My top tips for getting into a creative headspace
It can be hard to come in from your normal life and get into a good head space for making art. You can try to do it by having a … Continue reading
Playing with your art, a new medium, a new thread
Art is about making something and reacting for or against it. That is how you start to build upon a simple idea. It doesn’t have to be a process of … Continue reading
Deciding to make ‘Good’ art just doesn’t work.
It’s always a bad idea to decide to make a ‘Good’ piece of art. Firstly, whether something is or isn’t good, is a subjective view. Secondly, ‘Good’ isn’t an idea, it’s a result … Continue reading
Battling Your Art Demons
Making art isn’t always easy. Sometimes it involves a mighty battle against your personal art demons. Not physically, but emotionally. Making art can be hard work. I don’t mean digging trenches … Continue reading
Top six ways to avoid making art.
We all do things to sabotage our art making. Yet we say we want to make some art. It can be hard to see what we are doing to ourselves, … Continue reading
Artquest 4 – overcoming the pain of crummy painting.
It might start out crummy, but if you let that song/ image/ story out of your head it might have a chance to be good. I make a lot of … Continue reading
Priming paper to paint on.
I prime paper to make a cheap painting surface. When you are learning to paint or draw its just not worth using a canvas for every experiment and techniques you’ll learn. … Continue reading
Colour 2: seeing the undertones.
Today’s blog is about being able to see what colours are making up the colour we want to mix. Hopefully you tried the previous colour exercise, in the Colour 1 … Continue reading
My top 6 tips for making art part of your life.
If you make art you are an artist. The tricky bit is being able to make art making, part of your life. I have had plenty of patches in my … Continue reading
You don’t have to cut up a shark to make good art.
Art can be any size. It can be gentle or obnoxious, meaningful or silly. You don’t have to cut up a shark or put one in a tank of formaldehyde … Continue reading
