Painting Demonstrations are usually nerve wracking but great fun too. I recently gave a demo at the Eastwood Art Club in Glasgow. A landscape with a bright colour palette was created in less than two hours. the painting needs a little more work and will be shown on this website soon.
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Art therapy in it's simplest form. Pencil drawing has been a real help, along with the wonderful music of Rachel Portman as this artist tries to work through a twisted and very painful knee. Pencil drawing is suited to sitting in the one place and creating this graphite on paper sketch of my neice is the latest in a new series of drawings.
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Debbie Harry pencil drawing on paper discussed in addition to the experience of painting demonstrations in front of an art club.
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Glasgow art exhibitions seem to be thick on the ground at the moment, no doubt witht the approach of Christmas. Following on the heels of the WASPS Open Studios last month, the Parade Artists group at tthe studios where I am based are joining in the forthcoming multitude of Glasgow art exhibitions and we are holding an event which spans two weekends at tthe end of...
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New Art – Well, New To Me New art has been coming along in the studio in between various events over the past few months. As we head in to the silly season, an d I do find it very silly indeed, I find that it has traditionally become a time for me to press on with developing my work whilst the studios are a bit quieter. New art in a new month meant of course the...
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Boxing Art Boxing art has been a subject I return to now and again. There’s something quite arresting about a boxing image, as if just by looking at it you might get punched in the face. I like any artwork that creates a more intense emotion in the viewer. This one was started almost a year ago. He is oil on board and went all around the houses as I changed the...
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Painting, Christopher Hitchens & Other News Painting has ceased for a while and it’s more than three weeks since I have blogged -after a second email asking me what I was up to, was I still painting, and so I thought it was time I got typing. Blogging, like painting, goes through fits and starts and I have still been painting away in the background whilst not...
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New Art – New Faces New art has been on my mind, I think it comes with the territory with a new year. Over the holiday period I was painting several days. If you have read elsewhere the way in which I create artwork, then you will know that I paint on several canvases simultaneously. I love painting this way, I don’t know if this is a method of aleviating...
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David Hockney Tree Art David Hockney was on the main News the other evening: which I thought was interesting. It made a change from all the current doom and gloom and it’s not all that often that the likes of David Hockney appear on current news programmes. Hockney was described as the “greatest living British artist” which immediately took me back too...
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Pencil Drawings – Back to Basics Pencil drawings took up a lot of my time as a teenager. In fact, after being forced to study German at School, I rebelled by sitting sketching in my languages class for two years. I have regretted that a couple of times when visiting Colone howver and having to make flapping movements at taxi drivers whilst shouting...
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It can be difficult for artists to return to the canvas after working towards a big event or an enforced break. Also discussed here: why does this website keep changing its appearance?
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This years Open Studios at WASPS in Glasgow is now over and what a weekend it was. After a slow start because of the rain it was non stop and I loved every minute of it. Lots of artwork left my studio, which is greatly appreciated. On a sad note however, The Open Studios weekend was to be the last for Cafe Sejuiced which had to close its doors once the weekend was over.
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