In my last blog post I wrote about the painting session I did for my Ashby Arts Festival board and said that I would show it when it was finished. Well, now it is! I knew when I did my first preliminary sketch on a piece of A4 paper that I wanted the two knights […]
I spent all of yesterday on my hands and knees in a cold unheated warehouse, kneeling on a bare concrete floor. The door to the outside was open, letting in a chill breeze, and cobwebs clung to the roof rafters. The only windows were covered in more cobwebs, and were high up letting in a bit of […]
In a professional context it often happens that private or corporate clients corder a publication to be made and presented with the actual content still not being ready. Think of a news blog that’s filled with content hourly on the day of going live. However, reviewers tend to be distracted by comprehensible content, say, a random text copied newspaper or the internet. The are to focus on the text, disregarding the layout and its elements. Besides, random text risks to be unintendedly humorous or offensive, an unacceptable risk in corporate environments.
If it hadn’t been mentioned yesterday I doubt I would have known there was an eclipse today. But all the hype suggested that it would be worth it, so I thought I’d make sure I didn’t miss it. Fortunately for the East Midlands, it was a beautiful clear morning, and as I had breakfast I kept glancing […]
Sometimes its nice to go off in a new direction, and sometimes its nice to work in a new direction from an old one. Some years ago I did a painting of three white horses leaping and racing by moonlight, in a very loose style of watercolours with lots of movement, and sold it very […]
This week I’ve been agonising over something. And It’s something I shouldn’t be agonising over at all. I’ve been an artist all my life and have painted some incredible paintings. And this week I’ve felt stuck and trapped, and art shouldn’t be like that, certainly not my sort of art. It should be liberating and […]
The thing about being any sort of creative person is direction. And I’ve been focusing on the wrong thing entirely. Just because one person, in one place, who probably wasn’t looking for the thing being offered, said that they didn’t want it, I have let it be a negative in my life this week. What I have […]
Its not been a ……good week. The things I want to do, I have not been able to do. Partly because I am waiting for two other people to get back to me with answers and I hate that *hanging around not sure what’s happening* feeling. I like to have a plan, an aim, a direction […]
I’ve done as many detailed working drawings as I can for the moment regarding Dambuster planes and bombs and am waiting for the client to get back to me with his responses to the logo ideas that I’ve come up with, before I can do any more. And time to catch up on blog posts whilst […]
