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The Positives and Pitfalls of Writing an Artist Statement
Many artists complain about writing an artist statement and some even refuse. For visual people finding and organizing words into paragraphs to describe the multi-dimensional flow of variables that come together when they are creating seems impossible. However the...
My Favourite Art Product, The Pigment Stick
Artists are often asked which art products they couldn't possibly do without. So I thought I would share with you the most inspensible and well used item in my studio. The Pigment Stick. Doesn't sound exciting I know, but believe me, once you have used them you will...
Incredible Oil Painting in 5 Hours
I have promised that I would start working on my video production a little more to desmonstate to all you wonderful people how I create my artworks, in particular my oil paintings which happens to be my specialty. It would be quite a boring video if I was to sit a...
Do You Need an Artist Painting Group?
Painting is essentially a fairly solitary occupation. Not lonely at all, but mostly it's just you, the canvas and the cat. To save your sanity it's a really good idea to link up with other artists to paint together as a group. Not only is an artist painting...
Surfing Cows – Andrew Baines, Surrealist Painter
I'm not a great one for surrealist paintings - until I came across the very talented Andrew Baines. Immediately I was captivated by his wonderful paintings of everyday things taken out of context - men in bowler hats and suits in the surf, hills hoists on the beach,...
Mansfield Easter Art Show
Starting Friday and running until Easter Monday, is the Mansfield Easter Art Show. Curated by Without Pier Gallery, it has been running for many years but this year is the first time I have submitted a full quota of 6 paintings. Being a rural area, I tried to paint...
Little Marks That Make A Painting: The Neo-Impressionists
I just scraped in to see the 'Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists' exhibition at the NGV in Melbourne before it closed. I wasn't really sure what Neo-Impressionism was, but found out (a little history lesson here) that it was the movement in France and Belgium from the...
10 Tips to Inspire and Excite your Art
One of my favourite artists is Shirley Trevena. She is a British watercolourist of immense talent and I have long admired her use of strong colours which really push the medium to its limits. I was therefore interested to read that she felt she had become bored and...
Cows
I have long had a slight obsession with cows. I know it's strange but they are such beautiful, gentle creatures and I do love to paint them. So a recent visit to the very scenic southern coastal areas of Victoria was much anticipated. The reason? It's a major cow...
