Daring to bare with an elegant air of mystery
The painting is drying, the client is happy, and now its time for me to tell you more about this gorgeously erotic mysterious painting. The… Read More »Daring to bare with an elegant air of mystery
The painting is drying, the client is happy, and now its time for me to tell you more about this gorgeously erotic mysterious painting. The… Read More »Daring to bare with an elegant air of mystery
I’m always happy to spend my time with interesting people, and this week has been one of those times. The interesting person was male, and… Read More »I’ve spent my week with a mysterious man in feathers
I’m celebrating two things today – firstly that I have had the problem with the faulty valve fixed in the house this morning, so for the first… Read More »To celebrate my revamped website I’m having a massive half price sale
This week I have a lovely oil painting to do, the canvas has arrived after more than a weeks wait from ordering it, I have… Read More »Not in hot water when I oily want to be
It’s been a long winter, and now the sun is shining, happy painting day! 🙂
Life’s a funny thing. We all meet people who we like, connect with, and get on fine with in a comfortable way. Then one day,… Read More »Re-united under a different time zone
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.
You know, as an artist, deep inside, when a piece of art you create is a good one. I can name all the ones over… Read More »I always knew this drawing was special
Some weeks ago I had an idea for two paintings. Both paintings have a theme, and both excite me a lot with their concept and… Read More »Butterflies and lots of love
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… Read More »Ivanhoe jousting off the grid
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… Read More »Frozen to the bone but don’t artists have to suffer for their art
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… Read More »Eclipsed by dead shadows
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… Read More »From a white nightmare to golden moments
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… Read More »Artistic agonies should be burned with the angst