Painting

Finding focus in Photography

20th July 2011
End of the Dahlias, Acrylic on Paper, 2010

For a while I have been toying with painting and sculpture in addition to my photography but as a keen amateur artist I have limited time. With the pressures of running a business by day, I don’t have the time to do it all and so something has to give. I will still blog about [...]

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Learning lessons from the Greeks: add interest by avoiding hyper realism

17th May 2011

I found this gem of a clip on YouTube about how the Greek sculptors were the first to use their eyes and create realistic sculptures of the human body, but a generation later, abandoned this altogether to produce exaggerated sculptures of the human body. As Professor Ramachandran explains, within us lies the primal instinct to [...]

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To be creative, be prepared to screw up and take it on the chin

28th March 2011

It’s important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That’s why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3, Wired magazine Following on from my post about when is it the right time to [...]

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When is the right time to exhibit your art online?

21st March 2011

“I had a very strong belief — I still do — that the act of going public is a very important decision. Everything you do from the point when you go public is part of the public record and is out there and you cannot get it back. Anything before the time when you go [...]

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The watercolour renaissance and why you should give it a try

18th March 2011

With watercolour, you can’t cover up the marks. There’s the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well. – David Hockney Coinciding with their latest exhibition at the Tate Britain, the Tate has been doing a fantastic job over the last month promoting Watercolour paining as a medium to [...]

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