of flat art that are recognized and collected worldwide. OK I...
STIFFY BAGS and OTHER WONDERS
STIFFY BAGS ETC. Today I am writing about some of the incredible innovative improvements that have happened in my 50 plus years of art...
SKETCHING or PHOTOGRAPHY for REFERENCE
I paint cityscapes, among other things, and I want to base my paintings on real views. So in my studio I certainly need reference...
AN ARTISTS MANIFESTO
ARTISTS MANIFESTO One of the interesting things about being an artist is that some of us have produced and published a manifesto. I...
CAVE ART … new evidence
CAVE PAINTING Last year I wrote an article about the cave paintings in Lasceaux France. That blog post was mostly about the pigments...
DOODLING DOODLES
Doodles are visual evidence of thought happenings. If you have an artist inside you maybe you doodle when you have pen or pencil and...
ACRYLIC versus WATER COLOUR or OIL PAINT
ACRYLIC versus WATER COLOUR or OIL PAINT... I wrote a blog piece about oils, acrylics and watercolour paints about a year ago. [LINK]....
THE INFLUENCE and IMPORTANCE OF PATRONAGE
PATRONAGE The subject of this post follows on a previous blog post focusing on the influential reasons for making art. That article was...
RELIGION IN ART
RELIGION IN ART ‘Religious art or sacred art is artistic imagery using religious inspiration and motifs and is often intended to uplift...
