Monoprinting with Inktense makes beautiful art
Monoprinting with Inktense on the most rigourously pretreated paper has produced my favourite abstract works so far. Solving problems increased creativity.
14/08/2023
Creating Art Around Life
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Balancing a Hectic Life AND creating art is tough, but it can be done! Purshing through obstacles and getting back into the studio to create meaningful art is a big part of of who I've become in the past 30 years
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How to make art when Life Gets Complicated
What do you do when life gets complicated and you don’t feel like you be making art anytime soon? Here’s practical ways to prevail.
06/08/2023
Discover 3 important creative truths in the art studio
Discover three important creative truths that have help me to thrive in the studio this year, starting with my current ‘Red Playground’ collection.
30/07/2023
Uplifting transformation with pigment ink
The uplifting transformation with pigment ink is fully on display bringing cohesion to the developing batik-like appearance.
22/07/2023
Truth is, creating art is a strange allegory of life
The very act of creating art is a strange allegory of life. At least, that’s the way I see it, as I push through on difficult new work in the studio.
15/07/2023
The 4 problems I solved creating on really rough paper
One excellent way to boost creativity is to solve problems that are sure to arise from making artwork on really rough paper.
08/07/2023
5 Simple ways to get new ideas from older works
Getting new ideas from older works is a good way to boost creativity whilst creating a contiguous and cohesive body of works.
02/07/2023
How to Analyse Your Art Work
You can analyse your art work to better understand the success of a finished work and learn to talk about your work using the language of art.
23/06/2023
Bold or Confronting?
Bold or Confronting?? By using my chisel point pigment pen have I’ve made ‘Red Playground-Finish what you started’ simply bold or largely confronting.
12/06/2023