Art classes
I’ll shortly be starting to give art lessons again in real life and online. If you’d like to join in, it would be really helpful if you can reply and tell me what you’d like to do and when you’re free. I can teach online and in real life, in groups...
The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed – Book Review
I love a facsimile reproduction of an old book, and this book on drawing (and art in general) by Harold Speed is no exception. It’s at once both firmly rooted in its time and a giver of timeless advice for artists and art lovers. Harold Speed (1872 – 1957)...
I’m going back to university
My big news is that I’m about to go back to university to study for an MA in Fine Art. I applied last year and was accepted just before lockdown. I have spent lockdown wondering whether or not the course would go ahead, but it is, and I am negotiating the...
Getting my eye in with Zoom online drawing
I have been a bit slack with the blog posts, I think it’s the heat, it makes me struggle to get much done, and my oil paints have been melting horribly, but I have still been painting. I felt a bit blocked with the dancing paintings, they have been quite a...
More dance paintings
I have been really enjoying painting dancers. There’s something about the combination of the human body in motion and its expressive power combined with music that really appeals to me and draws together things I am interested in (I wrote about this in my blog...Have I helped you?
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