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Tell us about your art
Are you an artist or a crafter? I'd love to know about your work, what motivates you and any top tips you have so I can feature you on this blog. I've made a short questionnaire on survey monkey if you'd like to take part. I'll use the surveys to create blog posts...
Planning a watercolour painting
When you're planning a painting in watercolour (rather than a study or a practice piece), it's really important to work out how you will tackle it. You need to think about highlights, light and dark, texture and detail and what order you're going to paint them, as...
Painting progress
I'm still working on my series of paintings from my sketch trip to Leeds. After all the studies and the alla prima heads I drew and painted I've got to bite the bullet, stop procrastinating and get stuck in to the main pieces. Exhibition! The big news, and the main...
New – Commission oil paintings on paper
As I've been painting lots of them, I thought I'd add oil on paper portraits to the selection of commissions that I offer. You can have a look in my online gallery in the 'portraits' section at the paintings marked 'Oil on paper' to see what I've been up to. I paint...
News, exhibitions and updates
New website shop for Kristin Rawcliffe Art
There's a new shop on my website to let you buy paintings, drawings, prints, cards and lessons directly from me. Original art I've listed some oil paintings from my 'Passions' exhibition, and some oil paintings on paper, but I will be adding more paintings and...
A visit to Windsor Contemporary Art Fair
I visited Windsor Contemporary Art Fair on Saturday 10th November 2018. I had intended to apply to take part in it but had too much work on this year. As I'll be taking part in Surrey Contemporary Art Fair in March, I thought I'd take the opportunity to have a look...
Ideas for new work
Well, the exhibition is over, I'm just about recovered from the lurgy, so it's time to start thinking about my next series of work. One of the main things I learned from my exhibition was how satisfying it is to work in series so I do want to make sure I keep doing...
My experience of my first solo exhibition
From 16-20 October my exhibition 'Passions - Superpowers of everyday people' was shown in London at Nolias Gallery, Bankside. Artistic UK presented the exhibition, hung it, and supported me through it. Private View Private view is a bit of a misnomer as...
Kristin Rawcliffe
Artist