After the exhibition of last weekend the few days afterwards have been quiet, which is always the way. But, that has given me time to look for the next commission… and there are two in the offing. One, if I understood properly from someones comment last week – whilst he was actually in an involved […]
How do you judge a success – is it the actual things you can tick off – *this happened because I did this* aspect. Or is it the looking for some good out of an action that has been activated. Or am I being blinded by a pattern that is very familiar to me and […]
After writing about the picture  I started at the weekend in the last post, here is the finished version in full and vibrant colour. It was painted in acrylic inks and highlights are picked out in oil pastels. The use of inks means that the picture has a translucency about it as they allow the white of […]
The art workshop I attended over the weekend was entitled “Contemporary Flowers in Acrylic Inks” and whereas flowers are not my favourite subject I always put as much artistic interpretation and endeavour into it as any other subject. The tutor was obviously talented but she quickly said that it was only her second workshop and […]
The thing I love about being an artist is that whenever I meet new people they usually pause a bit when I say I’m an artist, then ask “Can you paint……. ?” and tell me what the thing is that they want me to do for them. And my answer is always “Yep, I can […]
At the weekend I attended my first half marathon. I wasn’t running in it you understand (!) but my fellas son was, and since it was in Lichfield which isn’t that far away from us we went along to cheer him on accompanied with my fellas ex wife – who I get on very well with, […]
Being of the opinion that if I’d doing a job, I’ll do it to the best of my ability, the last two days have been spent careering around the beautiful surrounding countryside looking for more places to take my artist adverts. Its been a bit like doing a treasure hunt, setting the sat nav to […]
