Category: Visual arts
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In living colour
About a week ago I watched a quilt trunk show where a presenter came and showed a collection of her quilts to an audience. Then just yesterday I shared a photograph of a cat in the forest on social media. I think it works well as a photograph, but it reminded me of how often…
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This Painting or That One?
I think all artists need a mean streak. When we produce a body of work we need to be able to take something that has been worked on, long and hard, and turn around and end it. Maybe even destroy all evidence of it’s existence. This may sound harsh. Anyone watching will find it hard…
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Artists, stay safe!
This week I went back to the studio in town to paint for the first time in months. It’s a big bright airy room that I use when I want to paint on canvas with acrylic paint. I like to use mediums to change the surface qualities and/or create textures and have enjoyed exploring the…
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Red Flower’s Dancing
Many years ago (and here is where it is important to remember to document your work especially if you, like me, don’t like to put a date on the front your finished work) I created this mixed media drawing called ‘Red Flower Dance’. The best record I have comes from a digital image of this…
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The AI algorithms and me
Tags ‘It was a dark and dreary day, but I didn’t let it stay that way’. That should be my caption for the photo above. I am always drawn to this view but the day and the time of year does not show that. So the image below is what I changed it into; And…
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October and choices
It’s October and once again I don’t know where the first half of the month went. Projects are firming up in my mind and as always there are too many of them. I’ve always been an ‘idea’ person. No problem at all thinking of things to do. The big problem for me has always been…