Join me for a November challenge to end the year by celebrating and acknowledging the small things that matter, through a miniature painting a day.
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If you ever feel overwhelmed at the blank canvas staring back at you?
Try these 7 ways to simplify your paintings…
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The right kind of tension that can fuel your art, but the wrong kind can stall you in your tracks.
Which kind of tension are you using?
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Stories we tell ourselves can be rewritten and if we delve a little deeper, we may find out they’re untrue in the first place.
Here are 5 art myths I hear all the time and how to debunk them.
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What Makes Your Art Good Enough?
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Practical solutions that make sculpting in clay at home more manageable.
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Practical solutions that make painting easier when obstacles get in your way.
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This one extra word rephrases that entire sentence from one of finality to one of journey – it puts the emphasis progress.
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I have worked across a range of sizes, from larger than life, half scale and miniature and each of these require different considerations, time frames, approaches and tools. What I find most interesting is how our main tool, the body, reacts in such different ways when approaching a particular scale…
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My beautiful late uncle, Derek was like a second father. He taught me many lessons and I conquer up this one each time I get frustrated with an artwork that ‘fails.’
I hope it will help you too.
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2018 has been kind and gifted me with a lot personally and professionally. It’s also delivered some lessons.
Can you resonate with any of these 5 things I’ve learned from another year of making a full time living creatively?
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Mini portraits like this one may be small in size, and appear unassuming or quiet, but the impact they have is huge!
The painting commands a person's full attention asking them to enter it's world. Physically, the viewer begins to move, they lean in, focus and steady themselves as they become silent - it can be very moving to witness.
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It 'dawned' on me that this is actually quite similar to painting. I'm often reminding students to explore the full value range of a colour, not just the lights and mid-tones but to be brave and put that dark value mark down!
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