Big paint brushes, all artists have to use them at some point. Well, painters certainly, so often artists look for small brushes and fear using anything larger, especially when starting out. It depends on personality, that’s true, but fear of using large brushes comes with a lot of frustrations. Not least how to prevent hard […]
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Abstraction in a painting of City Hall in London Looking back, it’s possible to see progress that isn’t obvious while you were living through the time. This painting of City Hall in London is one of my early large paintings. Now, I can see how my style has evolved over the years, and with practice.
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Today’s video is a Houses of Parliament Painting creation. Rainbow Palace was created a while ago so I’m reliving it’s creation as I post it. This is a different use of video for me, I hope you enjoy it! After creating a painting I spend time with it and write my thoughts in the form
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For Saturday Night Live Art Shows, this week, I’m looking at a Natural History Museum painting titled Natural History Graffiti. Inspired while waiting in a queue to visit the museum on a Friday during Half term. It’s well worth a visit, but take my advice. Never visit any London museum during school holidays, if you
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This Salt pot is a wonderful example of how waste becomes art, in some cases. Over a period of two and a half years all the salt removed from my paintings went into this little pasta jar. Every time I use salt in the painting process, I must remove it. Otherwise the salt reacts and
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What’s happening in this Keble College Painting? Keble College elicits mixed reactions, some love it. Others think it a vulgar display of showy architecture, or some such thought. Personally, I like it, and grew to respect it more when I created these Keble College paintings. Researching why it looks like it does, I made a
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